>When we open a form in form designer it takes a lot longer (some forms take up to 20 sec to open) than when running the form, especially if there are many tables in the form's DE.
>Does everybody see this or is just us?
>TIA

As others have said, something is not right, and it sounds like it's worth fixing your problem. I wouldn't want to wait 20 seconds every time I wanted to open a form, to be sure. And by contrast, I have, for example, one huge legacy formset in vfp7 that's incredibly busy, but still opens all the forms, tables, and classes, etc. in 1 or 2 seconds at most.

To troubleshoot, I'd start a new PRJ, and add things piece-by-piece, testing each time you add a form, class, DBC, etc., until it gets slow, then you have found the problem.

Or, it may never show up at all in a new PRJ - maybe a fresh rebuilding of your PRJ will fix things, by default...you may have something bad in a vfp metatable that vfp has trouble reading, for example.

Also, another thing I can think of that causes such delays is when a slow, difficult, or futile search for a net connection and/or file occurs. Those take around 20 seconds, and may not always give any message - can you think of anything in your PRJ that might do that - some kind of net search problem?