The ATS is part of Dev Studio.

There are a lot of little gotcha's in any programming language, and a good framework takes care of all of them.

VPM, or any good framework, also makes a lot of little tasks semi-automated: e.g., VPM has "set" integrity, which I have modifed to used dropdown combolists.

Hank

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>Never Heard of it?
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>On the contrary, I have. One thing I failed to mention previously is that we do not design full stand-alone applications. We generally make modifications to existing SBT Accounting Systems Code or we create simple front-ends to SBT.
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>With that said, why should I take another look at VPM? What can it do that cannot be done with Visual FoxPro? The one thing I see that is built in that could be useful, is the security/audit tracking. However this is generally not required in our projects. What else am I missing? I must be missing something because everyone has good things to say about it.
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>Thanks for your input,
>Don Knoup
>dknoup@landal.com