Deploying Visual FoxPro solutions

Deploying Visual FoxPro solutions / Rick Schummer, Rick Borup, Jacci Adams.

Ship it! Music to your ears or words that cause a cold sweat as you realize you now need to deploy the solution you have worked on for so long? Have you planned the deployment? Do you have the proper language in your contract with your customer? Do you have the proper install package? Do you even kn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schummer, Rick
Other Authors: Borup, Rick, Adams, Jacci
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Whitefish Bay, Wis. : Hentzenwerke Pub., ©2004.
Subjects:
Visual FoxPro for Windows.
Visual FoxPro for Windows
Database management.
Application software > Development.
Computer software > Marketing.
Selling > Computer programs.
Application software > Development
Computer software > Marketing
Database management
Selling > Computer programs
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Table of Contents:
  • Our Contract with You, The Reader
  • List of Chapters
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
  • How to Download the Files
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Deployment Fundamentals
  • What is deployment?
  • Installation is only part of deployment
  • Pre-implementation
  • Implementation
  • Post-Implementation
  • Why you should care (why it is so important to get it right!)
  • Do I need a Setup?
  • A basic checklist for deploying Visual FoxPro apps
  • VFP Source Code issues
  • Customer environment
  • Application specific testing
  • Network and Operating System issues.
  • General hardware requirements: What do you need physically besides VFP to deploy a solution?
  • Can't avoid this: What you must include for deployment
  • Can't touch this, or can you?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Planning for Success
  • Computing Environment
  • Workstation inventory
  • OS Platforms
  • Networking
  • Database platforms
  • Integration with other applications and technologies
  • Internet connectivity
  • Physical office layout
  • Need to order new equipment
  • Dealing with the unexpected
  • Clients
  • Dealing with customers
  • Working with subject matter experts.
  • Talking to the real or end users
  • Handling those "special case" customers
  • Preparation
  • Images
  • EXE version details
  • Training materials for end users
  • Training materials for support staff
  • Duplication
  • User communications
  • Determining ship readiness
  • Requirements
  • Feature sets
  • Prototypes
  • Preparing customers for testing
  • Delivery dates
  • Sign-on
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Packaging the Installation
  • When is it ready?
  • Getting ready for delivery
  • Testing
  • Executable components
  • Help
  • Data conversion
  • Visual FoxPro runtimes and dependencies.
  • Third party controls and libraries
  • Organizing the setup
  • Directories
  • Installation schemes/feature sets
  • How do you package the install?
  • OS and third party components
  • Utilities to consider shipping
  • Delivery mechanisms
  • Diskettes
  • Zip/Jaz/SuperDisk disks
  • Memory sticks
  • CD-ROM and DVDs
  • E-mail
  • FTP
  • Web site downloads
  • Symantec's pcAnywhere
  • Terminal Services and Citrix
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Setup Tool Roundup
  • What is a setup?
  • What features are available?
  • What tools are available?
  • ActiveDelivery
  • Ghost Installer Studio
  • Inno Setup.
  • InstaFox
  • InstallShield
  • Setup Factory
  • Tarma Installer
  • Wise Solutions
  • Why are the current installer tools better than the VFP Setup Wizard?
  • Deployment Tool Selection Process
  • Products Considered
  • Making the choice
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Windows Installer Inside and Out
  • Overview of Windows Installer
  • The evolution of software installation
  • The arrival of Windows Installer
  • Windows Installer Design Objectives
  • Working with Windows Installer
  • Structure of a Windows Installer setup package
  • Features and components
  • Merge Modules
  • Inside an MSI file.

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