VFP7 on Win7 Pro 64

[davisonpro]

I can't seem to get the VFP7 development environment to function correctly under Win7 Pro 64bit.

My program changes don't "take" - I've used both the VFP editor and tried an external editor. I've tried compiling the changed PRG and building the whole project (which also doesn't seem to want to work very well). I'm making very simple changes - text boxes and some minor logic changes. Even commenting out some code.

It runs the app OK but it only seems to want to run the old version of the code or it will just hang.

I'm a bit new to both VFP7 and to Win7. The app compiles fine on an XP machine and the compiled app runs perfectly on Win7. I just can't seem to be able to develop code on my Win7 box.

I'm probably doing something bonehead stupid but I've been trying to figure it out for about 2 weeks so, I'm asking.

BTW: I've searched this forum and Googled for hours. What am I missing?
I have the option to switch to VFP9 if I must but that would be another huge deployment project - over 1,500 users in the field.
Right now, I'd like to just get some minor code changes out there.
Thanks!
Al

 

[Dan Olsson]

What you maybe want to know is that you don't really NEED to "install" ANY version of FoxPro when you have an existing installation. You can just copy the directory somewhere else, even to another computer.
After that you might want to run VFP7.EXE /regserver to get most things registered. The one thing that could be tricky is to get the helpfile to respond to F1.

 

[TamarGranor]

What you maybe want to know is that you don't really NEED to "install" ANY version of FoxPro when you have an existing installation. You can just copy the directory somewhere else, even to another computer.
After that you might want to run VFP7.EXE /regserver to get most things registered. The one thing that could be tricky is to get the helpfile to respond to F1.

While that's true, without doing an actual install, you lose some capabilities. You don't have any ActiveX controls that get installed with VFP (unless they've been installed elsewhere). As a result, some of the VFP tools can't run.

Also, the Projects and Files objects aren't available without installing.

I ran into this recently working on a client machine where users don't have admin rights, so I was running from the VFP 9 CD (which I'd never known you could do).

Tamar