Charlie,
I've automated all of this in Installshield - register COM servers, security rights, launch the app. It's really not as hard as a lot of people make it out to be. You could launch a process as part of your installshield setup that automatically downloads the .NET runtime or launches a browser to the download page for it...
>Hi:
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>I'm putting together install documentation for an ASP.net application that uses VFP COM object for data access and a VFP database. The installers will have to install the VFP7 runtime in addition to the .NET rumtime to support the COM object. Is it available for download from somewhere so they can install it themselves? I would really like to avoid creating a special install program for the COM object or having them manually install and register files. Any ideas?
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>Thanx,
>Charlie