>Thanks for the ideas Gary

No problem.

>Tell me, how much have you worked with Strataframe vs. MM .Net?

Yes and no. I evaluated MM.Net and then I evaluated StrataFrame. MM.Net was a painfull process with almost no advantages that I could see. My idea of a framework was something that helped me and made my life easier. Mere Mortals.NET just seemed to add to the confusion.

My StrataFrame experience was totally different. I had all of the "ooohs and aahhhs" moment(s). It felt good, it took the drudgery out of the development, it let me concentrate on the business logic. It was RAD in an environment that I was lead to believe didn't do RAD <s>.

>I did look at Strataframe, but once I figured out that it was VB, I lost interest. What are your thoughts here?

I started using C#/.NET before I ever looked at StrataFrame. I went to the Frankfurt VFP Devcon in 2002 and Kevin McNeish, in a MM.Net vendor session said that he wrote MM.Net in C# because VB'ers would use a framework written in C#, but C#'ers would use a framework written in VB.Net.

When I found out that StrataFrame was developed in VB.Net, my heart sank a little and I wondered "Why?, Why did they do that?". However, I have found the StrataFrame team to be a very smart bunch of guys. When we discuss issues, they turn out excellent code for me in C#, all the time. So, it is quite clear to me that they could have written the framework in C# had they wanted to. They are ex-VFP and they initially felt more comfortable with VB.Net. So, they wrote SF in VB.Net. VB is slated to be the more RAD language than is C#. It is also going to be more data-friendly than C#, if you listen to the members of the VFP team who are working with the VB.Net team. I don't think it is going anywhere, any time soon. Nowadays, when I step through the framework code, I start reading in VB.Net, when I get back into my own code, I start reading in C#. It’s like a child listening to his Spanish mother in Spanish and his German father in German <s> - it is very natural and something I don't even think about anymore. As I may have mentioned in an earlier post, the side effect is that I could become very fluent in VB.Net quite quickly. I see work all the time in VB.Net so, this can't be a bad thing at all.

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