Re: Compileing to diffrent file extensions

From: Chris Dunaway ("dunawayc[[at]_lunchmeat_sbcglobal[dot]]net")
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:08:53 -0500

On 14 May 2004 17:00:52 +0200, Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

>
> Did you ever see that for another application? I don't see much sense
> in hiding the user the fact that the file actually contains code that
> can be executed.

Lots of apps do this. Just look at Windows Screen savers. They have a
.scr extension, but are nothing more than .dlls.

Also in Windows, control panel applets. They have an extension of .cpl but
are just a .dll.

How about PhotoShop plugins. They have different extensions (.8bf for
example), but are just .dll's

That's a very common thing to do, but I like your suggestion about the
naming, though.

The only way I can think to do it with .Net would be to use a custom build
action in a setup project that renames the file. 

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Chris
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