Re: VFP Updates?

Hi Linn,

I, as you, am not a full time VFP developer and maybe even further
behind than yourself. Reading the article Dan pointed you toward
enforced that belief. It seems there are at least a dozen major
considerations for installing and running a VFP app in Vista.

However, I think there's a saving grace: If you don't need to register
components or DLL's, and your users can tolerate the "annoyance" of
another root directory (most of my users don't even know what a root
directory/folder IS), and you don't need to write to registry, I think
you could put the app and the data in shared folder(s) and not have to
deal with XP/Vista differences.

Note: I've used config files, .mem files and memo fields to hold user
settings in various apps. I think that is more reliable than writing
them to the registry. They can be part of the user's normal backup and
can be easily reloaded if the user has to reformat or wants to reload
the app on another computer while saving his/her settings.
Registry--that's a different story for the average user.

Anyway, that's my 2c.

Steve


On Thu, 14 May 2009 09:34:55 -0500, "Linn Kubler"
<lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I just realized how far behind I had fallen. I don't do development as a
full-time job, I do it quite sparatically. That said I realize that I'm
still running VFP 9.0 sp1 and developing specifically for XP. However I
soon will need to support Vista so I'm wondering what I need to do
differently, if anything, in my applications to allow them to function in
Vista? I see there is a service pack 2 available and something called
Sedna, not sure what that's all about. Can anyone fill me in?

Thanks in advance,
Linn

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