>I have been studying VFP since '95 (VFP 3.0). I have been reading about frameworks for years now. I THINK I'm ready to dive in. However, I'm so overwhelmed with the choices.
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>I'm about to evaluate the Pro Matrix Enterprise 6.0. I'm looking for opinions and past experiences.
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>I feel I am an Intermediate user of VFP. Not a Beginner and not an Advanced user. Do I want to invest the time in the Pro Matrix Framework? Should I look at some of the others?

Worked with 6.0b (not Enterprise), and didn't like it too much. Up to that version, it had a zillion public variables, and the error handler never let you out - it closes the tables and then tries to continue running your code, so it creates another error soon, and after about 60 clicks you call the bouncer (Windows Task Manager) to kick the drunk out of the bar.

Starting with the enterprise edition may be different, since they said they have done away with the public vars, and that they do support c/s stuff. You'd still have to create your views yourself.

VPM is a great tool to do many things fast, in the beginning. About halfway down the road I've found myself coding around it too often, and in the end I ploughed through their classes. There were a few things which were unnecessarily slow. Some of them were done to circumvent a few glitches in VFP3.0 - these were fixed, but the workarounds weren't removed. For one, download the evaluation version, create a ten-page pageframe, and do the coverage log. If you find that each textbox had ten refreshes before the form.show method fired, that's it. If it looks like a normal number of refreshes, they fixed it.

I had to fix these things myself, and didn't want a newer version, because I'd have to go through all these fixes and made sure they were not needed anymore, or to reapply them. Didn't have the time.

Just an opinion.