Subj : Re: What Visual IDEs available for Windows programming?
To   : comp.programming
From : Baxter
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 11:55 am


"Phlip" <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> typingcat wrote:
>
> > 2)Doesn't require any framework installation for users.
>
> None of them.
>
> You got to pay to play. If you want your users to use more than one EXE
that
> share the same GUI Toolkit, each EXE should not be bloated with a copy of
> the toolkit. It ought to be in a DLL. (Modern computers have enough
storage
> to carry much bloat around, but that's no excuse to clone the bloat of an
> _entire_ GUI Toolkit).
>
> You are really asking "how to avoid installing the peesashit .NET
framework,
> which is a miniature operating system strapped on top of the real one".
Then
> the answer is "all the other GUI Toolkits come with a harmless DLL or two
to
> supply all their needs". Except Java.

You can use Visual C++ to create Win32 applications that only use components
that are already part of the Windows OS.

You can use Visual C++ to create MFC applications using "static binding"
that will also only use components that are part of the Windows OS.

Either of these let you create a stand-alone exe that does not require that
you install any dlls to support your application.

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