Installation

Install the NETLink directory into your AddOns directory

.NET/Link is already installed in Mathematica 5.0 and later. If you download an update to .NET/Link for use with Mathematica 5.0 and later, simply replace the existing <Mathematica dir>\AddOns\NETLink directory with the new one.

If you downloaded .NET/Link to install into Mathematica 4.x, place the NETLink directory into your <Mathematica dir>\AddOns\Applications directory. Note that this location is different than in Mathematica 5.0.

You also need to be sure that you have J/Link 3.0 or later, which first became available in September 2004 and shipped with Mathematica 5.1. Although .NET/Link does not use Java in any way, it shares some Mathematica code with J/Link. You can get the latest J/Link for any version of Mathematica from the J/Link home page.

The .NET/Link assembly, Wolfram.NETLink.dll, is not a strong-named assembly and therefore cannot be placed into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). In previous versions of .NET/Link, the assembly was strong-named and was placed into the GAC by the Mathematica installer.

Get the .NET Framework

.NET/Link requires Version 1.1 of the .NET Framework. The easiest way to install the .NET Framework, if you do not already have it, is to get it from the Windows Update website. If you do not have the correct version of the .NET Framework, you will get a message telling you so when you first call InstallNET.