>>well as a programmer I program for a reason and I am asking whats the reason for a dynamic form and what the benefit to a dynamic for over a regular form
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>Ah, yes, I am asking the same questions. I don't know, but i would like to find out!
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Why is everyone so shocked at the Dynamic Screen concept? Ever heard of a Factory?
It's practically how FoxPro compiles.

This concept is as old as FoxBase and Clipper. It was usually referred to as "Data Driven". Art Fuller was big on this, about 8 years ago, with his ArtFull library. (Which I thought was great).
The benefit was to be able to make screen changes without having to recompile. Changes to a table structures did not require a new application program. Validation routines could be custom called via macros etc. It made customization easy and could even be used to allow a client to add or remove known fields.

I would say that the technique has been obsoleted by object oriented languages like VFP. That may be why the VB guys were doing it.