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Office 2000 not allow VFP6R.dll to install?
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00362846
Message ID:
00362851
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>We have a problem occuring with Office 2000 and VFP6.
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>If a customer has a older version of our product which is written in VFP5 and has Office 2000 installed, everything works great.
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>However when they install our latest version which is written in VFP6, as soon as they go to launch our product they receive the "Cannot Locate Visual FoxPro Support Library" error message.
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>This problem only occurs as described above. If a brand new customer installs our VFP6 product and has Office 2000, everything works. Or if a customer upgrades to our VFP6 product first and then installs Office 2000, everything works.
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>We are using InstallShield and have been for the past 3 years without any problems. This has only started occuring as our customers who have Office 2000 have begun to upgrade to our VFP6 product. It almost seems like Office 2000 is preventing the installation of the VFP6R.DLL.
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>Any suggestions?

This could be a DCOM/IE/DLL issue. Make sure that people having problems have the latest DCOM installed (especially if running Win95) and at least IE 4.0.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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