Hi Viv,

I am going to be starting working with the trial package shortly but I have spent some time there today. They have their own data access methods but you interact with the data through the business objects that you create as part of the framework. I am happy with that since I have been working with business objects using Maxframe while working with VFP. There are no current WPF classes but they are slated for the next major release about mid year.

I am aware of the 3 separate products. There are actually 4 if you include the enterprise server (which is very cool if you have distributed needs!) but the pricing isn't prohibitive anyway when you think about the work that you will be doing with it. Hopefully I will have some more thoughts on this during the coming week.

Bill

>Hi,
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>I saw the DB toolkit but notice that it (and the role based security stuff) is not part of the core framework. I also don't know if those only operate as add-ons to the framework or as seperate items (I'd guess the security stuff wouldn't be a standalone option)
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>I still don't see how the framework could be compatible either with EF or with WPF data-binding concepts such as data templates but I'll be interested to hear how you get on.....
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>Best,
>Viv