With VBP v7, a couple of options:
1) During installation, choose the
Minimal installation option, which installs only the
console app (see
Introduction -> Installation in the installed help for more details) for building but not editing projects
2) The runtime version of Visual Build can be used for build-only installations. You can learn more about it here:
http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/Runtime/
We are also considering providing a read-only capability for the GUI app (requiring entry of a password in order to modify) in a future release.