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>Almost as easy? What do you mean by almost? FWIW, frameworks like VFE do zero code generation.

That may be, but there are still many more prebuilt controls, etc that already have explicit functionality such as textboxes, grids, etc. These don't exist in the .NET framework. The textboxes, etc there are more like native VFP controls. You still have to do things to get the specific behavior and look that you want.

>What frameworks do you use, and how much code does it take to create a complex application?

I use my own for consulting projects and heavily modified Codebook at 3M.