Main benefit, using my own lightweight framework, I can build whole apps quickly, upgrade the base classes with additional functionality which can be inherited by all my apps, and who has the time to maintain 18 Megs of code anyway? :)

Bob

>Sounds reasonable. The first things I always map out are my classes. Just works better that way.
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>>I have a good set of flexible base classes that contain much of the functionality so the individual forms work with almost no code, just the fields and some validation stuff (even that can be data driven). This way you can have many forms and a complex program without adding alot of bytes. Also makes the maintenance easier, program run faster, and the interface more consistant.
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>>Bob
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>>>Define that: "Very OOP" .. :-)
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>>>>Same here 1.5 - 4 Meg with Debug info, trick is to keep it very OOP, runs much quicker that way :)
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>>>>Bob
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>>>>>Judging by the replies, I wonder what I am doing wrong because none of my EXEs exceeds 4 MB. And one of these applications is very, very complicated.
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>>>>>>Mine's 6.4MB and it's not even half-way through yet, I'm not sure if it causes any problems/speed issues - I wouldn't have thought so.
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>>>>>>Kev