>I want to break my app into multiple exe's to facilitate easier updates. If I make a change in one part I don't want to have to send out the entire 3 meg executable.
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>Is there a way to include my base class libraries only in the startup executable and have other executables, called by the startup executable, reference them there. This works with procedure files but I get the message that it can't find the vcx when I exclude the vcx from the other projects.
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>I would rather not ship the vcx's themselves but compile them into the startup exe only.
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>Thanks for your help.

Another alternative is to use a patch program, that compares the old .EXE to the new one and creats a patch file. You ship this patch file which is used by the patcher to update the files.

There are a few out there, RTPatch comes to mind, there is another one that Carl Kersten recommended which I can't find my reference to.

BOb