Microsoft with Visual Studio 2005 and their .Net 3.0 went together with their Side-By-Side assemblies (WinSxS) which should make life of deploying applications to different Windows system easier. So far I have been only having a big problem with it, because no single program compiled with VS2005 can be used on a system where VS2005 has not been installed. Of course, one can somehow download SxS redistributable binaries, but how to find them on MSDN website is a one big mystery. Another thing is that applications do not complain what is wrong, they just do not start at all. Or sometimes they say "A program could not be started". Great!  read more »