Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions (Paperback)

~ Rick Schummer (Author), Rick Borup (Author), Jacci Adams (Author)

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A comprehensive resource for setting up, installing, maintaining, and distributing software written in Visual FoxPro, this guide will help developers launch a successful application deployment. Covered in complete detail are Windows Installer, Windows compliancy, and InstallShield Express. Developers can follow along with examples of different types of InstallShield Express installations from start to finish, including possible pitfalls and behind-the-scenes information. Other topics covered in full include security issues; upgrading techniques; shareware, freeware, and commercial sales; data backups and recovery; legal issues; and integration with other software.

About the Author

Sally Guenette specializes in developing custom applications in Visual FoxPro as the president of CBN Systems Corporation. She has developed, adopted, migrated, and reengineered hundreds of business applications in all versions of Fox starting with FoxBase. She lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Hentzenwerke Publishing; 2nd edition (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930919328
• ISBN-13: 978-1930919327
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,291,388 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving your Application Out to the Real Users,

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First, what this book is not:

1. It's not a book on database design.
2. It is not a book on SQL or even on VB programming.

Instead, this is a book on deploying a solution after it is developed into a production environment. It is broken down into three major parts: Pre-implementation (Planning), Implementation, and Post-Implementation (Checking up with the end users).

Within these areas there are chapters on the tools available to help you manage installations. This includes the Setup Tools, Windows Installer, and the lite version of InstallShield which will make your installation process look very professional indeed and with only a small amount of work.

Obviously you aren't going to go to this much effort if you are just installing one copy in your own office. But if you are preparing something for installation at a few hundred or thousand branch offices around the country or the world, this is the only book I know of that provides the kind of help you will need. Besides that, it is very well done.