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Windows 2000 and VFP runtime location
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01/07/2000 08:37:30
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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00387280
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Just MHO, but it seems almost certain that future versions of VFP would have to store the runtimes either in the application directory or the VFP HOME() directory or they lose out on Windows 2000 logo compliance.


>Windows 2000 changes the way applications organize their support DLLs. With VFP and other applications in the past, supporting DLLs were usually put into the windows system folder. Two questions:
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>1) With Windows 2000 should we be putting the VFP runtime DLLs into the application's directory to support this new DLL standard?
>2) Does the Foxteam support this?
>
>Under special circumstances in the past I have put in VFP DLLs into an application's directory and it has worked flawlessly, but this was not support by MS.
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson (Gonzo) RIP 2/19/05
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