Do you like support that MM provides for their .NET framework?

Thank you,
Yelena




>AFAIK it has the best support for the frameworks on the market.
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>We talked about frameworks briefly with my colleague just recently...
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>After working with MereMortals for more than a year I can say it's a very good and solid framework and can get you up to speed very quickly. The concepts are right and the transition to MM .NET framework is going to be easier. But the lack of support probably means that this framework will loose its popularity...
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>>I haven't reviewed this book myself but it may help you get started if you decide to build your own framework (or portions of one):
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>>http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/buildfox.htm
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>>I have used Visual FoxExpress in the past with VFP6 and VFP7. It was well worth the cost. More valuable than the ease and speed in developing apps it provided was the information available on separation of tiers and framework design. It may serve you better to create your own data handling classes to create a logical separation of the tiers in VFP initially. Once that is accomplished and you can easily switch the backend for your VFP app, then you can look at the options of a rewrite or separation of tiers with dotnet. If as Craig mentioned you separate the tiers you may be able to draw on that knowlege and experience or even use it via COM later. Visual Fox Express has a tutorial book available and a wonderful forum for its users at www.f1tech.com
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>>Keep in mind how you may want to access and manipulate the data in the future. Perhaps a thick client and a separate thin client. If the data handling is robust and flexible, then it will lesson the work later when you add or switch to dotnet.
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>>>We have a major application written in VFP with VFP as the database on the backend. We are transitioning to multiple back-ends (eg. VFP, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, etc.) In addition, we want to consider converting to .NET. Our plan is to create an n-tier application with a thin UI, business tier and multiple back-ends, but leaving the front end and middle tier written in VFP for now. We think that this will give us the ability to gradually transition to .NET if and when we so choose.
>>>Has anyone on this thread used one of the commercial frameworks with n-tier modeling? Is anyone able to provide pros and cons from their survey of available frameworks that could help us in our choice of framework for this project? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>>>Thank you,
>>>Yelena