William,
A long shot: I'm guessing the reason you can't install VFP on your customer's server is admin rights to register the VFP runtime? In other words, if you could install a pure XCOPY type solution, your customer might be more comfortable with your VFP based solution?
You can install a VFP EXE based app without registering the runtimes (just include all runtime files in your EXE's folder).
You *MAY* also be able to do the same with a VFP COM solution by using what's called a manifest file. I have not tried this, but can point you to the following UT post and articles on this extremely cool concept:
Use ActiveX without registration, Thread#
1012012Simple COM registration using a side-by-side method
http://www.red-gate.com/other/com_without_registration.htmMSDN Magazine April 2005 issue
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/RegFreeCOM/default.aspxSide-by-Side (SxS) registrationless COM/Active registration via manifests
Steve White has a walk through on SideBySide and registration free COM activation.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/rfacomwalk.aspI think SxS (side-by-side) COM with manifests is one of those "well kept secrets" that should be more well known. I use it whenever I can and encourage others to do the same.
http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/03/09/com-server-registration/If these articles help, please post back some tips for the rest of us!
Good luck!
Malcolm
>I wish I had the option of installing VFP9 on the server but that isn't going to happen at the client site. It looks like doing this using a direct VFP solution is out. Sure is annoying considering how easy it is to do on the local XP box - so close and yet so far away...
