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Charles A. Lackman - 25 Dec 2004 19:46 GMT

Hello,

How do you write unmanaged code in vb.net? Currently, If I need to write an
installer or a small program that should not be managed by the .net
framework then I have have to use vb6.0. Is there a way to make small
programs that will run without the .net framework in VS.NET?

Is there a book on this (if it is possible)? If so it's name would be
greatly appreciated.

Chuck

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Ken Tucker [MVP] - 25 Dec 2004 20:09 GMT

Hi,

The only way to write unmanaged code with vs.net 2003 is to write a
win32 project in c++

Ken
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Hello,

How do you write unmanaged code in vb.net? Currently, If I need to write an
installer or a small program that should not be managed by the .net
framework then I have have to use vb6.0. Is there a way to make small
programs that will run without the .net framework in VS.NET?

Is there a book on this (if it is possible)? If so it's name would be
greatly appreciated.

Chuck

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Leon Mayne [MVP] - 25 Dec 2004 22:15 GMT

> How do you write unmanaged code in vb.net?

All .NET code is managed. Therefore use VB6 or VC++ if you want to make
unmanaged code.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 26 Dec 2004 01:31 GMT

"Leon Mayne [MVP]" <l.rmvmayne@uea.ac.uk> schrieb:

>> How do you write unmanaged code in vb.net?
>
> All .NET code is managed. Therefore use VB6 or VC++ if you want to make
> unmanaged code.

ACK, but notice that VB6 is /not/ a good choice for an installer because it
would require a bootstrapper written in another programming language to make
sure VB6's runtime files are installed/registered in the right version on
the machine.

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jamie - 26 Dec 2004 02:27 GMT

OK,
If you write the program in VB6, write the installer with .NET - you need
what now...
It would leave the VB6 program behind with no dependency on .NET other than
for the installation?
Jamie

> "Leon Mayne [MVP]" <l.rmvmayne@uea.ac.uk> schrieb:
>>> How do you write unmanaged code in vb.net?
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> make sure VB6's runtime files are installed/registered in the right
> version on the machine.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 26 Dec 2004 09:35 GMT

"jamie" <anonymous@nospam.somewhere.com> schrieb:

> If you write the program in VB6, write the installer with .NET - you need
> what now...
> It would leave the VB6 program behind with no dependency on .NET other
> than for the installation?

VB6 doesn't depend on .NET, but it depends on its own runtime libaries.

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