>Hi guys:
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>I'm interested in your opinion. I was reading your comments from September about Visual Extend. I recently started using VE and wish I had known about Universal Thread while I was evaluating Frameworks. It's been a couple of months since your messages were first posted ... and I have a question.
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>If you had to do it over again, would you still choose Visual Extend? I myself have had mixed reaction to VE but since I was still learning VFP, I figured their class library was better than trying to start my own. A developer colleague recommended it in the first place and he's been able to make it fly for his clients so I know it will do the job. (Like the difference between MS Word and WordPerfect ... both do the job.)
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>I too wish their was better support and documentation.
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>FYI, the last build I downloaded was 2016, Dated December 9 (or something).

Hello:

FWIW, We've been using Visual Extend since version 3.5 (have version 5.0 and build 1207). I'm like you, still learning VFP. My experience has been good with frameworks. We developed several large apps in FPW 2.6 and used FoxExpress v2.6. We really saved a lot of time and delivered a consistant, feature rich product. We joined the "Pioneer" (beta) test program with Visual FoxExpress, but they were a year to late.

We choose VE because it has Codebook support and Stonefield was the original marketing company. Stonefield Database Toolkit support is included in VE.

In the mean time we picked up VE and began building our first client/server program. It has been a huge learning curve. Version 5.0 of VE is good and getting better. Support from Devigus needs improving, but we've always received answers via E-Mail. For someone like me, with little 'OOP' experience, VE has been a big help. Still a lot to learn with VE and VFP.