Your points are well taken! Thanks for the help!

>Your network then is probably the source of most of the slowness you are experiencing.
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>I don't know of a single serious developer that ever directly uses a VFP Baseclass for anything but deriving their first level subclasses. These first level subclasses in my case fix what's wrong with the VFP Baseclass. Things like setting Label.AutoSize = .t. and BackStyle = transparent. Setting the checkbox.Value = .f. instead of the idiotic 0. Providing a common Error() method override so that all objects get proper error handling. Fixing the TextBox.KeyPress method so that backspace doesn't cause you to leave a field and start destroying the contents of the previous field.
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>From my subclasses everything else is derived. I also usually have a client classlib that puts a layer where I can make client wide changes and add the specific classes developed for the project.
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