>>>>Hello to everybody,
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>>>>I want an ultimate comment to buy a Framework, based on your experiece working with frameworks. I never had worked with a framework, but due to not enought time to develope and reprogram a complete application I am thinking about buy a good framework, in my case I have to migrate and reprogram an accounting system and inventory system, but using SQL for the backend, then I have to complete that project in a very little time.
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>>>>I will apreciate very much your valuable comment about that. I was viewing Mere Mortals and Visual Promatrix Frameworks, superficially are very good but i wish a little suggestion about it.
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>>>>Thanks very much
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>>>>Amilcar Pino
>>>>Cybernet Systems
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>>>Amilcar, do a search for "framework" at http://fox.wikis.com
>>>you will find a lot of info there.
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>>This site some blatent inaccuracies and does not represent any framework fairly. I don't recommend anyoneuse this as a guide. A better way to evaluate a framework is to get the documentation and read it. If the the docs are good and the development philosophy fits your style and needs, there you go.
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>You probably cannot get the objective report on frameworks anywhere. Nobody knows thoroughly all of them at once, people have different requirements and preferences, the framework which suits one type of project may be not that great for another type, etc. You can just see different opinions (and docs of course) and compare.
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>My personal preference would be the framework which is closer to VFP itself. From what I heard, CodeMine is of that type.
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>You know, I am really the person without a framework now. :) I practically don't do applications on my own now, and if I do some, it is usually on a given framework.
>I made several applications with Visual Extend and was quite happy with that framework. It might have too much code in the base classes, but most of frameworks do.
>But then again, (as Ken Levy says) I don't make applications - I make tools :) And when you make tools, you usually work in VFP 5 to provide the backward compatibility. :)

I've heard other people say that they don't use frameworks. If you truly don't build applications, that is an exceptable way to go. But if you are building applications, you'd be crazy not to use one. The question is which one? Like I said before, the best way to evaluate a framework is to get the documentation and read it. Everyone, especially msyself, has an opinion on which is the best. But it boils down to personal preference and development style.