Randy,

This topic was discussed here several times. There is also a discussion in WiKi:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~EvaluatingFrameworks~softwareEng
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>If I may offer a suggestion - I wish we could sit down together for a few minutes and discuss this in greater detail. When VFP Beta was out in January 1995, I began writing my own foundation class library. It took three attempts and I was somewhat pleased at the result. The amount of time I took to create my library was not billable as I had no VFP clients until December 0f 1995 (VFP was not released until July 1995). Along came CodeBook, so I went to the Flash Road Show for a week, followed by a one week course from MEI, and a Visual MaxFrame Professional.
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>I have used a number of foundations VFE, MEI, Codebook, and VMF. I suggest you look into each product along with user support, documentation, etc. Check the details carefully. In my opinion trying to create your own foundation is not worth the time or effort. You will see two terms used with foundations – form centric and object centric. Form centric is easier for most people to use and learn. Visual MaxFrame Professional is in this class. Codebook (the grandfather of VFP foundations) is object centric and such an approach lends itself to easier creation of web and n tier applications.
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>Do you belong to a user group? If not try to look into one near you.
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>Which foundations do I use? I like Visual MaxFrame and Visual FoxExpress, for very different reasons. Others will tell you they like others that I have not mentioned.
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>Hope I have been of some assistance. Good luck.
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>Tom