Re: Stand Alone EXE

From: Jim Hubbard (reply_at_groups.please)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:40:23 -0500

"David Pendrey" <fairydave@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:423a667f$1@news.comindico.com.au...
> Thank you very much Jim! Would you be able to give me some direction on
> how to use this application to wrap my applications into working?
> Preferably I would like to just release a single .EXE program simply
> because its such a small program it doesn't warrant a whole 20 meg package
> to get it working. Thank you so much fo ryour assistance

After you create your application, you run Thinstall and point it to your
exe. Thinstall then finds all related files and portions of the .Net
framework that your EXE needs and wraps the whole thing into a single EXE
that can be run without installation. This helps in a couple of ways....

First, you never have your application's files overwritten (i.e. DLL Hell).
Second, your users don't need administrative rights to run the application.
Third, your users don't need the .Net framework installed.

Thinstall even creates a virtual registry on-the-fly that your application
uses so that there are no changes to the users registry.

Of course Thinstall can be programmed to make permanent registry entries and
even to leave files on the users system (such as database files or image
files that your app may create). Thinstall also handles licensing for you.
It's really all up to you.

Thinstall is used by a huge host of companies (like Quickbooks), government
agencies and every branch of the armed forces.

I haven't talked to Jonathon Clark (President of Thinstall) in a few weeks.
The last time we talked, he had mentioned that they were working on a new
pricing scheme to be more flexible for small companies and large. So, I am
not sure what the pricing structure is right now.

Whatever it is, you can get an extra 5% off by mentioning jim__hubbard @
hotmail . com . Tell Jonathon I sent you. He's a great guy and his staff
are very helpful. www.thinstall.com

Hope this helps......

>
>
> "Jim Hubbard" <reply@groups.please> wrote in message
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>> "Michael A. Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote in message
>> news:OxYS9V3KFHA.1608@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "David Pendrey" <fairydave@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
>>> news:423a593b$1@news.comindico.com.au...
>>>>I was wondering if it is at all posible to write a stand alone .EXE
>>>>program in Visual Studio .NET. Hopefully in VB.NET but if not another
>>>>language would be ok. Thanks for the assistance
>>>
>>> Yes. Visual Studio programs (VB, C#, etc.) normally compile to a single
>>> .EXE file. This file will only run on computers that have .NET
>>> Framework installed, but it's a single .EXE file.
>>
>> Or, you can use Thinstall to wrap the exe and only the portions of the
>> .Net framework that it uses into a single executable that can be run on
>> any computer - with or without the .Net framework installed.
>>
>> Jim Hubbard
>>
>
>

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