Hi Doug.

>One major problem I am having with using SDT for VFP 5 is that it doesn't improve upon the handling of maintaining views over VFP.

I'm currently working on a new version of SDT (5.1) that'll have a lot of new features, including better view support. For example, you can turn on an "auto-update view" flag, and any changes to things like field captions, rules, etc. will automatically be propagated to appropriate views. Even with this option turned off, you can still invoke it manually for a single view (when a view is selected in the Database Explorer, you can click on a button to grab the current properties from underlying fields and use them for the fields in the view). Another new feature (which hasn't been built yet but I'm working on it) is a view recreation function. When you modify the structure of a table in SDT, it'll automatically redefine any views based on that table. You'll also be able to click on a button to redefine the selected view (useful if you've made structural changes outside of SDT).

SDT 5.1 will be shipping by DevCon (mid-May).

Doug