[casual_games] How to deploy Visual Basic app w/o requiring enduser .NET installation?

[Matthew Ford]

Hello again, another n00b question! I realize this is a bit
programming-heavy so please answer me directly off-list or let me know a
better place to ask this kind of thing. I don't know if this is too far
off-topic.
 
I am programming a Visual Basic app which makes and manages random content
for a tactical game related to D&D v3. It's evolved to the point where I'm
considering selling it to casual gamers. Yay for me. It's a hack but a fun
hack. :)
 
I am programming this with Visual Basic .NET. I've made a deployable
executable, but when I launch it, it requires installation of the .NET
framework to install the .exe. For the reasons stated on this list, I'd like
to avoid that, considering that as far as I know I'm not doing anything with
this simple little app that benefits from .NET. I could probably drop the
code into VB6 and it would work just fine.
 
My question is: How can I can avoid making my deployable executable demand
installation of the .NET framework? 
 
Lastly, if I want some basic network communication to be built into the app,
but do not want to require .NET installation as stated above, what do you
recommend I use as a network layer?

Exact info on my version of VS:
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET   69462-005-5393384-18933
Microsoft Visual C# .NET   69462-005-5393384-18933
Microsoft Visual C++ .NET   69462-005-5393384-18933
Microsoft Visual J# .NET   69462-005-5393384-18933
 
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