Jess,

Interesting viewpoint.

When I made the switch from FPD26 & FPW26 to VFP 5 I was faced with two choices. The first was to spend a lot of time learning VFP from the basics but at the same time be unable to develop applications since I would still be learning & the other was to buy a commercial framework which I could use to produce the applications my clients were asking for with the minimum of fuss and learn VFP on the way.

I chose the second of the two options as being the most practical & I have to say that I had no trouble in adopting the way of thinking that was used. That was due in part to choosing a codebook compliant framework when I had been using codebook standards for 2.6 development.

I was also fortunate in that I'd been a C++ programmer & therefore objects and OOP weren't strange to me.

As a result, my viewpoint on frameworks is completely the opposite to yours in that I would recommend that developers new to VFP should use a framework and at the same time as producing simple applications using it they should learn about programming in VFP.


Regards,

Mark Austen
[Schooner Software Limited]