<< Despite your words, you probably are taken my reply too strong. Actually, my initial reply was for the person who said that every developer should buy a framework and it seems to me as too rigid statement. Take it easy, please!
P.S. I'm not going to drop VFP (hopefully:), and I guess that we all VFP developers are in the same boat and should be friendly to each other. >>

Actually, I really do believe that every developer should start with one of the frameworks out there. If money or cost are an issue there's always Codebook, the PD version of MaxFrame and Maurice DeBiers public domain framework. If you're doing web applications, there's West-Wind and a few others. Even if someone decides to roll their own, the amount that can be learned from the frameworks is incredible. For example, Steve Sawyer uses his own framework that has parts from Codebook, parts from VFE and parts from MaxFrame. If I didn't happen to be a framework vendor we'd probably have all of them here and use all of them or at least have evaluated all of them.