Using MFDeploy without installing Visual Studio

We are using the netduino plus 2 with .NETMF 4.3 in our application and are are communicating with a Windows PC.

 

For the limited number of deployed systems, we would like to provide the ability of a sophisticated user to redeploy the hex file image using MFDeploy.  The twist is that we don't want to install Visual Studio on all of the deployed system PCs - we only want to install and use MFDeploy.

 

When I attempt to install MFDeploy, or really the .NETMF SDK, it requires that I have Visual Studio installed. 

 

So the question is whether there is a way to install MFDeploy without Visual Studio? 

 

For example, could we just copy the components of MFDeploy from another installation and relocate them on a PC without Visual Studiio.  If this is possible, then which components are needed?

 

Thanks for your help...

Hi LTWert, We just copy and paste the MFDeploy executables to the destination computer. You'll also need to install the Netduino drivers, and you'll want to have .NET installed on the PC so MFDeploy can run. Chris