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What was Microsoft thinking about?
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Visual FoxPro
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InstallShield
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00621233
Message ID:
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Rex,
The ISE Limited version is a huge improvement over the setup wizard, and, in most cases, will do whatever you want. I posted the reasons why you might want to upgrade to the full version in Message #612296, but, you only really need to upgrade in very specialized situations.

>Hi All,
>
>Does the VFP community realise that the Installshield Express program has the program upgrade feature disabled?
>
>What this means is that your users are going to '...have to uninstall the previous version and install the current version...' if they want to upgarde your product. Well, that's what the Upgrade Paths View help screen says in ISh Express.
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>If this is right, what could Microsoft have been thinking about? Do they really believe that users don't upgrade? Or that developers don't provide upgrades? Why should I have to purchase a full version of Installshield to get this feature?
>
>Quite frankly, I am not very happy with this state of affairs and neither should you. My users are not the type that I would be comfortable going to Control Panel and the Add/Remove panel. The old 'Setup' wizard did a great job.
>
>Rex Toomey
>Sydney Australia
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