Hi, Mike.

>This is going to come across as quite naive, so apologies up front. I haven't looked at the Application framework shipped with VFP in quite some time. A brief cursory look indicates to me that it is still very very basic and not a sufficient replacement for 3rd party frameworks without developer extension. Am I wrong about this?

Definitively. Not comparable with the commercial frameworks, but you may take a look at the Open Source one I have at SourceForge.net:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tieradapter/

We are running a series of articles about it, and I'll post that also at SF.net soon.

Regards,