Hi Paul,
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>This lets you make changes in one place for things that need to be in all versions of the application, but lets you customize them on a per-application basis.
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Okay! I think I can put this to use sometimes. In addition, some of the base forms and reports will not be used for all three client types (i.e., the fishing lodge customers could care less about things relating to tracking costs of gamebirds and hunting reports). So, there will be totally different classes and reports in each version. I don't think the Abstarct Factory would work for these things.

I suppose I could just ship one big application which includes everything and just remove access from the menu and forms (which would have to have buttons removed or disabled that access these things).

But here is what my brain can't get past right now with the framework: I use Quick Start to create a new application, develop it, modify it, Abstract Factory it, .... all directly in that project created by QS. I now have my base application. I get a new client and he needs some customization. Now what? Do I just copy the base directories into another folder and customize it (since I can't use QS any longer to do this)? I certainly do not want to mess up my base application.

Right now (w/ Access) we have a folder for the base version, and individual folders for each client (we just copy the base and modify it as we need to). Will this work with the framework?

Thanks again,

-paul w.