Agenda for the Online Seminar

• Concepts: Building All Objects into an EXE vs. Dynamic External
  • Objects (DEO) vs. “Hybrid”
    • Building all objects into an EXE is the simplest method
    • DEO allows for easy updates to an application, but is a bit more complicated
    • Hybrid is a mix of the other two, using abilities of the dBASE Runtime


• Concepts: Using the Windows UAC (User Access Control) or not. (Hint, for this class we want to be “good Windows citizens”, so will be using it)
  • Creating a “Start” program that runs the application.
  • Create a new Project
  • Add appropriate files and deal with options for some of them.
    • Look at specific settings for files (DEO Folders)
    • Create/modify a .INI file for the application
  • User BDE Aliases versus “standard” BDE Aliases
  • Build and test the executable
    • Discuss the log for the project, and why cleaning it out is useful


• Get the Runtime Installer if you don’t already have it (dBase website)


• Look at Deployment Options
  • Using the Project Explorer
    • Settings can be a little confusing, but for some users may be easier
  • Creating your own deployment script
    • More flexible and less confusing, a bit more work


• Test the deployment


• Look at where the files get installed, some are not in places you might expect


• Questions and Answers