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Compiling VB.net apps to work without framework?


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I know this is an incredibly big long shot, but I figured it was worth putting out here on neowin.net nonetheless.

I saved up a lot of money and bought a license to Visual Studio.net. However, I am in a situation where I need to create a program for an environment that does not have a .net framework (nor can one be installed). It's an incredibly basic program, is there any way to create a program in Visual Basic that will work without the framework using my copy of Visual Studio .net?

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If it's *that* simple, let me know and I'll whip out a copy of VB 6 and make it for you really quick :p

Hehe, thanks but no thanks.

Don't worry about it guys, I'm getting my hands on VB 6 license at work temporarily so I whip up the program.

I knew that there was no way to compile a VB 6 application using VB.net (the framework being such a core component and all), I was just wondering if in the 10+ VS.net CD's there might be something I could write the code in and compile for VB 6.

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There are still runtime requirements with VB 6 to take into account.

Agreed but those runtimes are present on the machines.

cant u just do it in VC++.net if its simple

Still learning C. C++ is way over my head for now.

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And that would help... how? Doesn't VC++.net still require the .net framework?

I think he meant Visual C++ since applications built with it usually don't require any runtimes.

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Just curious, why exactly can't you install the .NET Framework on these machines?

Insufficient privileges. The admins for our network have really made a mess of it, profiles for all the applications we use are not roaming which means everytime we switch PC's (which is a lot, as is the nature of the company I work for) we have to set up the profiles from scratch all over again, which takes anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes. The profiles are stored locally on each workstation, so all this program does is prompt for a username, at which point it grabs the profiles of the user and stores it in a folder on the network. Once it's been run once, the programs function expands to being able to grab those stored profiles from the network drive and copy them to the relevant folders on the hard drive of the workstation that the user is currently sitting at.

Again, it's pretty simple, but it will save a LOT of time.

I am not employed by this company to do this kind of thing, which is why I don't have sufficient privileges to roll out the .net framework to the workstations that need it.

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