>I keep seeing reason NOT to upgrade. What are the big reasons to go from VFP8 to VFP9? I'm talking about day-to-day stuff. The things that really matter.

You probably already know about the Report Designer improvements. There are also a lot of improvements to the SQL language, making it possible to do a lot more with a single query.

I consider MemberData a big deal. It gives you, among other things, the ability to have your custom properties and methods, capitalized the way you want them.

Another that I use every day is the ability to substitute your own responses to menu items. In particular, I use the improved New Property/Method dialog written by Doug Hennig that comes as a sample.

I consider anchoring a big win, too. When I need resizable forms, I can determine their behavior without (much) special code.

The other item I use a lot is the CAST() function that lets me change data types on the fly.

I'm sure others will have other things they use all the time.

Tamar