VB 6.0 Personal Edition: No Compiler ?!?
Well, I'm a VB newbie. But now I've found out that the low-budget personal edition has no compiler. Can I create EXE-Files anyway?
I've heard that older versiones of VB used to Link the interpreter and the source-code to make a stand-alone application. Is this what happens with in VB 6.0 personal?
I've heard that older versiones of VB used to Link the interpreter and the source-code to make a stand-alone application. Is this what happens with in VB 6.0 personal?
I think that what you call "Personnal" is the "Learning" edition.
This version is market to LEARN therefore not compile. You have to pay for the Professional or Enterprise edition to have the ability to compile.
This version is market to LEARN therefore not compile. You have to pay for the Professional or Enterprise edition to have the ability to compile.
The Personal Edition can create EXE files. Look in the File menu for "Create XXXX.EXE" where XXXX is your project name.
The Learning Edition is the one without a compiler, I think? It retails for under $70 with a book on VB.
The Learning Edition is the one without a compiler, I think? It retails for under $70 with a book on VB.
If you look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/prodinfo/purchase/pricing.asp, we have 3 versions:
-Learning
-Professional
-Enterprise
So what is the "Personnal" Edition?
-Learning
-Professional
-Enterprise
So what is the "Personnal" Edition?
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I'm sorry to reject your answer. I really need a clear answer, if I can create an EXE-File and run it *without* the development enviroment. And that's what I call "standalone", I don't care to distrubting dll's... most programms needs some of them these days, so no news from this part.
Okay it's the "Learning" Edition I'm talking about. I thought seeing something about personal, but I checked the Micorsoft page and it's the "Learning" Edition one (I'm in Switzerland here, and therfore the translation doesn't plainly fit). Microsofts page says it's without the native-compiler. But I don't care if there is no *native-compiler*, all I care is:
Can I create an EXE-File and run it without the Development Environement, YES or NO?
Okay it's the "Learning" Edition I'm talking about. I thought seeing something about personal, but I checked the Micorsoft page and it's the "Learning" Edition one (I'm in Switzerland here, and therfore the translation doesn't plainly fit). Microsofts page says it's without the native-compiler. But I don't care if there is no *native-compiler*, all I care is:
Can I create an EXE-File and run it without the Development Environement, YES or NO?
No!!!
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So what is this "Create ###.exe File" cable4096 was talking about?
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So what is this "Create ###.exe File" cable4096 was talking about?
No you can't compile with the Learning edition.
There is no Create option in the file menu in neither edition of VB! In the Professional and the Enterprise edition, there is a MAKE menu item that allow you to compile.
There is no Create option in the file menu in neither edition of VB! In the Professional and the Enterprise edition, there is a MAKE menu item that allow you to compile.
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emoreau: I've seen the "create ###.exe" thingy recently in the File-menu, allthought I don't know what it exactly does. Please, I'd like to know if the Exe-File is usable outside of the developement environement. Then I'll be satisfied and release the points.
*Please* people,
do not "answer" the question. I'll choose the best comment at the end of the discussion as an answer.
*Please* people,
do not "answer" the question. I'll choose the best comment at the end of the discussion as an answer.
The EXE file is the compiled version of your application. This is one of the file that you have to distribute to your user. There is a tool (called the Package and Deployment Wizard) that collects all the information needed to install required files.
Microsoft Visual Basic Learning Edition is designed for the hobbyist or novice programmer. It has the ability to create distributable applications**, but lacks many of the tools that a professional developer would need, such as full ODBC support, scrollable cursors, Pool Manager, and Component Manager.
Visual Basic Professional Edition is designed for the individual professional or corporate developer. It has all the tools a typical professional developer would need to build and distribute robust, professional looking applications.
Visual Basic Enterprise Edition is designed for teams of developers creating distributed, high performance client server applications (The Remote Data Objects in the Enterprise Edition provide some of the fastest remote data access available in a tool today).
** - Including EXE's
(from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/technical/techfaq.asp)
Visual Basic Professional Edition is designed for the individual professional or corporate developer. It has all the tools a typical professional developer would need to build and distribute robust, professional looking applications.
Visual Basic Enterprise Edition is designed for teams of developers creating distributed, high performance client server applications (The Remote Data Objects in the Enterprise Edition provide some of the fastest remote data access available in a tool today).
** - Including EXE's
(from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/technical/techfaq.asp)
As far as I am aware, the only version of VB that does not have the capability to create EXE's is the Control Creation Edition(http://support.microsoft.com/support/vbasic/vb5cce/)
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Adjusted points from 50 to 100
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Hey, thanks nrholder. Your comments sound informative. I know that with the learning edition I won't be able to conntect to DataBases. It's okay.
The only thing I need is to *create* (I will never ever again mention compilation...) EXE's and distribute it to others.
I'd like someone confirming that the Learning-Edition can create EXE's, since others commented on my question that it can't...
The only thing I need is to *create* (I will never ever again mention compilation...) EXE's and distribute it to others.
I'd like someone confirming that the Learning-Edition can create EXE's, since others commented on my question that it can't...
THE LEARNING EDITION CAN create EXEs, but it isn't legal to distribute them. The learning edition is EXACTLY what it says!
Only EXEs compiled with the PROFESSIONAL, AND ENTERPRISE EDITION MAY BE DISTRIBUTED.
QUESTION: WHAT OPTIONS DO YOU HAVE (WHAT TYPES OF NEW PROJECT CAN YOU CREATE?)
Only EXEs compiled with the PROFESSIONAL, AND ENTERPRISE EDITION MAY BE DISTRIBUTED.
