>>If you stay 100% fox. The app I work with uses three ocx's from dbi tech, it uses HTML help, it uses Crystal Reports... so, there is a bit of registering going on. Of course, the setup.exe takes care of all this.
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>Not that it is common practice, but you don't have to register a lot of this stuff, as long as it is in the same dir. You can use ActiveX controls and Crystal Reports without registering a thing.

I know the vfp runtimes can be deployed this way, but not sure about the vfp html help engine or the OCX's would work without being registered even if they are in the apps folder.

>O.k. but that is only the front end and middleware side. You did not install the server yet.
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>Walter,

True, but many of our clients are already SQL Server users, so that isn't an issue, they just add our database to one of their servers and on they go. But, I also certainly wouldn't AVOID all the benefits of SQL Server cause you have to install it... that's a one time task that doesn't take much time at all. Let's be practical here.

BOb