Brian,
That is the same tool that I was wanting to see if anyone had tried. I
mean the one from remotesoft. (Salamander is what they call it.)
Salamander .NET Linker and Mini-Deployment Tool
Deploy .NET w/o Framework
http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/intro.html
Do mind me asking "How big was your executable after it packed up all
the necessary Framework with it?
I have allot of COM stuff that I am using in my VB .Net program so I am
wondering if that will make the EXE grow even more and more. Was your
program very involved with using allot of COM addins?? My assumption
is that Salamander by RemoteSoft will just pack in all those
dependencies into the EXE???
These are all the things I am using in my app. Do you think Remote
soft will pack all these in into one EXE nicely??
- integrated IE browser Active X components
- Flash COM
- MDAC - Jet (to support access to reading MDB files)
- Media player 9.x Com for playing MP3 files and showing visualizations
- .Net 1.1
I am not for or against loading Framework. I will have users who will
love my program updates that only take 20 seconds to update over dial
up because new releases are only 150K (for those getting the version
without Framework packed into the EXE). And i will have users who are
glad that they can run straight from a CD or a download in a Internet
Cafe where they don't have priviledges to install Framework (for those
getting the version with Framwork packed into the EXE). To get the
win-win I guess I will deliver my code from my web site in both flavors
- with and without Framework packed in.
Do you think Salamander will do the trick for me with all the addin
technology I am using in my program??