Publishing a VB Programme

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Keith (Southend)G

Really silly question I guess, but I wanted to check before I try it.

When you publish (package up) your programme is it then final?
I have something that still needs working on, but as an interim
measure I would like to have it stand alone, (not have to open up VB
Express 2008 and debug F5, to run each time).

I assume the original code / form etc, stays the same and can be
further changed as and when required, and then re-published when
complete later on?

Thanks

Keith (Southend)
 
If you just want to run it on your computer (the development
computer), you can just make a shortcut to the exe file in \bin\debug.

When you publish an application to a folder on a network drive for
instance, it creates a subfolder with the publish version as its name.
After you publish, the version number gets incremented by one. So,
next time you publish, you will get a new folder with the new version
number.

If you specify to check for updates before the program runs or once a
week or whatever, the client computer will automatically download the
latest version that's published. So, if you're still working on it, at
least users can use whatever you have finished and working.

Hope that clarifies a little bit.

Thanks for that, I hadn't realised you could make a shortcut to \bin
\debug\, I'll give that a go.

Keith (Southend)
 
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