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The Size of the EXE !
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Visual FoxPro
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Project manager
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00567623
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Daniel,

I'm not sure if this is your problem or not, but I'll explain a situation we ran into a while back.

We were developing mutliple products using the same group of common class libraries across all products. When I went to build the EXE for the product I was working on, I chose the 'Recompile All Files' option. VFP then recompiled all the files, including these common class libraries. Under normal circumstances, VFP packs the memo fields that contain the compiled class code, but since we had multiple developers accessing these libraries, VFP couldn't get exclusive access to the libraries and hence, the pack was not possible which caused these files to grow each time and made the EXE grow as well.

My solution was to get exclusive access to these class libraries and cleanup them up by packing them. I also stopped using the 'Recompile All Files' option and haven't had this problem anymore.

Good luck -
Scott

>Well we have spent months creating the new application on to find that the
>EXE file is over 15Mb and that does not include the \Reports or \Graphics
>that we have excluded from the Project Manager.
>
>We cannot have an EXE that size, especially if we want to produce a patch/patch every three months, which will be required to update the application with the latest information. Client will get fed-up of downloading such a large file every quarter.
>
>Obviously, we need to split this up into bits...How ?
>
>We can't find a solution within the Project manager
>
>Regards
>
>Daniel
>
>PS Has anyone found a copy of VFP7 upgrade in the United Kingdom...if so where ?
Scott King
The Support Source Corporation
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