>Is it better to add the view to the database at development then when the application goes out send out a new database, or write the view in code and run it each time the form is run.

We always use our own code to create DBCs. That way the DBC generation prg can be stored in VSS. I would just send out a new database. Otherwise you are asking the user to wait, perhaps a whole half second, to create the very same DBC each time the app starts. If you want to re-create the DBC, you could always code that into you Tools/Options Tools/Data Dictionary part of the app.