>>>>Let me have your opinions (open the flood gates! (s)).
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>>>>I am wondering that with the release of VFP 5.0 any 'real' VFP programmer will have a need to use VB for ANYTHING? VB used is a great coding platform & has good connection to APIs, etc. But with the release of VFP 5 does VFP have at least that much power if not more?
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>>>>Bottom line is should I cast away my VB shingle & totally concentrate on VFP?
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>>>>Thanks
>>>>Tom
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>>>Last year I have converted two VB3.0 system into VFP3.0. I am real Fox person and am really happy with this job. For many reasons VFP works better, the only concern that VFoxpro forms (especially huge ones) take more time to load than in VB. I did'n work with VFP5.0 yet and would like to know how it's going in this version.
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>>In VFP 5.0 the forms load faster -- major concern & #1 priority of MS. One reason I would guess VB form loading is faster is that VB does not support inheritence (Scot says it does -- CTRL+C (s)). I could see where inheritence would slow form loading since it must read all the 'layers' of each object.
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>>Thanks
>>Tom
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>Thank You. You've relieved my pain. The main problem with slow loading is when a form contains OCX (especially 3-rd party). Did you try it in VFP?


To be quite honest I have not done any detailed analysis on VFP 5. I have been just too busy cranking code out to make comparisons between the forms in VFP 3 & 5. But form loading is noticeably faster inn VFP 5. Did not take a rocket scientist to see that one. (s)

HTH,
Tom