>Hello,
> I am using VFP8 SP1. I was wondering how everyone has set up their development directories? I have something set up, but it is of my own design and am not sure if it really meets my needs. Is there a book or paper I can reference? I would appreciate help, including optimazation for deployment or selling an application and creating installation media.
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>Thanks,
>Bob

One important thing is to make most, or all, of your path information, relative instead of absolute. The program should continue working correctly, if you change it to another disk or directory.

Apart from that, I would recommend the following structure:

Create a main directory for all your projects, which you may call c:\projects.

Underneath that, you can put your individual projects, for instance, c:\projects\accounting.

Each project directory directly contains the project file, and a few others; then you can have sub-directories for forms, libraries, header (.h) file, programs, bitmaps, help (the components of your help system).

I also found it useful to create a directory "tools", outside of any individual project, for development tools which I use for more than one project. For example, this might include a utility to switch between projects, a utility for viewing RI information in a database, and others.