scott wrote:
>>> The generated .exe is 23KB - I couldn't believe it and had to copy it to
>>> my other PC to check it actually worked.
>>
>> Why wouldn't it work?
> 
> IME (from Borland and older MS C++ compilers) when a compiler generates a
> GUI-based .exe as small as that something is usually missing that nobody
> without the compiler would have installed.
> 
>> Because it is a 23KB app but actually depending on a
>> huge library on your PC where most of the code would be?
>>
>> Guess what, it is, and the other PC had it as well ;)
> 
> I'm sure in the "old days" I was generating several MB .exe files to be
> redistributed, now it seems finally they are putting *just* the code you
> wrote in the .exe, and everything else is assumed to be installed already
> (ie the .net runtime).  It makes it much more efficient to distribute,
> especially when there are frequent updates.

I don't see the difference. Before, you needed the Borland Runtime. Now you
need .NET.

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