Can I make just plain exe, no dll-s in VS 2005?

Can I make just plain exe, no dll-s in VS 2005?

• Puneet Minda

  As a general rule if you're going to use .NET you're going to have distribute the .NET Framework or ensure the customer has the .NET Framework installed. This applies to every single framework on the face of the earth. A user can't run a
  Win32 app without win32
  A user can't run a MFC application without MFC
  A user can't run a Java Application without Java
  A User can't run a cygwin application without cygwin
  A user can't run a VB6 application without Visual basic.
  
  There are several frameworks out there that you can purchase (costing anywhere from 1-6k I think) that will take out parts of the .NET Framework and shove them into your application. This has lots of downsides that relate to security, updates, cross platform, and cost.
  
  
  
  
  

• Doeb

  Hey, thank you for your answers! I solved my problem by switching from dynamic library to static, as Jonathan said!
  

• ronGot

  How do you do that

  Solution Properties -> References

  
  

• Sajal57918

  If you are writing a small application that only depends on the C and C++ runtimes then if you statically link to these runtimes you should be able to copy your executable to another machine and just run it. The same is true if your application only depends on Win32 (assuming the other machine is running Windows).
  
  
• Can I make just plain exe, no dll-s in VS 2005?