Hi Ed,

Sorry about the delay in responding to you. I have been out all day and there is some time difference between the States and Australia.

>>>>If free is an issue, then download VSI, and plan to spend some time getting up to speed with it. www.installsite.com is a good resource for working with VSI as well as the various versions of InstallShield out in the world.

Free is not an issue to me. I just feel let down. Installshield appears to be a great product – full version. In the cut down version provided with VFP7, it is completely useless after the initial install. You cannot get the upgrades to seamlessly take. Now I ask, has anybody every released software that didn’t have a bug and need subsequent upgrade?

All I am saying is that ISE/VFP7 is a lame duck and I believe that this forum is going to be filled with these types of comments over the coming months as other VFP developers start to look at distribution options. In all the earlier versions of VFP, it was conveniently supplied by the ‘setup’ option.

I know that a better option than ‘setup’ was needed. Why didn’t MS just come out and admit they didn’t have it? Perhaps, I am hoping too much for an ideal world!

Anyway, like Jeff Burke I have now found Inno Setup (www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) to be absolutely perfect for my purposes. It takes a few minutes to learn and runs about three times faster than ISE. And it seamlessly upgrades the earlier versions of my software.

Hopefully, sometime in the future MS will provide a full list of all files (not .msm files) needs for distribution.

Regards…Rex

>>>>If free is an issue, then download VSI, and plan to spend some time getting up to speed with it. www.installsite.com is a good resource for working with VSI as well as the various versions of InstallShield out in the world.
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>>>Hi Ed:
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>>>Clicking on www.installsite.com took me to the installsheild site. Is that what you were referring to?
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>>No; they sold their domain name to InstallShield, and are now at www.installsite.org
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>Thanks Ed.
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>- Ravi