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I happened on an advertisement in this months VBPJ for Bit-Arts Fusion, a package that claims to convert VB applications to stand-alone executables. In the last couple of months, I've found myself spending much more time in the VC++ editor instead of the VB editor where I belong because I've needed to statically link my app. Is this Bit-Arts product any good?
I have fiddled with the trial version, and it really works as expected.
But statically linking the VB runtimes is not advisable because the resulting executable will be restricted to run on winNT4 (lastest SP), win2K (pro only) and winXP.
Other statically linked dependencies work very well, and the compression feature is fine. The only thing I couldn't get to work are ActiveX DLLs with injected dependencies. When creating an object on these, I always get either "automation error", thus being unable to use that dll or "startup error", which crashes the whole IDE or the compiled exe (while the actual error type depends on the type of injection used, but no matter what, it won't work)
I'd already have contacted their support on this topic, but only registered users have access to support.
I won't use Fusion until that works.