EXE Wrapping

[shabab]

Hi,
I need to wrap a exe in my vb program. Suppose i want to protect a.exe, this a.exe should not be available for the outside world. ie, a.exe should not be copied to hdd from the program to run, it should run from inside my program. Can anyone help me on this.... its very urgent

Thanks in advance

[pnish]

You could perhaps look at using a resource file which contains your .exe. Your wrapper program would have to extract it to disk to run it though (I think), but you could delete it when finished. Do a search of the forums for resource file.

[d3gerald]

welcome to vbf,

first of all, as far as i know, there is no way you could do that. but you can deny any direct initiation of your program.

what i mean is if you want that your application will be the only one capable of running such another application of yours, it can be done but with care

first you need to compile your main prog into exe format

then go to command prompt and rename it and replace its extension with another extension that the os cannot directly execute

on the form load event of your second program, rename the file back to its original extension which is .exe and run it using shell.

on the unload event of the form, rename it back to what you renamed it in command com before

[MartinLiss]

Or you could make the 2nd program into a dll and run that.

[Shuja Ali]

Hi,
I need to wrap a exe in my vb program. Suppose i want to protect a.exe, this a.exe should not be available for the outside world. ie, a.exe should not be copied to hdd from the program to run, it should run from inside my program. Can anyone help me on this.... its very urgent

Thanks in advance

Why would you do that?

[Hack]

Welcome to the forums.

You do have the source code for a.exe right?