Microsoft's Senior Vice President Eric Rudder announced the unveiling of the final release of the .NET Framework 3.0 at a recent keynote at TechEd: Developers conference in Barcelona, Spain.

"The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software component which can be added to the Microsoft Windows operating system. It provides a large body of pre-coded solutions to common program requirements, and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering, and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform."

To install the "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package" download "dotnetfx3setup.exe". Of coure it's possible to create a simple application object and to do an installation installation by using the default switches /q and /norestart: 

But there's a more subtle, MSI-based way, of doing. Just open the "dotnetfx3setup.exe" file in WinZIP or a dearchiver of your choice. Unzip the complete archive to your installation directory and then look for the "vs_setup.msi" file. Then create a MSI-only application object, based on the vs_setup.msi file, and deploy the application to your end-users.

Don't be surprised if you see both the 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 version of the .NET Framework in your Add/Remove Programs. This is all because of backwards compatibility:

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