Well, I don't know how all this would be done in InstallShield Express. I have only used the Setup Wizard (VFP 6).

With the Setup Wizard, I would create an installation that only includes the EXE.

Data should be maintained separately - if there are changes, you must create your custom program (in VFP), as I outlined.


>It sounds like Installshield Exrpress does NOT support parial updates.
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>Since updates would be fixes and would can I simply copy the execuatble (exe) to replace the original one?
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>>>I finally got installsheild express 3.5 in VFP 8 to work. Problem is that it only does an all or nothing install. For first install that is ok. But in the future I will want to only distribute files that changed, i.e. the application (exe) file and selected tables.
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>>>I do NOT want force an uninstall of the current version and I DEFINITELY do NOT want to wipe the tables which wiil contain the current data.
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>>>The upgrade paths view seems to imply that all existing files will be overwritten. Is that correct?
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>>>Can I do what I need to do, if so how?
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>>You can have an empty copy of the database (with the new structure), and write a small program that does an APPEND FROM for every table.
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>>To avoid "trigger failed", if you have a parent-child relation, you must copy the parent first. You can obtain the information with adbobjects(ArrayName, "relation").