Standalone Group Project

[BigSich]

Hi, this may be a basic question, but I have not been able to find the answer anywhere. I finished writing a program that a previous employee started. I had never used vb before, so I only know what I needed to finish it. It is a .vbg file, so it has the code and a user-interface. Is there a way to turn this into a standalone application? By that I mean I would be able to install the software on any computer, with or without vb and run it?

[Hack]

What would be installed on the client computers is the exe that results from compiling the project, along with the necessary runtime and dependency files. The project itself would not be installed.

[BigSich]

Thanks for the reply. So all I need to do is compile it into an exe file and i should be able to run it on any computer? How do i do this?

[MartinLiss]

Thanks for the reply. So all I need to do is compile it into an exe file and i should be able to run it on any computer? How do i do this?

No. Unfortunately you can't make stand-alone exe's in VB6. You could be lucky and be able to run on a PC that has the right support files from say the previous installation of a VB6 application, but to be sure it will run you should create an installation package and install from that.

I'm moving this thread to where installation is discussed.

[BigSich]

Thanks for the reply martin. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to take a .vbg file and create an installation package from it? I've looked but have been unable to find one.

[MartinLiss]

Here is a FAQ on the subject. Note that the P&D Wizard (that comes with VB6) is mentioned but it has not been updated in quite some time so if you want to install on the more modern operating systems like Vista I wouldn't suggest using it.

[Radjesh Klauke]

I suggest you use INNO SETUP. It's free and has 100's of functions.