Not sure if anything of the such has been posted before, and if it has simply delete this thread

I was messing around today and noticed the linker included with VC++ .NET is newer than the one used by Visual Basic. I decided to see if was any more efficient so I copied VC++ .NET's link.exe and mspdb71.dll into my Visual Basic 6 folder (where the old link.exe is located). I renamed the old one so I would still have it. I compiled a program that did nothing but display a message box and it was only 7.5 kb and the executable still worked (in the past when I have tried to replace the linker with a better one I failed to cover all of the bases so the exe would not work)!! This is unbelievable because I saw no ill effects from compiling with that linker and an executable that should have been 25 kb was only 7.5 kb.

I thought it was too good to be true so I tried it with several of my projects and there were NEVER any ill effects. This seems to be a 100% safe 0 negatives way to decrease all Visual Basic executables by a good 18 kb.

Enjoy