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Stand alone VB .exe?

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Crai #1 / 5	Stand alone VB .exe? Hi all. I am having fun going through the interview process for employment now and I want to put together a CD of the applications I have written. I want to put an autorun.inf file on the CD that points to an .exe that will act as a menu for the installation of the applications. The .exe file will simply be a form with three buttons on it and the click events associated with each button will simply call the shell function to launch the setups for the three applications. The question is... If I build the form in VB I am assuming the using has the runtime files on their computer right? Even a simple form with a couple of buttons requires the runtime files? I have two options as far as I can tell. (1) I can write the menu using VC++ (which I have never used and I don't know how to implement the Shell function in VC++, anyone, anyone) or (2) I could have the autorun.inf file point to a batch file that runs a setup program for the menu and then runs the resulting exe. Does anyone know how to have a program automatically run after it is installed? Thanks so much in advance! Craig -- ------------------------------------------ Ignorance is only bliss if part of your ignorance is of your ignorance.
Fri, 09 Aug 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Howard Henry Schlunde #2 / 5	Stand alone VB .exe? Quote: > Hi all. > I am having fun going through the interview process for employment now and I > want to put together a CD of the applications I have written. I want to put > an autorun.inf file on the CD that points to an .exe that will act as a menu > for the installation of the applications. The .exe file will simply be a > form with three buttons on it and the click events associated with each > button will simply call the shell function to launch the setups for the > three applications. > The question is... If I build the form in VB I am assuming the using has > the runtime files on their computer right? Even a simple form with a couple > of buttons requires the runtime files? Indeed, you are right. Quote: > I have two options as far as I can tell. (1) I can write the menu using > VC++ (which I have never used and I don't know how to implement the Shell > function in VC++, anyone, anyone) There are several options you can use in VC++ to launch your other apps. For example, you could use the ShellExecute(), CreateProcess(), and other API calls. Or, probably the simplest method would be to use the system() function which is declared in the stdlib.h header file. Code like this lanuches Notepad on my computer: #include <stdlib.h> #include <windows.h> int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, // handle to current instance HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, // handle to previous instance LPSTR lpCmdLine, // pointer to command line int nCmdShow // window show state ) { system("notepad.exe"); return 0; Quote: }; Howard Henry Schlunder - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Quote: > or (2) I could have the autorun.inf file > point to a batch file that runs a setup program for the menu and then runs > the resulting exe. Does anyone know how to have a program automatically run > after it is installed? > Thanks so much in advance! > Craig
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Lisa nor Je #3 / 5	Stand alone VB .exe? Quote: > I am having fun going through the interview process for employment now and I > want to put together a CD of the applications I have written. Is this something employers are asking of applicants nowadays? I have interviewed people at my organization, and we only ask questions in an interview--we ask the applicant to describe the past applications he worked on and what he personally developed on them. We also ask for a description of the environment--who prepared the program specs, to what detail, was their direct end user involvement, who wrote documentation, user guides, etc. We are not as much interested in what the person did (though that's important) as how well the person can _describe_ what he did. From the descriptions, and a few careful questions, you can get a pretty good idea if the person is B/Sing or not. But we never look at past sample work. For one thing, it may be a violation of another firm's proprietary products or operations.
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Signe #4 / 5	Stand alone VB .exe? Or (3) buy a program designed for doing exactly this, such as Indigo Rose's AutoPlay Menu Studio. We use it, and are very satisfied with it. You can download a demo version at http://www.indigorose.com/autoplay/index.html. It won't create a file that will run on CD (the demo version), but you can see how it works. Actually, it creates a standard exe file that doesn't change, along with a configuration file and /data directory that has all the bitmaps, buttons, text and sounds in it. It costs about $200, though. I haven't seen any better or cheaper solutions. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." Quote: > Hi all. > I am having fun going through the interview process for employment now and I Quote: > want to put together a CD of the applications I have written. I want to put > an autorun.inf file on the CD that points to an .exe that will act as a menu > for the installation of the applications. The .exe file will simply be a > form with three buttons on it and the click events associated with each > button will simply call the shell function to launch the setups for the > three applications. > The question is... If I build the form in VB I am assuming the using has > the runtime files on their computer right? Even a simple form with a couple > of buttons requires the runtime files? > I have two options as far as I can tell. (1) I can write the menu using > VC++ (which I have never used and I don't know how to implement the Shell > function in VC++, anyone, anyone) or (2) I could have the autorun.inf file > point to a batch file that runs a setup program for the menu and then runs > the resulting exe. Does anyone know how to have a program automatically run > after it is installed? > Thanks so much in advance! > Craig > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Ignorance is only bliss if part of your ignorance is of your ignorance.
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Crai #5 / 5	Stand alone VB .exe? Yes, your 3rd option is the one I ended up going with. I didn't use the software you mention though. I found one on download.com by a group called peer2peer. It is shareware and the full version is only like $20. It doesn't have many bells and whistles but since I am not using it for commercial purposes it is free. Thanks. Craig Quote: > Or (3) buy a program designed for doing exactly this, such as > Indigo Rose's AutoPlay Menu Studio. We use it, and are very > satisfied with it. You can download a demo version at > http://www.indigorose.com/autoplay/index.html. It won't create a > file that will run on CD (the demo version), but you can see how > it works. Actually, it creates a standard exe file that doesn't > change, along with a configuration file and /data directory that > has all the bitmaps, buttons, text and sounds in it. It costs > about $200, though. I haven't seen any better or cheaper > solutions. > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." > > Hi all. > > I am having fun going through the interview process for > employment now and I > > want to put together a CD of the applications I have written. I > want to put > > an autorun.inf file on the CD that points to an .exe that will > act as a menu > > for the installation of the applications. The .exe file will > simply be a > > form with three buttons on it and the click events associated > with each > > button will simply call the shell function to launch the setups > for the > > three applications. > > The question is... If I build the form in VB I am assuming the > using has > > the runtime files on their computer right? Even a simple form > with a couple > > of buttons requires the runtime files? > > I have two options as far as I can tell. (1) I can write the > menu using > > VC++ (which I have never used and I don't know how to implement > the Shell > > function in VC++, anyone, anyone) or (2) I could have the > autorun.inf file > > point to a batch file that runs a setup program for the menu and > then runs > > the resulting exe. Does anyone know how to have a program > automatically run > > after it is installed? > > Thanks so much in advance! > > Craig > > -- > > ------------------------------------------ > > Ignorance is only bliss if part of your ignorance is of your > ignorance.
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:00:00 GMT

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