QUESTION: WHAT OPTIONS DO YOU HAVE (WHAT TYPES OF NEW PROJECT CAN YOU CREATE?)
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Thanks for your info j3877. Unfortuatly I can't answer on what project VB 6.0 Learning is going to be used, because I'm gathering information here for someone else. He is a newbie in Programming and want to begin to programm VB. But he didn't want to buy the Learning Edition if he wouldn't have been able to create EXE's and the Professional Edition was to expensive in his eyes (and he is not a professional ;)
Okay, so far so good. Can anyone else can assert that the Learning Edition can create EXE-Files?
Okay, so far so good. Can anyone else can assert that the Learning Edition can create EXE-Files?
As others have commented, the VB 6.0 does not include an "Optimizing native code compiler." This does not mean that the Learning Edition can't create EXE's. It only means that the resulting EXE is a "p-code" version. The complete list of features that are supported by each of the three versions of VB 6.0 can be found at:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q191/0/37.ASP
All projects created with any version of Visual Basic use the services of the run-time DLL (MSVBVM60.DLL), including the Learning Edition. The EXE's that are produced can be used without the development environment, but since they can't be compiled into native code, they can't be optomized.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q191/0/37.ASP
All projects created with any version of Visual Basic use the services of the run-time DLL (MSVBVM60.DLL), including the Learning Edition. The EXE's that are produced can be used without the development environment, but since they can't be compiled into native code, they can't be optomized.
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Wotan: Why are you not listening?!?
I don't want to know if the Learning Edition is Compiling, Optimizing or using DLL's. I've already seen the URL you've mentioned but I doesn't support your theory that the Learning Edition can't create EXE's, it just states that it can't compile and that's *not* the same.
I'm confused and I begin to doubt that I'll ever get any knowledge out of this forum.
People this is frustrating.
I don't want to know if the Learning Edition is Compiling, Optimizing or using DLL's. I've already seen the URL you've mentioned but I doesn't support your theory that the Learning Edition can't create EXE's, it just states that it can't compile and that's *not* the same.
I'm confused and I begin to doubt that I'll ever get any knowledge out of this forum.
People this is frustrating.
I'd say you aren't listening.
I didn't say it couldn't create an EXE, I said it could. I also answered your original question, which asked if the EXE could be used without the development environment. It can.
I didn't say it couldn't create an EXE, I said it could. I also answered your original question, which asked if the EXE could be used without the development environment. It can.
Hi MadMike,
You can surely answer yourself! Do you have a Make option (in the File menu)? If yes, you can compile. If not, you can't.
Also, do you the Package & Deployment Wizard (should be in the Add-in manager and from the Windows menu from START (not the one in VB))? This is the tool requested to collect information about your application and create a setup package. If you don't have this tool, you will have hard time deploying your application!
Did you look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/prodinfo/datasheet/feature.asp
You can surely answer yourself! Do you have a Make option (in the File menu)? If yes, you can compile. If not, you can't.
Also, do you the Package & Deployment Wizard (should be in the Add-in manager and from the Windows menu from START (not the one in VB))? This is the tool requested to collect information about your application and create a setup package. If you don't have this tool, you will have hard time deploying your application!
Did you look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/prodinfo/datasheet/feature.asp
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Wotan: Sorry, I wasn't listening. You didn't say it can't. (Double negations can be real trip-wires with an emotional charged butt-head like I got one right now. So I take this for a: "it can" and am just happy :)
emoreau: "You can surely answer yourself"
I can't, simply because I don't *own* any version of VB myself. I know the "Create ###.exe" is in the File-Menu because I saw it once on someone's computer looking over his shoulder. I didn't knew what version it was Learning, Personal or whatever. So I thought I'd ask someone who owns a VB Version and I thought to ask a expert in VB before I'd buy the Learning Edition (every other Version costs to much for my purpose). Finally I got more answers that I ever wanted... but none on the tiny detail if the Learning Edition can create an EXE. I *did* some research on the Microsoft site and came over with the exact URL some of you gave as comment (or answer), but none of the URL contained an answer on my question, just info over native-code compiler gibberish and other features I wasn't interested in.
Sorry for this mess guys, I'm emotionally charged right now and feel like breaking something. (I admit, the temptation to add some "f**king" in this comment were rather big) So I better shut up right now and come back with a clear head tomorrow. I decided to give the points to Wotan, but you can still submit a comment if you'd like to add something to the discussion.
emoreau: "You can surely answer yourself"
I can't, simply because I don't *own* any version of VB myself. I know the "Create ###.exe" is in the File-Menu because I saw it once on someone's computer looking over his shoulder. I didn't knew what version it was Learning, Personal or whatever. So I thought I'd ask someone who owns a VB Version and I thought to ask a expert in VB before I'd buy the Learning Edition (every other Version costs to much for my purpose). Finally I got more answers that I ever wanted... but none on the tiny detail if the Learning Edition can create an EXE. I *did* some research on the Microsoft site and came over with the exact URL some of you gave as comment (or answer), but none of the URL contained an answer on my question, just info over native-code compiler gibberish and other features I wasn't interested in.
Sorry for this mess guys, I'm emotionally charged right now and feel like breaking something. (I admit, the temptation to add some "f**king" in this comment were rather big) So I better shut up right now and come back with a clear head tomorrow. I decided to give the points to Wotan, but you can still submit a comment if you'd like to add something to the discussion.
If the Personal Edition's the < £100 edition, then u will note that it can compile to P-Code.
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