Okay, I've been struggling with this for full last couple of hours. I have a Windows 7 32-bit installation, on which I'm trying to compile some old code. I do not have any working knowledge of VB, but I'm trying to build a VB6 project which is part of the code base. The code compiles and when I run it after full-compile, it runs. But I can't seem to find where this file is. Task manager shows VB6 as process. It is not present in %TEMP%, and not in my project directory. Running an exhaustive search on my single drive configuration, I can find only one entry by this name, and this file has a timestamp older than current time. I attempted delete on this one while the debugger was still on breakpoint and it succeeded. As last resort in prefetch directory, I deleted that entry also, but magically this file still runs when on VB6. What must have been going on?
When you run an application within the VB6 IDE, it entirely runs within the VB6 IDE. Unlike some other languages, it isn't creating an executable file and then running it separately while hooking a debugger up, it just starts running your code using the VB interpreter.
To create a standalone .exe file, you need to create it separately. In the "File" menu, choose "Make projectname.exe". For full details, see "Making and Running an Executable File" in the Visual Basic 6 Concepts guide.