Appendix E: Third Party Tools


Overview

Third party tools are produced because developers either found something lacking in the process of developing custom software solutions, or vendors somehow found a better or more automated way to solve a problem we frequently run into when we craft solutions for our customers. Today, more than any time in the computing age, we find ourselves purchasing or finding free tools to make our lives easier as we deploy applications to our clients .

This appendix attempts to list some of the indispensable tools we regularly use in any stage of deployment. These tools range from freebies developed by other developers for themselves and made available to the community at-large, to commercial products, which you invest some hard-earned cash into for some productivity gains that pay dividends immediately and likely for years to come.

We did not include any of the deployment package authoring tools. If you are looking for this information see Chapter 4, ‚“Setup Tool Roundup. ‚½ This appendix does not intend to serve as an advertisement for these tools (we did not accept any bribes to include these products in this appendix), nor do we intend on providing a complete review of the products. What we hope to provide is a list of products, with a brief description of how they solve some issue with deployment, where you can get more information about them, where you can get them (developer/vendor Web sites), and how much they cost at the time of the writing. Prices fluctuate based on economic market pressures, version updates, and special offers from the vendors and retailers. We found prices changed even as we were writing and editing this appendix so we recommend using the prices we included as a general guide and check with the vendor pricing if you are interested in purchasing them.




Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions
Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions
ISBN: 1930919328
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 232

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