>Dear All,
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>We developed a very nice and extensive framework with VFP that works as a Client Server application with a back end that can be anything but we prefer MySQL. We made several very successful apps with this framework but we hear often the usual critics about VFP that it is discontinued or outdated or will not be supported anymore soon. Although we are very happy with the framework we are now considering to rebuilt our framework in .NET.
>Does anybody have experience with building a .NET framework, and how well can that work?
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>Regards,
>
>Koos Veel.

Koos,
We are going down the same path right now. We decided to migrate to MySQL from VFP a while back for the back end database. Since only the front end will be VFP we are going to stay with it for a few more years. In the mean time we are looking for front end software to replace VFP that will run over the Web. .NET will be dead in another five to ten years as more and more apps migrate to the web.

We build very large management systems and five years is not a long time in our life cycle. We always try to look at where things will be in five years and it is obvious that everything will be web based by that time. Look at all the Netbook computers being sold today with Linux and the numbers that Apple computer is doing today.