>>>>>>>Who is behind StrataFrame? From their web site it seems like they have some sort of VFP connection. I also noticed the testimonial on the home page from Gary Wynne, whose name we remember here, saying what an aid StrataFrame was when they rewrote their mission critical app ;-(
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>>>>>>( why the sad face on the last sentence? Isn't that Bonnie's husband? )
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>>>>>No, that's Gary DeWitt. Gary Wynne is in England.
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>>>>>>the company is MicroFour. They've been around about 20 years - mostly doing medical record and practice management software in foxpro. They seem to have done very well at that. A much bigger operation that i would have guessed from the website.
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>>>>>>When they decided to move to .NET they found the available frameworks wouldn't do what they wanted with the size of the record sets they were dealing with so they wrote their own framework, which is now used for their commercial app and which has obviously benefited from being both developed and stress tested against real business needs. (the enterprise server is *very* cool) And they speak very fluent Fox.
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>>>>>>The founding generation (three Taylor brothers and a sister) is close to my age - and yet have degrees in CS (oddly enough the U in Amarillo offering one of the first CS programs west of Rockies). The younger gneration - led by Trent Taylor and Ben Chase (32 and 25 respectively) represent as much mental horsepower as I've ever seen in 2 people. Stuff that's already wired into framework far exceeded what I expected and made me realize just how far I would have been from that kind of productivity without it. And since they are using and expanding it daily I've seen very large extension just in the last year.
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>>>>>>Working with Mike and Toni for the last ten years has given me a pretty good look at a top notch framework development team and I think I know this stuff when i see it.
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>>>>>>The Microfour team also happen to be really nice people and since it's a family business there is a lot of stability. I have enthusiasticly drunk the kool-aid, obviously, but I like to speak kindly of things I really believe in and the more i get involved with Microfour and SF the happier I am about it.
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>>>>>The enthusiasm is appreciated and you have gotten my attention. One more question, if you don't mind. It may be answered on their web site but I haven't found it yet. It says you get the source code. What language is it written in?
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>>>>Vb.Net
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>>>Not what I wanted to hear, but thanks.
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>>Shouldn't really matter much. How much would you expect to be messing with the source code?
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>A LOT. I studied the source code for VFP frameworks. I studied the source code of the dotnet frameworks we evaluated.
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>Ok, I see your point. That's not really 'messing with it,' is it?

No. Reading the code whether it's C# or VB.net isn't so different that you can't make out one if you really only know the other (especially if you know C# and are reading VB.net). But that's definitely not the same as trying to make the code do something different.