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copied!<p>I can see from your <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/14988709/165500">other post</a> that the framework you are referring to is the XNA framework.</p> <p><strong>You're <em>really</em> not supposed to be distribute Microsoft DLLs as loose files!</strong> You're supposed to distribute the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><b>XNA redistributable</b></a> only!</p> <p>Using the DLLs without installing them properly can lead to various problems on end-user machines. And distributing them as loose files is against the EULA!</p> <hr> <p>Speaking as a Microsoft MVP for XNA (yes, we still exist, for now):</p> <p>The official word from Microsoft is that XNA is still "supported". Basically this means that <strong>XNA is not suddenly going to break!!!</strong></p> <p>The XNA framework installer will remain available from Microsoft's website. (Just like, for example, this <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=96" rel="nofollow noreferrer">decade old</a> framework download). You'll still be able to reference it from your installer (eg: ClickOnce). But, if you don't want to require the download, you can distribute the installer yourself (hence: "redistributable").</p> <p>It will still install successfully on all current versions of Windows. And should continue to install on future versions of Windows.</p> <hr> <p>The recent <a href="http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/directxxna-phase-out-continues/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hullabaloo</a> you may have heard about XNA is simply that Microsoft has made it public that XNA is no longer in development. All this means is that there will be no future versions. The existing versions <strong>will still work!</strong></p>

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