I am new to this version of visual basic. I am making a Active:Win32 application (just a little one, does nothing) and I want to make a application exe. I don't know how to. There is no thing that says make exe or anything. I used MS Visual Basic 3.0 once and it was easy to create. No debugging or anything I just want to create an exe application and the ability to test it. ASAP
Making EXE files and testing applications
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Making EXE files and testing applications
Jerry Hung
If You want to make a proper installer, go to build / publish. Beforehand, you might have to change some settings by double clicking "My Project" in solution explorer
MatTavis
Yes Build -> Build Project / Solution will be the command your looking for to create you solution. VB.Net has potentially a lot more functionality with regard builds than VB Classic did. You have various configurations which are possible, depending upon the version of .NET you are using as well as publishing options.
Depending upon the different versions of the product you are using it will create a bin subfolder of you project folder and in there will be a Debug and/or Release folder which will create the Executables.
Depending on your project type this could be an EXE or a DLL file but the contents will be in there.
If your testing it then you can run Debug the project using F5 which will run it inside the development environment allowing you to place breakpoints in code to monitor values and code paths being taken in you application.
Daliah
Hello. First you need to make sure you've saved your project. When you first create a project in VS 2005 it is temporary until you actually save it to disk. No more hard drive space chewed up by the litter of a thousand little test apps! Once it is saved there are two ways of generating the executable. Inside the VB Express IDE you can either hit your F5 button or on the main menu select 'Build' and then the 'Buid <your applicaiton name>' option. Hope this helps.
Nishantha
After you've built the project it help to where the assembly is:
There will be a main project directory and in it will be a directoru called Bin with two subdirectories. One is called "Debug" and the other is "Release".
You want to be sure that you have set the build configuration manager to Release and after building, you will find your project output in /Bin/Release.