dll, ocx, program size

[Lithic]

Hi,

If i'm trying to make my final distributable program as small as possible, I guess I have to avoid using contrals that require dlls etc to be installed?

How do people get around using the common dialog control? Is there somewhere that lists the size of the required dlls etc?

My little program blows out to a 2 mb install file because it has a rich text box, flex grid, and common dialog control.

Cheers,
Lithic.

[Phil Weber]

You can use API calls to display common dialogs: http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/comdlg/filedlgsoverview.htm . 2 MB is not very large, though: a dial-up user can download it in about 5 minutes.

You could omit the VB runtime files (listed here), which are likely a large portion of that 2 MB. Most potential users of your program will already have the runtime (it's been included with Windows for several years); for those who don't, you can provide a link to a download location.