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Installing Service Pack 1
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20/03/2004 07:26:02
 
 
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20/03/2004 07:19:57
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
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00888092
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>If I install VFP 8 SP1 on my machine and create a new executable do I have to reinstall the vfp support files on my users machines(dlls, etc, create new package on Installshield)?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>No necessarily. Only if you (a) are making use of anything new in SP1 or (b) you are depending on something that was fixed in SP1 iro runtime. Its safest to do so but depends on what you are doing with SP1.
>
>IIRC, in VFP6, after installing SP5 on the developer machine, I had to install it on the user machines, too, or the program (compiled with SP5) would not run.

Hi Hilmar. I have tested this. Installed VFP8 SP1 on a machine. Re-compiled the exe. Copied exe to another machine. Ran the exe no problem at all. Obviously if I change the program to use anthing in SP1 not found / supported in previous VFP8 then I would have a problem. Also, one needs to test this but I was faced with the same problem - I wanted the design time fixes that SP1 had but could not handle, at that moment in time, updating 3000+ sites with the new dll's. So, bottom line, Roy should try it and test it out. User beware :)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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