>> >>HOWEVER, it was better organized (my opinion) than the VFP documentation. >> >>I felt somewhat misled by the title, expecting to read a lot more about >"framework", the benefits thereof, and recommendations for making one's >own. There was extremely LITTLE in this regard. >>It comes with a diskette, but there was so little in the book that I never >even bothered with the diskette. Maybe everything that I feel was missing >is in there, but if it is there ought to be some clear mention of its >content in the book. There was almost nil on that! >> >>All in all, I think it would be helpful for a genuine novice, but I think >I am a tiny bit beyond that and I found it not enlightening at all. >> > > >Thanks...that's exactly what I thought someone would say....sounds like it >is typical of his past writings. > We've got to be careful here not to just toss it out. We need a book like this to point novices to, whether they be brand new to VFP or legacy gurus just coming off spaghetti code into VFP. THey won't need a more advanced book and they sure need to know all of the background that you must work around to get into a really usable framework. I'm not saying this book is great. I haven't read it. I'm sure not going to say it's advanced. But, where are all of the other books on frameworks. You have to start somewhere. When you get right down to it, I haven't liked all of any FoxPro book I've ever purchased, and I've purchased a lot of them. I'm always looking for at least one or two more major topics that weren't addressed that I thought should have been addressed. Or, if there's a chapter in any book on using the Windows API with FoxPro, I would think that most people would say they weren't satisfied with what they saw because they just didn't go far enough. Bottom line, at least we have another VFP5 book that someone can use. ==Carl