Like many, I am very excitted about moving to vfp8. We have just now started to distribute or latest application to clients. Right now it is only in three sites, but by march we are scheduled to have it in another 12 sites. My question is on what is going to have to be installed on the workstations that might not already be there.

Our current distribution is as follows:

Load SQL Server 2000 database on database server.
Create an update directory on the network.
Run a client setup routine on each workstation.
Application launcher checks the update directory for exe, dll and report updates, if it finds any it pulls it into the working directory of the workstation from the network.

I'm wondering if I am going to have to create a new setup routine to send to the users and have them run on each workstation. Or if it is just the vfp8*.dll's, and my launcher is compiled in vfp7; I should be able to run the launcher after putting the vfp8*.dll in the update directory along with the new exe. The launcher will use the vfp7 dlls, pull down all the new stuff, the new exe in vfp8 will now how the vfp8*.dll in the working directory and should start.

Thanks for any insight.
Kirk