This was listed as the official support forum at the ActiveVFP site, and I see no ActiveVFP "area" so I hope this is the appropriate place for my message.

Basically, we are unable to use ActiveVFP. We have tried installing on three different PC's so far, two with VFP6 and VFP7, and one with VFP6 only. Among the errors during the installation are notices that various files (DLL's?) failed to register, and that it cannot locate the Visual Foxpro support files. I can post the exact messages, but because this seems like such a big problem, I would imagine that these are well-known problems. We did download the VFP8 (why is this built using beta code??) support files but that makes no difference (regardless of where they're placed -- the directed indicated in the ZIP, the \windows\system, the dir where the install starts). My boss installed the complete FoxPro 8 beta and was able to get it to install, so I had my guy do the same, but even past the install, there are problems just building a demo project apparently. I am not going to install the VFP8 beta, since I don't want to risk incompatibility problems (replacing VFP6/7 files) with current software that's built to be released from my PC.

So my question is, why is this so difficult to install and use? Are the installation problems common? Is the full VFP8 beta install required in order to use this?