Exe Size

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Darkwing

Hi,

I have a program that includes about 9 forms and about 15
differnt full screens along with a framework (rather lite
weight) to allow a Web type navigation of the forms.


Using eVB the size of the EXE was 500K
But in c# it is 800K (+ a 250 K language resource)

Is this whole EXE loaded at runtime, and is there any
suggestions on how I can decrease the size?

Thanks,
 
Try an obfuscator, such as the Dotfuscator, which comes in a community
edition. It'll cut down on extra unused methods, shorten strings where
feasible, etc.
 
Ed said:
Try an obfuscator, such as the Dotfuscator, which comes in a community
edition. It'll cut down on extra unused methods, shorten strings where
feasible, etc.
Click to expand...

Last time I tried Dotfuscator on a CF app, it failed. The EXE failed
peverify, and it just died when I tried to run the app on a device. I was
emailing a marketting guy and an engineer at Preemptive, but we never got
the app working. At that point, I wasn't willing to shell out the hugh
amount for the full version when I had no reason to believe it would work
any better with the CF.

My app did nothing fancy, no reflection etc, just a few forms, some bitmaps,
an icon, etc.

I was obviously disappointed given that MS ship this as their solution.

BTW: This was with version 1.2.1269. I have not tried the newer verison
1.2.1357.

Hilton
 
This is what they write most times: "It works.". I also tried with some
obfuscators and what I tried didn't (!) work at all! As long as they
don't give us more support I won't buy them, too!

Christoph
 
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