Im new to visual studio and .net development but have done a fair amount of VBA work.

I made a simple gas milage computer by doing new project> VB > windows> windows application. Now I publish it which makes a setup.exe file, however when I install it on a computer without .net (my home computer) it goes to install .net framework.

Is there a way to publish programs with visual studio 2005 that do not require .NET framework? I would like to write very simple windows apps like we've all downloaded and that do not necessarily setup.exe, installation, downloading framework etc.

I basically want to make a very simple standalone EXE program.. is that possible with VS?

Should I be using some over development system? Sorry if these questions have obvious answers, I'm new to this.