The IDE is doing LOTS to make things "easier". IMO, you'll see a performance increase when the product is updated to take advantage of multi-core CPUs.

>I agree with you on both of these points. However, I think the delays in the interface of newer development tools are unneccesary and unacceptable. I love the IDE enhancements in VS2005 compared to other tools. But why do simple tasks take soooooooo long? My screen is tired of being told: "Wake up?"
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>I switch to FoxPro from C++ back in 1992 because I could get stuff done faster. Not because FoxPro was more powerful than C++ or had more classes or methods. But because I was more productive using FoxPro.
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>My original response was not about VFP vs. .NET. I think that is a pointless debate. I just disagreed with the post that VFP will be useless after 2012 because of its older IDE, when I think that modern IDEs are unnessecarily slow. I also believe that VFP will be capable of solving business problems long past 2012.