Building the Release file

[mjay]

Hello,

I actually have 2 questions and this is really for vb.net users.

 

1. When I debug my code I get an exe file that I tried to deploy to another computer. And the program of course did not work. It was looking for a dll file that was in the bin folder on my machine. When I copy that bin folder to the other computer I of course am able to run the program. How do I compile my program so I get an exe file that is not dependable on the dll file?

 

 

2. When I run the compiled program on another computer (clients) I get an error message Invalid index. This is completly throwing off because when I run that same progam on the machine I used to build it on, it runs just fine. Could the version of excel be the reason why?

 

Please help I have worked a long time on this program to have it not work on another computer is pittyful.

Thanks

 

mjay :rolleyes:

[PlausiblyDamp]

1. That is by design, if you use an external library then you need to deploy it along with your executable. To minimise duplicates they can be installed in a central location known as the GAC (Global Assembly Cache) - however to do so the dll needs to have a strong name (been digitally signed).

 

2. Without knowing more about what your application does / interacts with it is difficult to pin-point exactly what causes any given error; however there are know incompatibilities between different versions of office.

[techmanbd]

With the Excel file, I was having the same problem, and it turned out I had 10.0 and the other computers had 9.0 I think, but was a different version

 

goto this link, and the last reply I had found a solution

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=79754&highlight=excel

[mjay]

Thanks on your reply,

 

On question number 1 you completely lost me

 

Question #2. This is a simple vb.net program that reads in a column from an excel spreadsheet, then in extracts data from a text file, compares the two items and displayes whatever information that was on the spreadsheet but not in the text file

I just figured that the code is too long and too mundane to post here ...

 

Thanks

 

mjay