All I can say Gary is wow, that's quite a recommendation.
You've given me a lot to think about.
What are you using for Reporting? Have you looked at any of the
Devexpress tools?
Their report tool looks real good.
Mike
>Mike:
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>>Also, the alternative is MM.Net which is 699.00, so am I getting twice the value?
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>It is infinately better than MM.Net - orders of magnitude better. I share Scott's view - I downloaded MM.Net and after Codemine, I kind of wondered "where is the framework?". It just doesn't seem to do anything. Everything you do has to be hand coded. There are very few widgets/gadgets. There is little or no intelligence in the interface. After all the years it has been around, it has only now just got a business object builder! The BO builder doesn't even produce a strongly typed BO. StrataFrame has a terrific BO builder that produces strongly typed BOs and very soon, it will provided many-to-many BO mapping - I am discussing the implementation with SF right now. It has superb controls and gadgets, builders, browse dialog builders and so forth. I also know that they are producing a raft of new "gadgets" that I cannot say too much about but suffice to say, it will be very exciting indeed.
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>I can tell you Mike, I don't consider myself "behind the door" with frameworks but I just didn't "get" MM.Net. However, I started using StrataFrame and thought, yes, this is what it should be like <s>. So, take my advice and don't buy on price. You will invest too much time in learning any framework to worry about a few hundred dollars. I was working with SF today and I was totally blown away with the kind of stuff I was able to achieve - I may have said this before but I will say it again; I am definately at the same point or further on that I was with Codemine in terms of RAD. I am really starting to produce top quality C#.Net Winforms applications very quickly indeed and everyone that sees them is highly impressed with the look, feel and responsiveness.
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>I also got my ActiPro UI Studio V2 upgrade today - with this stuff and SF, its like I am armed with secret weapons <bg>. Its so far and away better than coding in VFP - I am even starting to like ADO.Net 2 ;)
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>Best
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