I am writing a console application which we are writing to be deployed with the installation of an application. The purpose of the console app is to fix a bug in Vista which will allow our application to install properly on Vista. The console application works fine, but can I trust the .NET framework that is installed on all Vista machines - is it installed by default?
According to:
Windows Vista Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, but version 1.1 is not, which may still be required by some applications
So if your console app targets v 2.0 or v 3.0 then You should be OK