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InstallShield unnecessarily complicated. Any other?
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Visual FoxPro
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Installation, Setup and Configuration
Miscellaneous
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00752116
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How does one create a merged module?

>You might take a look at the Visual Studio Installer.
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>As for a quick way of creating installions..what I did was take the things that are in all of my apps (activex's and such) and created my own merge module...that way all you have to do is just add the one merge module..heh.
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>>The Install Shield Visual Fox Edition that comes on the VFP 7 CD is un necessarily complicated. It sometimes takes longer to get a correct installation going than to actually write the app itself.
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>>I much prefer the VFP 6 install which, while not having all these flash options, did a reasonable job and took less than a minute to setup & complete.
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>>Maybe I am going about this the wrong way.
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>>Maybe someone has some sort of template that I can use when all I want is to install the App, some other files like tables, sometimes Activex and of course the runtimes?
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>>Is there some quick way of creating an installation in VFP 7 without spending hours going thru all those options?
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>>Please help as I am totally frustrated after it crashed on me for the nth time .
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>>Bernard
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