>I think you're right, but a word of warning, if I am allowed to be idealistic for a moment. If you're waiting for a .NET framework to come out and you're looking for somethign that looks like a typical VFP framework, you will see a them, but you'll be missing the action.
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>Given the openness of VS.NET, I think we'll see more frameworks taking the shape of an application generator with a non programmer interface in the VS.NET tool. Evolving development tools come with evolving third party development tools, and I am envisioning higherarchies and diagrams that resemble (but is far simpler than) UML and other documenting syntaxes that can power applications.
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What rationale are you using to base this conclusion - that frameworks will necessarily take the form of application generators?


>Code and Coders will still be required, but at a much more as needed basis.

I agree that code and coders will still be required. As far as being on a "much more as needed basis" - again I ask, what rationale are you using to support this premise. Before you can answer that, you will need to define the current state of affairs.


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Of course everyone has always thought this would be the case sometime in the far future, but I think that VS.NET has the potential to do that successfully in the next two years.
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How do you define "everyone"? And, where as "everyone" said this? FWIW, 2 years *is* the far future as far as the technical world is concerned..