>I have noticed in dowloading classes from Rick Strahl's site that he uses code to build his classes. What is the advantage of using DEFINE..ENDDEFINE over the VCX ( or vice versa)? Or does it really matter how classes are built/

In my experience, code classes are quicker to instantiate (don't have to access the table based VCX), and for non-visual work, many times are easier to mantain, but this is just a personal opinion.

There are people who prefers to code even some visual classes that requires a lot of control over sizes, formats, at that.

Mainly, is just a matter of tastes.