Exe Size

[Miro]

Just a thought - not to be a big discussion.

Im still fiddling with vb.net 2k5 express.... but just ponderd the question
of how big anyone's exe has gotten that actually has an application that is
out there being used commercially.

I just wanna compare it to some progs written here that are not in vb.net
and see what big apps end up as.

Thanks,

Miro

 

[lord.zoltar]

Just a thought - not to be a big discussion.

Im still fiddling with vb.net 2k5 express.... but just ponderd the question
of how big anyone's exe has gotten that actually has an application that is
out there being used commercially.

I just wanna compare it to some progs written here that are not in vb.net
and see what big apps end up as.

Thanks,

Miro

It's a tough thing to compare... a developer could embed all of their
images and other media files in the resource file, I think this would
result in a fairly large exe (assuming the sum of all media is
relatively large). Of course, the same project could probably be done
with all the resources in seperate folders and then loaded by code,
when they are needed. So the same program could have different .EXE
sizes depending on how resources are handled. I'm sure there's other
factors too...

A more meaningful comparison would probably be "size of final
installation"... But again it depends on the type of application. games
such as UT2K4 (approx 5GB, as I recall) shouldn't even be compared to
stuff such as database access programs (one of the ones I'm working on
comes in at 1 MB, including all image resources and help files).

 

[Tim Patrick]

I just converted an enterprise application from VB6 to VB2005. The compiled
VB6 file was just over 9MB. In .NET, the compiled "release" file is a little
under 4MB. I'm happy.

 

[Miro]

Thanks,

That is what I was looking for.

Just a generic 9 meg / 4 meg is what I was looking for.

I appreciate it.

Miro