Perhaps you should look at Stonefield Database Toolkit.

For all the things it does and for that price it's a very good product.

http://www.stonefield.com

>I am trying to find out the best way to provide updates to clients running VFP applicaitons. I am now repsonsible for supporting a legacy FoxPro application that was installed with a self-extracting zip file. The previous person in my position used to deliver updates by telling the end user to rename their old directory, unpack the new zip file which contained the .exe, foxpro dll's, and a bunch of empty databases. The use then logs into the new application and launches a process to locate and import data from the old dbf's.
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>To me this seems very clumsy. I would like to use a tool like installshield, but I am not sure how it handles tables and views that have been changed and are not part of the executable, but retains the existing data.
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>Will Installshield work for this?
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>How is everyone else doing it?
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>Does anyone know if Installshield X supports VFP or if I have to use the one that comes with VFP 8?
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>Thank for the help!
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>Randy Wessels