>Jeff,
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>>Is there any cure for this malady?
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>Take a look at the memory footprint in TaskManager between the VS and VFP. On my box VFP8 = 7.4mb (the taskpane doubles it), VS = 31mb without any projects/code open.

David;

Interesting observation! A far cry from the dBase II 64k S-100 machine I owned. I have enjoyed observing each version of dBase and FoxPro over the years and the amount of disk space as well as RAM requirements. I do not think my old Z-80 with 10 meg hard disk ($6000 for the hard disk in 1982) are up to these newer programs! :)

In addition to the hardware becoming obsolete the same is true of some developers I knew 20 years ago. You keep up with the technology or take a place on the garbage heap. Silicon Valley is such a "fun place to live"! (not really)

Tom