Visual Basic .NET Standard Edition Applications - Executability?

[John]

Hello,

Some of you might recognise me from the VB6 newsgroups.
I just got a book, that includes VB .NET Standard Edition. I'm currently
using VB6 standard / learning edition. I would like to upgrade or whatever
you want to call it, by installing the VB .NET that I have now. However, the
book says that if you make executionables with VB .NET _Standard_ Edition,
they won't run on any pc if that pc doesn't have VB .NET installed (Talking
VB .NET 2003 here). In other words, I would not be able to make executables
for ie my friends / family if they don't have VB .NET like I do.
Could anyone tell me whether or not this is true? Because if it is, I'm
gonna return the book, and stick with VB6, as I can at least distribute my
apps with that program. I'm suspecting the book is basing it's info on some
poor English translation (I'm dutch, and so is the book) and that it means
you need .NET framework / some .NET files which you CAN redistribute to run
such an app on another pc. Please inform me whether my fears or suspections
are correct.

TIA,

John

 

[Manuel Canas]

Hi John,

Yes, you can distribute your exe files and the .NET framework (Client about
32 mb) so those exe's would run on any windows pc (from windown 98 and up I
believe)

Manuel

 

[John]

Thanks Manuel, looks like I'm switching to dotNET finally . Hope not to
see everybody again (no trouble) or do see everybody again (to solve other
people's trouble).

Thanks again.

John.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

John,

Some of you might recognise me from the VB6 newsgroups.

I don't read these groups, at least not the English language
ones... ;-).

I just got a book, that includes VB .NET Standard Edition. I'm currently
using VB6 standard / learning edition. I would like to upgrade or whatever
you want to call it, by installing the VB .NET that I have now. However, the
book says that if you make executionables with VB .NET _Standard_ Edition,
they won't run on any pc if that pc doesn't have VB .NET installed (Talking
VB .NET 2003 here). In other words, I would not be able to make executables
for ie my friends / family if they don't have VB .NET like I do.

That's not true. Applications created using VB.NET require the .NET
Framework to be installed on the machine.

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