Thomas, thanks for your reply.

I have been using VFP for about 2 years and written my own inhouse 'framework' which works fine so I have some idea of what I'm letting myself in for .

We have a particular APP which I still want to consider upgrading, taking into account all the advice given here .

What is MEI and how can I cantact them ?

Regards

Gerard





>>I am about to upgrade a FPW project to VFP.
>>Does anybody know of any utilities,articles or downloads that would assist.
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>>Regards,
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>>Gerard
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>Gerard;
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>There are ways to convert an existing FPW application to VP. MEI has one technique. However, I have seen it in action and I think there are problems. Trying to get everything to work will take many hours. Any changes to be made will take even more time thus eliminating one great promise of OOP - ease of maintenance and additions!
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>Conversions will work but they are a bit like the promise a developers makes to himself about documentation. "When I get a moment I will go back and document all my work"! If you do not start out on a clean and clear path at the beginning you will not have time to "go back"!
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>Use any of the great commercial frameworks to give your application a professional jump-start and help assure a successful project.
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>Tom