>>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?
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>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.
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>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.

I've been using a framework for the last 18 months, and I haven't found this to be the case at all. I suppose that if all you did was work within the limits of the built in features of the framework, this would be so. But this would give you a very limited application with little custom features. As soon as you need to do something that isn't built into the framework, you are working with VFP and need to know how it works. My knowledge of VFP continues to grow, and I'm constantly pushing the envelope. My framework provides the basics, but I still need to know VFP to do most of the work I do<s>