VB.NET without .NET Framework?

[wfunction]

Does anyone know how to use a VB.NET application without having to install the framework? I need to do this on a computer which I am not the owner and do not want to install the framework. Thanks.

 

[cjard]

It can be done and there are programs available to allow you to do such a thing. One of them is called Xenocode Postbuild. It'll cost you a couple of hundred pounds though.

True! I was answering on a puritannical level:

There is no way to run a .NET application on a machine that does not have the .NET framework installed

Compiling a .NET application (MSIL) into native code means it is not a .NET application any more.

However, vis is correct in that you will have a program that was originally written in vb.net that does not require the .NET framework to run. Its a case of interpreting the OP's question - and it seems the differing interpretation has led to a very good, complete answer in this case

 

[wfunction]

Oh

Oh, OK. Vis, do you know of any free programs? Or fully functional trials for a period?

 

[vis781]

Free? No, assembly linking is tricky stuff and if there eas a free one i wouldn't like to think what kind of a mess it would make.

http://www.xenocode.com/Products/Postbuild/Trial.aspx

 

[wfunction]

OK, thanx.