Re: Mike Feltman at LA Fox April 5 -- