Comments on: Windows Server 2016: Installing Visual FoxPro 9 IDE http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2016/11/windows-server-2016-installing-visual-foxpro-9-ide/ Shedding some light on topics of software development, Visual FoxPro, saving our planet, paying it forward, and anything else I find important enough to share. Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Rick Schummer http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2016/11/windows-server-2016-installing-visual-foxpro-9-ide/comment-page-1/#comment-1467 Rick Schummer Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:50:16 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/?p=1558#comment-1467 You can try running the VFP9 EXE as an Administrator to see if that is the problem. It is possibly the login ID you are under does not have access to the proper files. It sounds like you have a dependency in the code for SOAP. There are dependency files on the VFP 9 installer that should be installed as the first step and I believe one of the dependency files is related to SOAP, just in case you skipped this step in the install. If none of this works, I recommend posting the issue on Foxite.com or LevelExtreme.com where smart people hang out to answer questions about Visual FoxPro. You can try running the VFP9 EXE as an Administrator to see if that is the problem. It is possibly the login ID you are under does not have access to the proper files. It sounds like you have a dependency in the code for SOAP. There are dependency files on the VFP 9 installer that should be installed as the first step and I believe one of the dependency files is related to SOAP, just in case you skipped this step in the install.

If none of this works, I recommend posting the issue on Foxite.com or LevelExtreme.com where smart people hang out to answer questions about Visual FoxPro.

]]> By: Jim Mathewson http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2016/11/windows-server-2016-installing-visual-foxpro-9-ide/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 Jim Mathewson Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:54:58 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/?p=1558#comment-1466 Hello Rick, I am managing a legacy website which has a VFP back-end. The data preparation for this website is prepared in a much larger system which was custom-built to manage my wholesale import business, which I sold in 2009. We still use the relevant portions of this project to manage the website. The VFP project was installed in 2012 on Server 8 and has served us well since that time. The company's current ERP is Microsoft Dynamics NAV, from which I extract the data from MSSQL and transfer it to VFP. My problem is that we recently upgraded to Server 2016 and I am unable to complete my setup in this new environment. I followed your instructions carefully but when I run the following instruction, nothing happens: vfp9.exe /regserver The program is available but it is not added to the registry and there is no error message. Despite the above, most VFP activities seem to run well including: - reports with embedded photos - OLE automation with Excel - ADO.NET connection to MSSQL - ODBC connection to the MySQL website database but for one crucial activity, I get errors - I am unable to generate an EXE for the main project which is required to build all the data files for the website API. I suspect this may happen because VFP is not registered. When I try to build, I get the error message "Type Library MMSoap.SoapClient30 not found." (near the end of the build) Looking for another way out, I tried to run a copy of the EXE from the old installation on the new server, but I get this message: "Cannot locate the Microsoft Visual Foxpro support library" I am out of ideas and have very little experience with this type of problem. Your advice would be greatly appreciated, Jim Mathewson Hello Rick,

I am managing a legacy website which has a VFP back-end.

The data preparation for this website is prepared in a much larger system which was custom-built to manage my wholesale import business, which I sold in 2009. We still use the relevant portions of this project to manage the website. The VFP project was installed in 2012 on Server 8 and has served us well since that time.

The company’s current ERP is Microsoft Dynamics NAV, from which I extract the data from MSSQL and transfer it to VFP.

My problem is that we recently upgraded to Server 2016 and I am unable to complete my setup in this new environment.

I followed your instructions carefully but when I run the following instruction, nothing happens:

vfp9.exe /regserver

The program is available but it is not added to the registry and there is no error message.

Despite the above, most VFP activities seem to run well including:
– reports with embedded photos
– OLE automation with Excel
– ADO.NET connection to MSSQL
– ODBC connection to the MySQL website database

but for one crucial activity, I get errors – I am unable to generate an EXE for the main project which is required to build all the data files for the website API.
I suspect this may happen because VFP is not registered.

When I try to build, I get the error message “Type Library MMSoap.SoapClient30 not found.” (near the end of the build)

Looking for another way out, I tried to run a copy of the EXE from the old installation on the new server, but I get this message: “Cannot locate the Microsoft Visual Foxpro support library”

I am out of ideas and have very little experience with this type of problem.

Your advice would be greatly appreciated,

Jim Mathewson

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