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Could VFP9 runtimes be shipped with .NET framework?
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro and .NET
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01030370
Message ID:
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>>"For now, I think it would be neat if the MS Fox Team could figure out a way to weasel in a single download page on the VFP Section of the MS Site where an all-in-one VFP runtime install could be started from..."
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>>I Totally agree, it's just too stupid to ask a customer, or a developer for that matter, to go to a non-MSFT website to download the runtime files. MSFT should have a VFP runtime download page, with a subpage for each VFP version, each with their own subpage for the different language versions.
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>But the VFP runtime files are not free nor are not freely available in general. The VFP runtime files are only available to licensed users of VFP to distribute their VFP applications with.

But a stub program like the one suggested by Craig can be also used to validate that the downloader is a VFP user, for it is downloading from inside a VFP program
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