Hi Garrett,

>I have been considering Visual ProMatrix because it has alot of builders
>which will help me get up and running quickly yet will this eventually limit
>my efforts when I become more proficient with working with classes.

I can't recommend Visual ProMatrix enough. You can easily bypass the builders when you want, but usually you won't need to.

>2.  How important is it to know the Visual FoxPro Codebook 3.0 framework?
>I've seen alot about products being "codebook compliant/compatible" and
>there are many employers looking for codebook proficient programmers.
>Whould a commercial framework like Visual FoxExpress be a good medium
>between having RAD builders and being codebook compatible?

You don't need Codebook with VPM.

>3.  Can Commercial Frameworks be mixed?  ie. Could I use one framework that
>has a lot of builders and then later integrate other features from other
>frameworks (hopefully without too much hairpulling)?

I doubt it.

Whatever you do, buy a framework. I can't understand why anyone would want to try to build their own (unless they have nothing but time).

Dave