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I'm an expert with VB6 and have recently been using 2005 VB Express. Since I'm also an expert with Java it's not too bad. It's like I'm doing Java, but using VB! An issue I have is where the EXE file gets stored after compilation. VB6 creates one output and one output only, which is the EXE file. With VB6 I can easily save all EXE files in the same folder. Anytime I recompile a project it will remember and write the EXE file to the same place again. 2005 VB creates a "bin" and "object" folder off the folder where the project is, and within each of those folders is "debug" and "release". I only want one thing! I want the EXE file I just compiled! I do not need or want any of the stuff in these created folders. So I have to go in, find, and manually copy the EXE file to a common folder, then delete the other stuff. This is really a nuisance. I might see about hooking some process into the compile to do this for me, but that would involve research.

 

In VB6, packaging an application is an additional step. If I want to package an application for others to install and use, I do that and don't mind. Very few of my applications are for others. Some are, but most are for my own use. I would prefer 2005 VB not to automatically create a deployment package for me since I don't want that.

 

Also, is there some way to have the release version compiled by default rather than the debug version? Any help with these issues would be appreciated.


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