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well i am running the program with a scheduler, so does it make sense to just create a reguar win app wit all the code in the form load and then compile to exe?
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well i am running the program with a scheduler, so does it make sense to just create a reguar win app wit all the code in the form load and then compile to exe?

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Thank you for easy points.<br />
BTW, I would suggest to make the form itself invisible, but place the icon (maybe even with a context menu) into the systray.
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Thank you for easy points.
BTW, I would suggest to make the form itself invisible, but place the icon (maybe even with a context menu) into the systray.

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hi, i am not an expert in creating windows apps but i know vb. i am trying to use vb.net to create a standalone program (exe) to do acertain task (parsing a file and moving a file) without a GUI. what are the steps to do that?
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hi, i am not an expert in creating windows apps but i know vb. i am trying to use vb.net to create a standalone program (exe) to do acertain task (parsing a file and moving a file) without a GUI. what are the steps to do that?

creating an executable without GUI

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,