>Being old-school FP2.x and very new to VFP, I am considering Visual Foxpress as a RAD tool. I did use their FP 2.x version and was happy with that. Any opinions on the VFE tool?

I've used it on a project in 2002, and it actually does have a lot of stuff you'd develop for yourself sooner or later. Beware - there's a lot to learn, but then there are tools included, and a good tutorial, that may make it a lot easier to get you started. As with the rest of OOP, the main question is "where does the code go", and even more so than in raw VFP. You need to understand the object model first - what goes into bizobjects, what into data controllers (or whatever they are called) etc. Once you got that, building n-tier apps in it will be a sort of second nature to you.

Since it's a CodeBook type of framework, there's a somewhat too rich set of classes, sometimes a couple of levels deeper than one would expect, and there may be a few surprises here and there. Generally, it does cover a lot of bases for you, and if you don't push it to do much more than it was made for, you'll be fine.