I was really struggling to get some variables into VS2008 DataDude. We have developers on WinXP, Win Vista and have to deploy on Win2008. It's for a website and WinXP has ASPNET as IIS user and the rest has "Network Service". This was a problem and I believe I fixed it.
I've blogged about it here and I hope I can help other people as well. I hope I don't offend people with this, I don't want to plug my weblog, but it seems nonsense to post it both here and on my weblog. And as it's not 100% finalbuilder related, I found my blog more approriate.
That’s great, we’re very happy to see you blogging about uses of FinalBuilder. :-). No problems at all with mentioning it here.
I only have one nitpick from your blog post, and it’s a common misconception - you don’t need to use the Define Variable action to add a new variable to your project. Define Variable is really only used when you want to define a completely dynamic variable (ie you don’t know the name of the variable before the project runs.) It’s an extreme “edge case.”
We strongly recommend using the Edit Variables dialog in the FB IDE, under Tools -> Edit Variables.