>It appears to me that one of the biggest advantages to frameworks is that they help with the early stages of creating a new application for developers who develop many applications. I on the other hand am just working on a very few applications which will take years to finish. Am I wrong about fraweworks or do they offer me less advantages than others receive?

In addition to what others have said, you get ready-made pieces. Need security? Done. Need toolbars? Done...you don't have to write all this stuff yourself.

Now, I think there is one con to frameworks...it hides how things really work in VFP. You tend to learn how the framework works and not how VFP works.