>>>>Hi Everyone:
>>>>We need to adopt a good Object Oriented Design Methodology. Does anyone have any methods that they have found particularly useful. If so, what are some books that would be good to learn these methods.
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>>>>Ed
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>>>There have been a number of threads recently discussing frameworks. IMHO, if you don't have any real standards now, having the office adopt and learn a framework may be the best way to implement some solid standards. MaxFrame has a very good introduction discussing the pro's and con's of frameworks and also some great notes warning of some problems that can arise from OOP that are not necessarily intuitive.
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>>>HTH
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>>In addition, Codebook is a good framework and methodology. Even if you want to use a different framework, the book The Visual Foxpro 3 Codebook (ISBN: 0-7821-1648-5) is a great read for just this sort of thing.
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>Just to throw out another reference, I'm using and framework but I also have a great book that lays out nice flexible OOP Designs in great detail:
>ISBN 0-201-63361-2 Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides

that's the one w/ C++ and smalltalk code examples, isn't it? good book -- available at amazon.com (30 or 40% off list)