>>>>>>http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Application-Frameworks-NET-Chen/dp/1590592883/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260829282&sr=8-23
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>>>>>>>Good comments. I guess I'm thinking that in the time it takes to learn what someone else has done, I could write my own - and add or leave out portions to fit my own needs. And the price is right.
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>>>>>Excellent Craig. Thanks!
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>>>>Be sure to check out the copies available from Amazon resellers. I have had excellent luck with those.
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>>>>FWIW I think your statement that it's as easy to write a framework as learn one may be a little optimistic. JOMO.....
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>>>I never said it was easy.
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>>No, not exactly. Here is what I was responding to:
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>>"I guess I'm thinking that in the time it takes to learn what someone else has done, I could write my own - and add or leave out portions to fit my own needs. And the price is right."
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>>I don't care what value you place on your time, there is no way you are going to build your own framework for $700 worth of labor. So I don't think price is a factor.
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>>Good luck with whatever you decide!
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>One thing I enjoy doing in SF ( and which really helped me to learn VFP ) is to step through framework source as I run my app. It is a very cool way to see what is really going on and it can get one running pretty quickly on the framework.

Yes. I have been doing some of that lately in my new job (contract). They have a fairly large and sophisticated home grown framework. Lots of instantiated objects and inherited classes.