>Just Dangit! I'm a fairly skilled programmer, but a apparently a terrible typist/speller. 9 times out of 10 when I my app bombs (while I am running it from the IDE during development), it is not becuase of bad logic, but simply becuase I have misspelled a variable name in a method. Good grief I am tottaly tired of that. I sure wish the thing would figure that when I close the code window, or even better, when I am typing.
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>Things with intellisense support are fine, it's just stupid local vars defined right in the method that usually kill me.

I've gotten in the habit of copying/pasting variable names (especially if they're long and descriptive) to avoid this problem. Ironically, I started doing this when working in C#, where variable names are case-sensitive. Ironic, because VS catches these types of errors while compiling.

I'm trying to recall if there's ever been a static analysis tool for VFP that could point out variables that are never referenced, or that are referenced only once but I can't remember anything like that. If you could be sure you always (or should always) declare your variables before using them it would be possible to build such a tool, but with VFP that's not a legal requirement < g >