Security Warning

[AP]

I'm thinking of installing Visual Studio Express 2010 to create and
distribute a light standalone .exe application.

But I've been told that such an .exe application will trigger an
"Unknown Publlisher" security warning on most PC's, unless a lot of
money is paid every year to maintain a certificate.

I'm just wondering if there is a cheap or free way around this, or if
this is a "feature" that all VB users must get used to ?

 

[Cor]

Strange, can you elaborate more, by instance witch 3rd party component.

This is certainly no standard behaviour, but Visual Studio Express is the
confusing name of the Express web designer, so how is this related to VB.

 

[Phill W.]

I'm thinking of installing Visual Studio Express 2010 to create and
distribute a light standalone .exe application.

So long as by "stand-alone" you mean one that requires the umpteen
megabytes of the .Net Framework to be installed, then yes.

But I've been told that such an .exe application will trigger an
"Unknown Publlisher" security warning on most PC's, unless a lot of
money is paid every year to maintain a certificate.

Told by whom?
If you write a program that requires "elevated" permissions (those that
pop up the dreaded UAC dialog) then yes; you'll be "announced" to the
user as an "Unknown Publisher" unless you sign your code with a
[genuine] certificate, i.e. one that costs real, cash money.

However, if you write your program [properly] so that it "plays well"
with Windows and /avoids/ do anything "powerful", then no; you won't get
challenged by UAC so you don't need to sign your code.

You probably /should/, but you don't /need/ to.

HTH,
Phill W.