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Visual FoxPro
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Third party products
Miscellaneous
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01544885
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>>All that said, I don't think a framework - at least VFE - is going to mean just "sprucing up" a existing 2.6 fpw app and make it look "modern"
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>>Usually a good framework is more interested in the plumbing - data access and business layer - that the UI and IMO VFP UI is never going to look "modern" because it isn't. The UI looks 1990's and just the pain of integrating Activex controls that didn't come from one fox friendly vendor - DBITech - was a lesson that the options were very limited without a *lot* of time invested.
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>I just want to address the UI issue. VFPX includes a bunch of things that can be used to make a VFP app look modern, if that's a concern.
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>Tamar

Forgot about VFPX. Good point and I think if UI is what is needed that is definitely the way to go. if one is going to bring a FPW 2.6 app into VFP just for UI VPFX will offer a lot more than frameworks that were pretty much designed and written 10-15 years ago to address n-tier , business object and data access issues.


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