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A Great VFP-exe Deployment Experience-:)
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04/03/2019 06:02:23
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
 
 
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04/02/2019 09:56:36
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01665893
Message ID:
01666949
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>Hi all,
>
>We deliver VFP9-based applications. As most of us, these apps include a "bandwagon" of dlls of various natures. And, as possibly a few of you UT members, we appreciate applications that DO NOT require admin rights or complex installers to start with.
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>Just a very short message to say we have been quite satisfied with our new deployment solution. We have started to use BoxedApp as way to confortably deploy VFP applications for a while. That's a great tool that will decently encapsulate the VFP-exe, its dlls and associated resources (including COM-based ones) as a single standalone executable with no admin rights requirements. Some sort of improved molebox (defunct solution).
>
>We just started to explore the combination - REFOX + BOXEDAPP - as a way to deliver the same service (ie a standalone output) with a obfuscated executable... And yep, it looks like a great combination.
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>Of course that ain't free and we definitely paid for both tools. But the standalone executable is REALLY compact - below 10B in our case - and that's definitely much smaller than the inital VFP executable (5Mb), the long string of deployment-requested dlls (15Mb) :-)
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>Load time is not significantly higher on decent machines by the way:-)
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>It is not a fully tested setup. And we need more feedback from our corporate users. That will come during the next months with the feedback of corporate users deploying in hardened Windows setups... But, this is promising for sure:-)
>
>Daniel

We bought BoxedApp and Enigma for our VFP9 app. Both of these works great unless Atom CPU computers. Both of them works slow at Atom CPU. So we tried free edition of Enigma, it works good. It doesn't protect .EXE file with free edition (So this's why it works fast, there isn't any protect algorithm), just we don't need any installer for .DLL files, it creates one .EXE without need of setup.
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