>I have to develop an application to deliver to end clients. I developed it access with the runtime but the final project was too large, over 100 megs and end users has conflicts with other office projectes. Its a small relatively easy project.
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>In access I can do this in about a day. It has now taken me a month in Foxpro (granted I am learning all of the new basics and with the crappy documentation out the learning curve is hugh).
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>My question, Why doesn't microsoft take access or develop a product like it and allow it to compile to a single small executable? Ughhhhhhhh


MS Access is an end-user tool, delivered with MS-Office. It has a good enough language behind (VBA) for advanced users to do some coding. VFP is an object-oriented data-based language. In so many ways it is so much more porwerful than Access but that comes at the cost of more complexity and a learning curve, especially for someone not coming fro mXBase labguages and not having OOP experience.

Whatever questions or concrete problems you have, just ask away.

There is also a good source of VFP books, if you have not seen them at http://www.hentzenwerke.com
There is also an excellent repository of information at our Fox Wiki at http://fox.wikis.com