Stephen,

>I just got the dreaded question, "Can we send this to our clients who don't have the internet?"
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>So first idea is to make "the installer from hell." One that reads each OS and can make a localhost no matter where in WIN it lands.
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>Data will be switched back to VFP from SQL Server, because I'm guesing that I'm going to hit allot of W98 machines ;)
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If it's going to be INSTALLED on Win98 machines, it can't be an ASP.NET applicaton. ASP.NET web applications require Windows 2000/IIS 5.0 and up. Additionally, if it's going to be installed as a WinForms app on Win98, the level of hardware on the Win98 machines may not support it well either. When Win98 was released, a baseline CPU/RAM was probably a P233MMX with 64MB RAM. I can't imagine deploying a WinForms app on anything less than a PII350 w 128MB RAM.

>Oh yeah, it's going all over the world to so are there issues outside of my normal day to day operations that I have to consider?
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Yes, because it requires your clients to understand IIS and administering a web application, plus many other issues.

>Lastly, is this nuts to think of doing this as ASP.NET and instead just make a WIN app?
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That's really a judgement call. It really depends on your clients' abilities and your resources for support of a web or Winforms application.

regards,

JE

>TIA
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>__Stephen