Hi all,

Say, I'm looking for some "hands on" type advise.

We have several 3rd party products we're planning on using in a re-write of an existing application. Products that we consider "best of breed", such as Web Connection, Stonefield Database Toolkit, Visual MaxFrame for starters. Add to that some ten years worth of procedural code that's going to be brought into the world of objects <g> and you can see we have our hands full.. <g>

We are thinking that we could end up with something like 15-25 projects to begin with and with a large upside potential. The reason for this is that our product is tailored to a unique combination of State + County + Business Type + Specific Company + Specific User. That is, we could conceivably need to manage the "entity-specific" include files for a LOT of installations. Then there's the automatic data management system we need to build plus a whole host of support projects to help us manage all of this.. IOW, lots 'O projects. <g>

As we would plan to subclass all the 3rd party stuff, VFP and so forth (to manage upgrades, etc) and we would also want to share as much common code between our various projects AND because VSS is a pain in the rear to manage multiple Shared directories (many of you do this out there and like it? <g>) we want to kee all common code in physical sub-directories of the various projects.

There are some 3600 counties nation-wide. That's a lot of information to manage and that's why we want to plan this carefully.

As you can no doubt imagine, this could get messy (but it's the best I've come up with) and I'm looking for ideas, particularly from any of you who have had to go down this path before and have "real life" type experiences.

Got any? <s>

Thanks a ton in advance!!!