>John,
>Have you read about M$ 3-2-1 project methodology? In a nutshell, it's a recommended approach for getting up to N-tier speed. 3 Tier, 2 Developers, 1 month. You take a small business process that both developers understand, use tools your familiar with. Then take 1 week to study the N-tier approach, 1 week for analysis/design/planning, 2 weeks for coding & testing. If I had the available resources, I would love to try this approach myself.
This sounds fun. Where can I get more info about this?

>IMHO, n-tier design is one area where VBers are well-ahead of the race than we (VFPers) are as an enterprise-level developers.
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>I don't completely buy that. VBers are accustomed to not having local database engine, so yeah maybe they can think in terms of separation of tiers a little easier at first. But I think VFPers are a few steps ahead because we have practical experience we can apply to analysis & design of all 3 tiers - it's just that we need to learn to adjust the methodology we use in our development practices.
I wasn't trying to say VBers are ahead in "all" phases of development (even in n-tier design) cycle. What I was really trying to get at is that there are much more material/resources available for VB programmers (e.g books, tutorials, sample code, etc.) to use to get started with n-tier design than we have. In fact, even I successfully built a small experimental n-tier app in VB rather easily. However, trying to duplicate it in VFP is getting little frustrating. Where are the resources???