>>May I borrow your idea?:-)
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>>I wonder if "commercial" framework projects fall under "new build" or the "customized" projects?
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>we try to support backward compatibility of VFX, but from day to day it become harder task.

My problem with frameworks is that the developer has to learn two programming platforms. If you have a "software shop", you have to exclude really good VFP developers when filling a position for developers that have split thier expertise between fox and the fw.

For speed and power, VFP by itself is all that is needed. I never understood frameworks. The kinds of projects we do with VFP are not rocket science - they're pretty simple. A framework implies that the task is too complicated for the developer to 'map" out with just VFP. And, a framework, just puts a bit too much "fat" in the broth for my liking. There was a time I could spot whiich framework "brand" a shop used just by the way the GUIs looked and slogged!:-)