>Ed,
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>I am useing the Stonefield Data Tools for Visual Fox 3.0. My personal opinion is GREAT! Check out their web site at www.stonefield.com.
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>Oh, by the way they had the only data dictionary for fox 2.x that I knew of, wish I had bought it!
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>HTH
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>Wes ;-)
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>>>You had posted a message asking for comparative evaluation of these in Universal Thread some time back. I would appreciate it if you could share with me whatever info you were able to collect on this topic.
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>>>TIA
>>>Prakash Bhat
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>>Neon Software and ProMatrix Corporation have both published comparisons with one another on their respective web sites. I read the comparisons and spoke with developers at both companies. I finally chose Visual FoxExpress from Neon Software because I was impressed with the company as a whole, and their people in particular.
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>>I was also impressed with the fact that their environment works well with XCase, a data modeling tool that has gotten some decent reviews of late. I picked up XCase late last week, and am looking forward to getting my data model up fast after the object design is finished. :-)
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>>Unfortunately, I haven't moved beyond the analysis stage on my project yet to know how well their application works. I played around with the development environment and read through the tutorial, but that is as far as I have been thus far.
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>>I'll let you know in the next week or so, as I'm due to produce something this week. :-)
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>>Wardo

This is more for Prakash than for Wes, but I've had a bit of a challenge getting my project up and running. I'm finding now that it might be due to my expecting the framework to do more for me than it does. I like Visual FoxExpress for the flexibility it seems to provide, and the fact that just about everything is object-oriented (even the menus). The class structure is a little large, but inheriting from CodeBook was no easy challenge, to be sure. They do a fairly good job at shielding the developer from some of the annoying foibles of VFP 3.0 and VFP 5.0 (usually, they suffer the pain before you do).

I haven't really done anything on comparisions since this message was originally posted. I've been more in the development phase and less in analysis of the different tools. I would like to hear more from others how their favorite framework compares.

Ed