I want a VB app that can run off of CD without an install. Is this
possible? Can you make it so the app looks for its .dll's on the CD
without them being installed on the system?

Thanks,
andrew

I suppose this is possible, but I've never tried it. When VB starts, it
looks for DLLs it needs in the application directory, and if that's on a CD,
so be it. You may want to make provisions for the INI file to exist in the
Windows directory so that users can have personalized settings if necessary.
That part will require you write the code so that if it does not find an INI
file, it will use "default" values and create a new INI file in the
specified directory, as necessary.

Chris Stamey
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I want a VB app that can run off of CD without an install. Is this
possible? Can you make it so the app looks for its .dll's on the CD
without them being installed on the system?

Thanks,
andrew

There are only limited circumstances where this can be made to work.  Any
use of an ActiveX control (an OCX), that's not part of Windows, or of a
ActiveX server (such as many but not all DLLs) require that the component be
registered before being run.  This is part of the job of an installation
program.

If you don't use any OCXs or ActiveX servers, such as DAO, then a compiled
program has a good shot at running off the CD.  Otherwise, you either have
to install it or have your code do what the install program was going to do
in the first place.

You can have your install leave the program on the CD.  I don't think the
Setup Wizard does this, so you may have to use another setup program.