>Hi Victor,
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>Thanks for get into this thread :-)
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>>I've used the Installshield Express that ships with with VFP to create MSI ...here is some info
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>So did I so many years ago. I recall it worked just fine of course. But did not solve a serious issue, requiring installation rights (ie admin ones). I also recall it looked a bit dated as well already back in these years. "dated", "passé" that was a bit reassuring commercially since it looked like good old win32 software. It used to be an advantage, it is now clearly a liability:-(
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>Anyway installers are of course only a small part of the technical party when it comes to deployment to-day!
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>>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/orca-exe
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>I just wonder what it does ! I'd be glad if you tell me more than the techno-speak on the MS website :-)
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>>...that being said, there might be a better way to do what you want - perhaps others will join in here :)
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>Sure. I also hope that some come over and explain how they get their "vfp-based" apps onto the workstations in 2021. I shared my tricks and secret weapons: boxedapp bundler accross-the-board exe consolidation + EV code-signing + zipped directory. And I hope others will share their experiences and possibly successful ones!
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>Daniel

Orca is more or less a way to look into the msi. Nothing you can't do with VFP too. Anyway its clumsy. https://www.heise.de/download/product/superorca-56658 is better, but. It's a waste of time to learn the deepness of msi and deal with it through the tables.
Forget about it. If you really like to deal with msi based installers, buy Installshield, now Revenera / Flexera. It's f.. expensive, but if you go for it, it's worth it's money. It's surface (IDE) is good enough for most cases, and if you really like to go for the tables, it comes with an editor. Well documented. The scripting lang is not that bad too,
It might be wise to understand the msi system - but even then working with Orca is like assembler by comparison.
And msi based installation as a mighty tool.