>I'm interested in acquiring Visual Extend for Visual Foxpro 5.0 (www.devigus.com), and I need an opinion about this product if somebody evaluates it.
>Thanks...
>Marcelo

Adding my humble opinion. From what I can tell, Visual Extend IS quite comprehensive in its structure. Where I feel the product falls seriously short is in documentation and support. While there is a Help file that goes with the product, differences in language is a problem. There's a local help person available via e-mail here in America -- I don't know if there's one where you are. Response time is okay, but it hasn't been much help.

When I first started working with Visual Extend, I hated it. The Help file was only nominally helpful. It would have benefited from examples. But over time, I came to appreciate what it was doing. And it does ALOT! The investment you'll make however, is in tracing all of the code that's behind it's custom classes and methods and making sure when you do something, you're not stepping on what it does inherently or that's contrary to their architecture and structure. And tracing through their code was, is and continues to be very time consuming.

Cost? In December 97, I paid $495, plus $68 shipping from Switzerland, plus $250+ for an extra dongle. When you consider VFP costs as much, I think it's priced high.

Fred Kusin of Netbase Group initially turned me on to Visual Extend and he's done a lot with it. But like anything else, it's what you get used to. Finally, Visual Extend seems to have a very low profile and small user base. At least that's what it seems like.

Hope you join the club ... it would be nice to network with other VE users.

Ernie