Hugh,

Thanks for starting a most interesting and timely thread. I've found ISX-LE frustrating, convoluted, error-prone and poorly documented. In fact, the title of your thread summarizes it nicely, thank you. Thinking this must be MY problem, I was about ready to upgrade to ISX 4 in hopes that the full product might actually be usable.

I don't do many installs -- perhaps only a couple a year -- and they're not complicated projects. Just put a dozen or so files in the right places and register the necessary dll and ocx files. There's not even any data to install. It doesn't have to be pretty; IT people run the installations remotely from a network drive. And most importantly, I don't want to spend hours re-learning a large application each time I need to create an installation. In short, I don't need a Ferrari, just give me a scooter but make sure it works!

I'll definitely look at the alternatives suggested here before I fork over $249 for version 4.0. While it may have more features (works with .NET, etc), I'd be more impressed with less complexity and better documentation, especially some VFP-specific examples. If I can't have that, I might as well go for simplicity.