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I have compiled an application which simply checks to see if the ATI drivers which are needed to run the optimized ATI Milkyway application exist or not, and if they don't copy and rename them and put them in the system32 folder (it has been designed to work on either 32-bit or 64-bit systems).

All is fine and works fine, however i just wanted to know if there is a way to compile the application without having to 'publish' it whereby it builds it as a installer package. Seeing as it is only a tiny application, installing it seems a bit daft. Any way to get "just" the application to be output as a .exe file?

I don't know about vb.net but any apps written with the old visual basic used to need lots of dlls installing to work.
Doing an install used to take care of this problem.

I prefer delphi or c++.

Yeah this was true with VB versions up to visual basic 6.0. However with the .net version it is slightly different as anything from win2k onwards has the .net framework downloaded via a windows update. So it seems to me like it should work straight out the box.. But assumptions are the mother of all *fill in the blank*.

I could always port it back to VB6 i suppose, but i did want it to work with .net as i'm trying to learn the newer language.  :(