store exe in activex or compile exe in run time

[vascobrito]

Hi there
I'm buildind an activex that need's to be distributed with a small precompiled exe.
Is there any way to store the compiled file in the activex so that, i don't need to distribute two files, and the programmer that may use the activex doesn't have distribute the two files also?
Or in alternative to compile the exe file in run time, assuming that the user may not have vb or any other compiler program?
any help woul be much apreciated.
thanks

 

[NoCoolHandle]

Ok,

my thought...
If you were to create a setupanddeploy package for your project and then distribute the package, you won't have any problems. It will end up being 3 or 4 files with a setup.exe. The nice feature of this deploy is that it will build a .cab file with all your appfiles (including referernced objects). It also takes care of registering COM objects for you, so you shouldn't need to worry about getting any "com reference/object not found" type errors.

Otherwise, you need to compile and send both files togther.Making sure to instruct your recipient to click the COM.exe first to make sure it gets registered corerctly.

My 1c


Rob

 

[vascobrito]

Thanks for your reply NoCoolHandle

You're right, i don't think i can do what i wanted.
I'll do it as you said.
Thanks