>What is the best way to track changes? Would Visual SourceSafe be of any help?

I would say... source safe or PVCS Version manager is a great way to track them. I don't even do single user development now without using it.

>Is it possible to automate the updates from the development version to the >production version at a given time?

There are a couple of things here...

1. App Loader - See article by Doug Hennig in FoxTalk - this will allow for updating .EXE,.DLLs and other support files to a shared directory... when the user runs his ap, it will see the new files an downlaod them to the workstation.

2. StoneField Database Toolkit... This has a feature that allows you to ship a new DBC and MetaData tables, then with a call to Update() it will correct any structures of tables that need to be modified. (BTW: Also written by Doug Hennig)

BOb