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But cannot the required elements be bundled into an output so that I have a single file that can then be run on my other PCs?
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But cannot the required elements be bundled into an output so that I have a single file that can then be run on my other PCs?

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no it would be to big for very small apps. it is not only .net apps, Java is the same, the old VB6 was also like this
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no it would be to big for very small apps. it is not only .net apps, Java is the same, the old VB6 was also like this

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Well, not what I wanted to hear, but &quot;the truth shall set you free.&quot;
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Well, not what I wanted to hear, but "the truth shall set you free."

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I have a very simple program (my first in VB) that I simply want to put on another PC and run as a stand alone .EXE. &nbsp;I have found many references thru Google and others here that seem far more complicated (install .NET for example) than I expected. &nbsp;Is there a simple process, or am I over simplifying life?
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I have a very simple program (my first in VB) that I simply want to put on another PC and run as a stand alone .EXE.  I have found many references thru Google and others here that seem far more complicated (install .NET for example) than I expected.  Is there a simple process, or am I over simplifying life?

Visual Basic 2010 Express program to a deployable .EXE?

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,