Hi Greg.

>First off thanks for all the great information.

My pleasure.


>I'm curious about one thing. If I were to start building middle-tier business objects in Strataframe, could these buisiness objects be consumed by a Visual Foxpro front end and if so how difficult would that be? I'm going to be moving over a huge system and plan to concentrate on business objects first. Then, if I could wire in these buisness objects to existing VFP apps I could likely save a lot of time as my VFP skills are considerably better from a presentation layer standpoint than my ASP.NET skills.

Well, the only way I think this is possible would be through COM and this really isn’t a good direction to go. One thing you may consider is talking with the developers of StrataFrame because they do more than just write frameworks. StrataFrame evolved from their need to create a true n-tiered framework to support their medical application. I know that they have been migrating their VFP app over a piece at a time and came up with a way to launch the VFP programs within a .NET MDI environment. You would have to talk with then to get more details, but I know that they have already faced this and found a good solution, which I will probably follow in the near future.

Hope it helps you.

Cheers.