As of version 2.0, ProPath introduces an exciting new technology called "First Deploy"

This new feature makes it simple to distribute individual or groups of files, even entire data sets to UAC safe and CSIDL based locations at runtime.

 

Forget writing complex folder creation and file copy routines in your app.

 

Forget having to deposit files into the COMMON_DOCUMENTS folder with your installer and then copy them into user specific CSIDL locations (such as My Documents) when your program runs.

 

ProPath's First Deploy technology makes it easy for you to package any number of files into one or more deployment containers with the supplied ProPathLoader application (source included).

 

Those container files get distributed by your installer directly into the application directory.

 

Then at runtime ProPath will automatically create folders in CSIDL based locations (even with sub folders) and then distribute the files as needed.

 

You can even conditionally distribute files with such methods as "Always", "Once Only At Startup", "On Startup If Files Don't Exist", and "On Demand".

 

 

From such obvious uses as distributing a set of demo (or training) data with your application and making it the default data set when the program is first ran, to handling complex needs such as maintaining a different set of data for each year and making it simple for users to switch between the active data sets, First Deploy technology is the way to go.

 

For easy use, this help topic is broken into the following sections:

•First Deploy Export Groups

•Creating a deployment container with the ProPathLoader

•Enabling First Deploy in your application

•Deploying a group of files

•Deploying a data set