>I am in the process of spec-ing a payroll product (we sell to the staffing industry). I am going to define it as a n-tier product. I am going to use VFP in the middle and probably in the back too. The UI is unknown, VB, VFP, ASP ????.
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>Frameworks is the question. You mentioned WWWC, xworks. What are these and sould I stay with a VFP framework?
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WWWC and xWorks are aimed direcly at Web development. Most of the tools included are for things like interaction with IIS, HTML generation, and things like that. This stuff would be pretty useless to you if your front end ended up being VB or another tool besides a browser.