Must be for very simple requirements. I remember this shop did layouts in PowerPoint, regardless of business rules and optimization, and then fit processes and structures to the screen layout, kind of a function follows form method, rather than the optimal form follows function. Of course this was an in house project, not a commercial venture by any stretch. 1 or 2 good VFP people, without a frame work, could have delivered a faster, more robust totally optimized solution in less time than the 20 bench programmers took using the framework.

But MIS managers need someone and something to manage and the HELP desk needs someone to help.

>>>You don't have to create a number of classes from scratch. It saves you time.
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>>So, you're saying that the 20 seconds it takes to drop a command button on a form, change its caption to "Save", and then point to a method specific to the file structures my app is using could be reduced to 10 seconds?
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>Very weak example but yes that's the point. A framework is an entire shell for an application where everything is ready-made, standardized, and at your finger tips. RAD on setroids.
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>Need a data entry form? Grab this, click click click, bam there it is. done including cosmetics and a hook or tie in to all the possible functionality you could every want. Plus you have several choices of flavors for data entry forms.... need an applicstion object? grab it, bam there it is done. need a business object? grab it, bam there it done. Roll out an app to a client in significantly less OVERALL time and they come back with 25 extra things they now want they you never planned for... no big deal, the experience level that built the framework is way ahead of you and wide implementation experience means almost anything you can ever get hit with has already been done before and incorporated into the product to make your life easier.
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>See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CategoryFrameworks for a ton more info on the value of frameworks and all the ones we ave to choose from in VFP.