Dentrix Magazine Q2 2016 Jul. 2016 | Page 10

Product Management Read This Before You Update to .NET Framework 4.6 Dentrix has released a compatibility update for .NET Framework 4.6. E arlier this year, Microsoft began automatically distributing a new version of their .NET Framework (.NET 4.6.1) through Windows Updates. This version of .NET Framework, which was previously available only in Windows 10, removed functionality that was used by the Dentrix Chart, Treatment Planner, Document Center, and Questionnaires modules. As a result of the changes, if .NET 4.6 or higher was installed on any Figure 1 Some Dentrix modules would computer running no longer open after .NET Framework Dentrix, the Dentrix was updated. modules listed above would no longer open but would instead display an error message (Figure 1). To address this issue for Dentrix G5.2 and G6 customers, Henry Schein released the Dentrix compatibility update for .NET 4.6. (Dentrix G6.1 and higher already included the update.) This software patch allows Dentrix to work correctly 6 | www.Dentrix.com/Magazine whether you are running the older or newer version of Microsoft .NET Framework. The compatibility update is small and very easy to install. No database conversion is required, and a computer restart is usually not required as long as you close any error messages first. After running the compatibility update on one computer, t he update is automatically pushed out to the other computers on the network. Many of you have already received and installed the compatibility update. If you have not installed it, we highly recommend that you do so. You can find instructions on how to do this by visiting the Dentrix Resource Center and reviewing article 80353. It is important that you install this update before you update to .NET 4.6 or higher. It is equally important, once you have installed this update, to work with your hardware technician to install .NET Framework 4.6 or higher. For more information about .NET Framework 4.6, visit www.microsoft. com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49982. BRAD ROYER Dentrix Product Manager