>>>Hi Nick,
>>>
>>>May I ask you a question?
>>>What do you use as an application framework for clients projects? Your own or a third party product?
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Hi Igor,
>>
>>I use 3-rd party product - Visual Extend 5.0
>
>Why do you use it? There are a lot of others on the market?

Once I created my own which was mostly based on Tasmanian Traders, was not completely satisfied with it and started looking for the commercial framework, but then so happened that I started work on the big Client-Server VFP project for one firm which was using Visual Extend, and then a couple more projects for another firm which also was using VFX - so for now I just know this one very well. :)
I also worked with original Codebook 3 and found it too heavy (that's probably the reason why it's new version called "for Mere Mortals" :)
It is difficult to make a decision about the particular framework until you do a couple (or more) of different projects in it. Any well-developed framework makes some assumptionsabout how it supposed to work with data, and then if you try to do something more sophisticated - the framework puts the limits on you. And the more things the framework does for you - the more limits it is.

>Actually you distrubute executables and type of the framework: your own or 3rd party may not make big difference. Am I wrong ?

Right, for the user it does not make any difference if the app meets all the user requirements. It makes the difference for the developer.

Nick