help with vb.net exe file

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I have an application that i m working on that on my machine i can run the exe file from the debug folder just fine. Lets say i copy that folder to another machine i try and open it but it wont ever open. Is there another way to create a single exe file? i dont want to have to create an installer i just want to be able to copy the exe file to 5 other seats to use it. I have one dll file and i registered it on the other computer prior to running the application but still cant open the file.

Is there a way to turn a whole project in visual studio 2010 into one exe file?

Posted 2-Apr-12 8:05am

Zachary.shupp

Updated 2-Apr-12 8:23am

ZurdoDev

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ZurdoDev 2-Apr-12 14:15pm

It IS one exe file, but no, I am not familiar with any tools that will embed the dll into the exe as well. Did you look in the event viewer? If you can run it from your debug folder you should be able to run it elsewhere. Do you get an error?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Apr-12 14:19pm

There are such tools, found in CodeProject. I think OP first need to clearly understand what assemblies and executable files do in principle, before going to tricky or advanced solutions.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Apr-12 14:17pm

Why "debug folder"? Where is your Release configuration? Why would you "register" a DLL on some machine? What, is it not the .NET assembly? What would be "another way". There is only one way: copy the content of your output directory. Don't you have all files needed to run already?
--SA

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-02T08:45:00

The first thing you need to check is that the other machine has the appropriate .NET framework installed - if it doesn't then very little that you do will have any effect.
However, a version of the framework (2.0) was installed from Vista onwards (Win7 has V3.5) so if you target your application at 1.0 or 2.0 then it would be able to run on either of those OS, but not on XP. Of course, that means that you would have to code without the goodies added by later versions! :laugh: