>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

If you decide to go the framework path there's another framework that has'nt been mentioned. CodeMine. It's pretty easy to use even if you don't have much VFP experience.