I'm fairly certain of this; if the XP loader understood the format what would it do without the runtime installed? In .NET Server the runtime comes baked in, so the loader can do the handoff there.
-John http://www.iunknown.com -----Original Message----- From: Brad Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Windows Software Restriction Policies and CAS John Lam wrote: > My question is: how is this handoff managed? I know that under > Windows.Net Server that the Windows loader understands the managed PE > file format, so presumably this is how they did it under Windows.Net > Server. However, the Windows XP doesn't understand managed PE files > natively. How is it handled under XP? Are you sure? I'm 99% sure that XP understands managed files natively, even though it didn't ship with the .NET framework installed. Brad -- Read my web log at http://www.quality.nu/dotnetguy/ You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
