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I want to create an application that opens a program that I have installed on my computer when I press a button on my form, e.x "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2007\Acad.exe\". What object or methods should I use

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  • JohnD74

    Please tell me very specifically what it is that you are requesting



  • Doogshnooglis

    If you mean "create a program that doesn't use the .Net Framework", then the answer is NO.  However, you can create an installation package that allows you to easily deploy to another computer with the Framework (AND install the Framework if it isn't there).  Not quite "standalone", but as close as you're going to get.

  • JawKnee

    In Visual Basic 6 was a command Make .exe to create a standalone exe for the project I codded.

    I need the same thing in VB.NET.

  • c_shah

    Thank you very much....

    Can anyone tell me how to create a stand alone exe for my program in Visual Basic Net Express


  • Rajesh batchu

    Hi Squire,

    Being an old VB6 user I think I understand what he's taking about. My trouble is remembering what it's like to a build without a Setup project.

    Main Menu Build | Build Project Name

    Should do it. As in VB, look under Bin/release

    Properly speaking, there is utterly no such thing as "standalone image" in Dot Net.

    A new user will be horrified to learn -

    The the "code" is partially compiled and optimized psuedo code or intermediate language.

    At run time this is incrementally compiled into memory

    Then it excutes in conjuction with the Framework.

    Just to run that poor program... an enormous number of images is executed, so there is no standalone image. Nor for that matter was there in VB6 either.

    Good luck.



  • Yitzhak Khabinsky

    Yeah, the days of fitting many programs on a 720 K single-density 5.25 inch floppy disk are over.  Such thoughts make me feel like an old man even though I haven't quite cracked 40 yet.  I can imagine someone 25 years from now laughing at us and our mere gigabytes of memory and storage... why Windows Vista 2022 (planned for release in 2030) takes up 15 exobytes for their Internet stuff alone!

    (Of course, by then everything is really "Internet stuff"!  It's almost there now.)

     

     

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