>Hi all,
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>I was wondering if anyone has done any testing in VFP5 to see whether it's faster to load tables when running a form by using the DE or by issuing 'USE tablename IN 0' statements in the LOAD event of the form.
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>I remember back when I was using Codebook for VFP3 I read something about the load event method working considerably faster than the DE, but I'm wondering if they have improved the DE load times at all in 5 to be comparable.
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>TIA,
>Phil

I haven't tested it yet, but in theory, to me, Load event is a bit faster than DE because the latter deals with objects. I remember an article saying that the more object contained in a form, the more slower to load. Still, bottomline is the DE's ease of use, visual environment, and high level of maintainability, which are enough reasons of preferring to use it other than the Load Event.