>I've got a project that i've been working on for some time and was just taking a look at the exe after a build and noticed that it had grown quite considerably in size.
>i ran a few tests and noticed the following behavior : every time i compile the exe size grows about 15k.
>i've built several times in succession without changing anything at all and the exe grew about 15 each time.
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>i tried to delete the exe before compile, pack & reindex the project but nothing seems to help.
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>i'm using 5.0a w/ Visual Source Safe on win95. all files in the project are checked out.
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>any ideas?
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>please before my exe outgrows my hard drive.
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>thanks,
>gray
Gray,
Try USE Your.VCX and PACK on all your class library files. Then rebuild the exe an see what size it is.