Gary,

>Is there any advantage to a VFP developer with the C#.Net Mere Mortals framework or is any advantage (from a VFP perspective) only appropriate for existing Mere Mortals users?

It would probably only give someone familiar with VFP Mere Mortals an advantage.

>I am reading up C# at the moment. However VFP frameworks have always helped to focus the VFP developer on what is/isn't important in the VFP feature set and also provide a development methodology for the random ("stray cannon") VFP developer <s>. Offering this "assistance" to a VFP developer into his/her first foray into .NET would be very comforting indeed.

You're on the money...VFP has 35 base classes. In contrast, .NET has *over 2000!*. It's like going to a building site where there are huge piles of construction materials...everything you need, but where do you start?

Our .NET Framework will definitely help focus developers on what's important, and help them start creating both Windows and Web applications quickly. As with our VFP version of Mere Mortals, we will be using business objects to help build scalable applications and abstract some of the complexities of data access in .NET.

Honestly, most of the hard work has been done already...our Framework architecture has been out there for several years and has been put to the test...the easy part is porting it to .NET!

Regards,