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>We use mm.net here at work and I have been looking at strataframe as a vehicle for my personal stuff. I would be interested in hearing about its capabilities and how it is coded. I got a reply from Strataframe saying that I could look at the demo, but not the code unless I buy it and then there is no return guarantee like there was with Codemine... So its 500 down the drain if it is not what you expected.


Hi John.

I am a StrataFrame user and I've been really pleased from the very beginning.
To begin with, I find SF a much professional framework, it ties well and properly into Visual Studio using typed editors in the design-time environment. From my experience, I try to stay out of the source code and only need to in the case that you need to debug something to determine how an issue may be happening within my application. One thing that is very important about StrataFrame is the responsiveness of the core developers. Their forum gives you direct access to the actual StrataFrame developers and they never leave a question unanswered. Let me give you an example…when they released the 1.5 version of their product I ran into a small issue with security. I told them about this issue and in less than 30 minutes they had fixed the issue and posted an update on the website. It's just amazing.

But if you want to just get into the code…I find it extremely clean and it uses properly structured design-patterns. But the one thing that I personally like about the framework is that the StrataFrame developers don’t get stuck on forcing a design-pattern if there is another way that is more efficient and produces much faster results. There has not been a single time that I have wanted to extend them framework and that I have had an issue. Since the framework is extensible, this means I can add my changes without being forced to change to core source code….which makes it easy to stay up to date.

I think that you could try throwing a personal question at their forum, it could be worth.

Hope it helps you.

Cheers.