On 11/20/2017 12:20 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

> Oh hell no....I haven't deployed to Program Files for YEARS.  Many

> here will tell you that you avoided so many M$ problems by installing

> in your own app folder off the root (C:\MBSS) instead of following

> M$'s advice.  Chime in all, if you want to give an "amen" for that.

>

Amen.

The best "architectural" decisions I've made on the Windows platform

have been those that have directly contradicted Microsoft "best

practice" statements.

Of course, when I mean best decision, I'm evaluating based on ease of

deployment, maintenance, upgrade, and error-tracing. Many of my

applications have run since Windows 98. Apart from coding to take

advantage of newer VFP features, I pretty much never had to spend time

fixing the design because of something MS did (although around the time

of Vista there was MessageBox() weirdness and "ghost" files...). I

compare that to what I've seen in massive rewrites of COM+,

Net<something... right after COM+?>, IE (browser-based) code (but

browsers were supposed to save us from that???!!! - ROFLMAO) - all

because of Windows version changes (or even just IE changes).

But, in agreement with Ted, if I was solely out to just keep a job due

to MS-created breakage, my decisions were probably not the best.

Hmmm.... I wonder if MS labeled those things as "best practices" because

they were best for MS: as in the best way to lock-in development staff

on Windows (play on laziness and lack of computer science knowledge),

and therefore lock-in the user base. Maybe MS wasn't as stupid as they

appeared to be.... Nah.

-Charlie

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