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What was Microsoft thinking about?
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21/02/2002 06:28:07
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
InstallShield
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00621233
Message ID:
00623043
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17
>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.
>
>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

There are fairly complex instructions on how to get ISE-VFP to do this in Message #608532
EMail: danielj@ryte-byte.com
"If I'm paddling so hard, how come I'm going backwards?" - Pinocchio (while the whale was swallowing him...)
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