C'mon in this day and age of 100 meg software installations installing a 4.5meg runtime is hardly an issue. Throw it into your own installer and say it's part of your application. This should NOT be a big issue any more...
It's all in the packaging.
+++ Rick ---
>Hank,
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>I strongly second this, it has been an ER many times, even I have wished it couple of time too :). I keep dreaming to send only a small VFP exe app without the runtimes or server having runtimes already installed.
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>But just about always it was rejected because of synchro issue.
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>I myself cannot see any synchro issue there because Windows has it update system to keep it synhro if needed (which I believe can be started also by a VFP app not in synchro or VFP can be modified to do so). It's just MS taking the first step and include runtimes somehow to the OS, through .NET framework or through other ways doesn't matter if only it is included.
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>VB has it, C has it NET has it and just about everybody else has it but VFP doesn't. The question arises - why?
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>Regards,
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>AT