>Are we talking about the same issue?

Probably not.

> In VFP7 you can create two arrays with 65000 elements each and assign new objects to each element. In VFP 6 and before this doesn't work, because each object is registered in the NTI and therefore the total number of objects can't exceed 65000. I hope you didn't meant that VFP 8 behaves the old VFP 6 way?

No, not at all. In fact, I am sure 7.0 still puts object references in the NTI (haven't bothered to check yet, and no debug version on my home box). I think the fix was something other than removing user objects from the NTI. Removing user objects from the NTI would most assuredly break many things, and would likely involve rewriting a lot of VFP source code. I just know that when I run an app, suspend, and then do a dump of the NTI, I see user-defined objects in there. Today or tomorrow I'll poke around and see how the your issue was handled.