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By trial & error I've whittled down my ISX 3.54 errors down to only 2, one important-looking problem (#1) and one dumb-looking problem (#2):

1. "Error retrieving dependencies for vfp8runtime.msm"

In case anyone else runs across this: I had an older (vfp7) version of vfpoledb.msm in my ISX module folder - this caused the vfp8runtime "dependency" trouble. There are no messages to help discover this. I had to check MSM file dates by trial & error until I found the "funny" one.

2. "Outofspace for English: the scrollable text file "Readme" does not exist" (the Readme property is set to 0, same as with previous ISX builds)


There's a KB doc at the Installshield site for it. It's basically just from an ISX SP4 bug, and needs only a very minor adjustment.

Also, there was yet another problem: there are 2 GDI+ MSMs (at least in my module folder), and the correct one is "GDI Plus...", not the one called "GDI+"

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Check out Mike Stewart's Walkthrough: Creating a Visual FoxPro Application Setup Program Using InstallShield Express in VFP8 help or in MSDN online

See Also Whil Hentzen's 'Where is the Setup Wizard?' and Other Annoying InstallShield Questions at http://www.pinpub.com/ft (online subscribers only) -- tr

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I have Windows XP Professional running IIS and VFP8 installed. I am trying to use the version of InstallShield that came with VFP to package a server application for installation on a remote server. When building the application I get a foxpro(I think) message: [ISRegSpy detects the module c:\windows\AppPath\AcLayers.dll hooked into this process, which will cause ISRegSpy to malfunction. You need to shut down the application and restart COM extraction.]. Following this when OK is selected I receive the foxpro message: [Visual FoxPro cannot start. Could not load resources...]. The only option is OK.

Has anyone experienced this problem? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Tom



I think you need to install the VFP8 runtime files, gdiplus library, a visual c library and any other required files on the runtime PC (plus any other required files MDAC, active/X controls, etc).

The main merge files you need are:-

GDI Plus Redist module (VFP_GDIPlus.msm)
Microsoft Visual c++ 7 Runtime Library (MSVCR70.msm)
VFP8 runtime library (VFP8Runtime.msm)
VFP8 HTML help support library (VFP8HTMLHelp.msm), assuming you supply an online help file

Other modules, depending upon your use of XML, web services, supported languages, etc include :-

VFP8 language resource file(s) (vfp8r???.msm as required)
MSXML v3.0 (MSXML3_wim32.msm, MSXML3inf_wim32.msm, wdstddll_wim32.dll)
VFP ODBC Driver (VFPODBC.msm)
VFP OLE DB Provider (VFPOLEDB.msm)
MS Soap SDK files (SOAP_core.msm and isapi_files.msm or soap3_core.msm and isapi3_files.msm)

You can either create individual install routines, use Microsoft's for XML, SOAP, MDAC, etc or build one big install routine (I don't recommend this option, especially if downloading over a WAN or the internet).

I tend to use three install routines:-

1) VFP runtimes files, XML, SOAP, etc as these change very infrequently (service packs, etc)
2) Active/X controls, third party libraries used by all my applications
3) The actual application, data files and any other files

Hope this helps

Adrian Heath
Kuehne+Nagel

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See Also VFP 8 Runtime Files, VFP Runtime Files, Orca Editor

Category VFP Installations Category Installers Category VFP Tips And Tricks

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