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Jabo · Mar 28th, 2008, 1:10 AM

Basically, this program needs an email server to send to, a From: email address and some other text files with specific information that the program needs to work properly. I don't want the program to crash on somebody on first use, which it has been doing until those files are created. After the files are there, program works fine. I guess what I'm looking for is the VB equivalent of preprocessor directives such as #ifdef and #ifndef.

I had all that information hard-coded into the program for work use, but they changed our domain on our emails, which meant I had to go back and change the information then recompile. I want my program more robust than that so I'm removing the key elements being hard-coded into the program.

Mar 28th, 2008, 1:10 AM	#6
Jabo Not a user? Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 308 Rep Power: 2	Re: First-time setup of application Basically, this program needs an email server to send to, a From: email address and some other text files with specific information that the program needs to work properly. I don't want the program to crash on somebody on first use, which it has been doing until those files are created. After the files are there, program works fine. I guess what I'm looking for is the VB equivalent of preprocessor directives such as #ifdef and #ifndef. I had all that information hard-coded into the program for work use, but they changed our domain on our emails, which meant I had to go back and change the information then recompile. I want my program more robust than that so I'm removing the key elements being hard-coded into the program.