>Okay, so I learned VFP5 in October to write an App for a company that had >promised its customers that it would ship on September 8. (I was a Foxplus, >FP2Dos FP2.5/6 Windows guy.) The last 4(!) programmers weren't worth their >weight in charcoal so the whole thing had to be rewritten. Fast. So I >modified this App framework used for teaching VFP and juiced it up a little. >But being in a hurry and all, and learning while coding, I have a somewhat >disorganized framwork. Now, I'm starting a new App that I Maybe there is a >really good 3rd party one, or maybe not. Or if any of you has written a good >one, I might be able to get my boss to pay a few hundred bucks for it. Or if >you've modified an existing one to great benefit, we might be able to pay for >the existing one and pay for your mods, in order to be legally able to use >yours. But I'd need the code of course, and full rights to do anything short >of selling it as a framework/VFP toolset. (I'm just going to write Apps with >it.) Adam, I stopped to read all the other responses before adding my $.02 because I've seen in the past other threads concerning whether to buy a framework or roll your own. The responses you've gotten so far run the usual gammut. My situation is similar to yours. My past includes much development in FPW and have recently moved to VFP 5.0. Historically, I never considered a bought framework because I'd already had the time to build my own. In my current position, the requirement to make a quick shift forced me to consider a bought framework. I've ended up with Visual FoxExpress by F1 Technologies. My thought at this point is that I'm working with a framework that MANY "someone elses" have been working with and debugging so that's going to save me some time. Whenever I devote myself to just using the app framework to get my work done, I consider the results acceptable. The caveat here is that you don't allow yourself to get sucked into the desire to figure out "what makes it tick". Whevever I've done this, the result has been that I took longer to get my head into the same gear as the original developer than it might have taken me to do it myself. My conclusion is that if you have a luxury of a lot of spare time, do it yourself. Otherwise, consider someone else's but hold yourself to not doing to much digging until after the time crunch has passed.