❔ How to Convert txt to exe or ther ways to copy a exe file from the code to somewhere help pls
(this has to be compiled in an exe file btw) I simply want to copy an exe file to a direction but visualstudios doesnt accept exe files as a resource so i thought i d import the exe file a txt file and let the program convert it back when needed to copy.
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I simply want to copy an exe file to a direction? you can't just open an exe file in a text editor and copy the content, if thats what you are trying to do you can however copy it with
File.Copy or similar, or by just reading the bytes in a file streamyes but this a scenario where the file is not on the computer so i cant give it a path so it needs to be in the resource but again visualstudios is not accepting exe in the resource
you could base64 encode the bytes from the program
but why are you embedding an exe in the first place?
just ship it together with the program, in a zip
yeah i thought about that but i want to find a way where its just a that executet exe that contains this exe and copys it into a folder
why?
hiding another program in your program usually means shady stuff
are you doing shady stuff?
no its so i can let the programm run in the startup folder
the teacher had the condition that it needs to be an exe
wwhat do you mean by that?
wait r gifs allowed?
yep.
well, files are just bytes right
ye
the problem is not all byte sequences are valid strings, which is why we cant just copypaste a program as a text file
but if we read those bytes, as bytes, and Base64 encode it (which turns bytes into a valid string)...
you could then base64 decode it and have the bytes back
so base64 is the keyword of the topic i am looking for thx btw
so i do that and id have in string thanks to that decoding stuff
and then i can copy that by decoding again or something like that and put it in a spesific folder right thats it that it what i have to look for?
the way you write gives me a headache :d
im sry
so I'm gonna leave.
ok bb
what exe are you trying to package with your app and what are you attempting to do
just trying to autorun a exe when the computer starts so so there has to be a program (just a exe) which contains an exe which has to be copied into a folder
its something like a reminder of things and the teascher said it should automatically activate autostart
you should ask your teacher for help then, because what you are asking us to help you with is not a typical school assignment. you have probably miss interpreted what your assignment/teacher is asking you to do
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