I'm sorry you are having troubles, but I can say that I've been using VFP 8 as my sole development tool for quite some time and have not had any major troubles with it.

Cathy



>HOW MANY BUGS??????
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>If I was using it for a serious project right now I would've thrown the monitor on the floor in a bid to smash it into a trillion pieces.
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>It's already trashed a DB in a small "test" project, and it crashes constantly when just doing routine things, like running a form, if there is an error in the code it seems to crash out.
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>I'm using XP, but I don't think that should be an issue.
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>Perhaps this one was released too soon, I don't know.
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>Kev