I understand my problem well enough, just hope I can explain it clearly. I have a Windows 7 x64 machine on I use VS 2012 Express for development. There is another machine in the server room running Win XP i386 with VB 2010 Express. Both machines are equipped with MS Excel 2003, Novell GroupWise 8.x for email and AutoCAD 2013. All licensed up, nice and legal. The WinXP machine is also running Xammp and it receives data streams over the Internet which kick off a process by where a drawing gets created in AutoCAD and emailed out to the user who requested it. Ok, I know that doesn't clear things up so maybe this will.
In doing development for this project, I typically RDK to the WinXP machine and use VB 2010 Express. I add references to Excel, GroupWise and AutoCAD and all works well. I don't do development on this machine everyday but there are times when I have to expand the project and using this machine has seemed mandatory for me because when the compiled exe starts running it starts looking for specific locations for those references. I can develop on the Windows 7 machine but the locations of the references are in completely different locations from the WinXP machine (thank you M$) and things usually don't work so well.
That said, and I probably just muddied up the water, is there a way to make the references needed platform independent. Meaning, can I do my development and testing on my Windows 7 desktop and then move the exe over to the WinXP machine and get the results desired?
In doing development for this project, I typically RDK to the WinXP machine and use VB 2010 Express. I add references to Excel, GroupWise and AutoCAD and all works well. I don't do development on this machine everyday but there are times when I have to expand the project and using this machine has seemed mandatory for me because when the compiled exe starts running it starts looking for specific locations for those references. I can develop on the Windows 7 machine but the locations of the references are in completely different locations from the WinXP machine (thank you M$) and things usually don't work so well.
That said, and I probably just muddied up the water, is there a way to make the references needed platform independent. Meaning, can I do my development and testing on my Windows 7 desktop and then move the exe over to the WinXP machine and get the results desired?