>Updating code on a client's site has always been an issue with our VFP >product. We do so many modifications and fixes that we are constanly needing >to update the clients... and this never seems easy.

>One problem is that if I change a .VCX then I have to recompile the >application and send out the whole 25+ megs. The size alone can be a bear >>(having to move that large an EXE across the wire), and beyond that having to >compile the whole thing as an EXE is sometimes complicated by that causing >problems elsewhere.

>So as I was reading info about SET CLASSLIB TO I noticed stuff about setting >the library IN lcEXE. My question is... Is compiling an EXE of just classes >that can be referenced a good idea? Will it
>1) Make the main EXE smaller
>2) Provide a smaller chunk of changes to be sent
>3) Be more protable because other EXE's can reference the EXE of classes
>4) Be a good idea.. I mean will it slow things down a bunch... or is there >some other complication I'm just not seeing?

>Just one of my whacky thoughts on improving my programming structure. Let me >know your thoughts.. and thanks in advance!

>Shawn Burke
>DRI Management Systems

I had an EXE that was 5meg at some point and I decided to try to exclude everyting I could out of it (including libraries and forms etc.) and if you manage thing well you could end up with an EXE of less than 100k. It jus load a menu.