Exporting project?

kasmatt2000 wrote:

Use click once tool. Click on your project in VB express and select properties. Click publish(option on side tabs) and somewhere as you go around through the wizard you will be asked whether to publish onto a website or onto a cd. Select cd then select the directory to save the published files into. When its done go to the directory you saved it into and you will see a couple of files plus a setup file. These are the files you should pass on to your friends on Cd or whatever. Clicking the setup file will install your project onto the your pc and it will even appear in the start menu options. There is also a copy of the published files some where in your projects solution folder. Just look around for a 'publish' folder. Hope this helps. Matt

Thx i'll try that. By what im reading though its not possible to just give them an exe instead of all these files? I want to make it available for people to download off the net at some stage and less files the neater it is. Also do they need .net framework to run it?

stallion_alpa at 2007-9-5 >

They will most definately need .net framework 2.0 to run your program. As for the files just zip them and upload to your site as one file. Altenatively zip them as an .exe with winRar(not sure which version). some where in the options there is a option to select which file to run after unzipping, select the setup file. This way the user wont have to find the setup file again and run it. Its been a while since i did this with winRar so forgive the vagueness.

Matt

kasmatt2000 at 2007-9-5 >