>Hi Charles,
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>I saw you mentioning Strataframe in another thread. If you don't mind, I would like your impressions on the product. I am making my change to dotnet and am looking for a framework. I have been working with Maxframe for VFP since it was first out and can't imagine taking on a new environment without a good framework. I have been looking at Strataframe, CSLA and the DevExpress eXpressApp frameworks.
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>Since I am fairly new at Dotnet, I plan to start with WPF and Entity Framework for my forms and data so I don't have to learn multiple ways of doing the same thing. The DevExpress product uses both in their product as well as supporting web development. The last I looked, Strataframe didn't have any plans for WPF or Silverlight support, at least not in the near future.
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>I would appreciate any thoughts that you or anyone might have.

Hi,
About a year ago I Iooked at various frameworks for possible use with WPF but at that time, AFAIR, there was nothing with any specific support for WPF.

I haven't looked since - mainly because my gut feeling is that unless something is being written from the ground up to be completely WPF orientated it won't be a good fit in most areas. Even so:

If you are planning on using EF then that will be handling pretty much all of the backend / ORM side.
If you use a MVVM pattern (which is the obvious route with WPF) then nearly all UI would be pure XAML.
If you add Prism to the mix then there's not a whole lot of areas left for a framework to fill.

Just my .02c