Making Applications instead of exe's and installing .net framework

Question

how do i make an application in visual basic? my friend who has vb5 just needs to use an application setup wizard, but i (a) don't have it (b) don't know where to find it can anybody tell me where i can find this? my other problem is this, only about half the people i give my programs to have .net framework installed on their computers, therefore they can't use my programs. are they able to install .net framework without vb and stuff? if so, how would they do that so they could use my programs. thanks for any answers

Answer 1

• The C# language is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.
• The language, and implementations thereof, should provide support for software engineering principles such as strong type checking, array bounds checking, detection of attempts to use uninitialized variables, and automatic garbage collection. Software robustness, durability, and programmer productivity are important.
• The language is intended for use in developing software components suitable for deployment in distributed environments.
• Source code portability is very important, as is programmer portability, especially for those programmers already familiar with C and C++.
• Support for internationalization is very important.
• C# is intended to be suitable for writing applications for both hosted and embedded systems, ranging from the very large that use sophisticated operating systems, down to the very small having dedicated functions.
• Although C# applications are intended to be economical with regard to memory and processing power requirements, the language was not intended to compete directly on performance and size with C or assembly language.