Re: Source of EXE Size


"Dan Johnson" <johnson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To answer both Chris and your questions...
>
>> > My VB6 executable file has significantly increased in size ....
>>
>> Since when?
>
> ***Over the last several months it's gone from approx. 1,900 KB to 3,800
> KB.

You said over the last several months. That in itself doesn't mean
anything. In several months, you might have added 1 line of code or
thousands of lines of code. Obviously, if you've added thousands of lines of
code, the size of the EXE is going to increase.

I do recall hearing of a bug in VB (not sure what version of VB or if it
ever got fixed) where an EXE would grow in size upon recompilation even if
no changes whatsoever were made to the project. I seem to remember this
affecting VB3 and under, but I'm hardly sure about that.

In any case, if you've made very few changes to the project (in code, adding
controls or forms, etc.) and the size of the EXE grows considerably, some
things to keep in mind are resources you might have added. IOW, you could
have added picture, sound, etc. resources and not have made many code
changes at all. However, this could cause the size of the EXE to be
considerably larger.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic


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