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Old December 30th 19, 02:34 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mayayana
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"Mayayana" wrote
| "Shadow" wrote
|
|| RAMDisk.exe is actually a VB6 executable. The Microsoft Visual
|| C# / Basic.NET / MS Visual Basic 2005,7 and 10 files appear to be the
|| registration routine.
||
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| Yes. I know it's VB6. I think we're crossing wires here.
|
| There's no .Net in Dataram's program. And the installer is
| not .Net. It's just an MSI.

I realized later that you're probably talking about the
newer Dataram Ramdisk. As I noted above, I'm using the
older version, which has no .Net and supports XP. Later
versions added .Net. Still later versions dropped XP support.
The basic functionality is actually a driver. But the GUI
uses VB6 or .Net, depending on the version. From what
I can gather, the version I have seems to be a thrown-
together VB6 GUI that mainly just existing as a front-end to
the INF file, so that the RAMDisk can be installed or
uninstalled conveniently.

My guess is that the author(s) is someone knowledgeable
about low level functionality like drivers but just grabs
what's handy for the GUI and installer. Or maybe told the
new guy to do it.


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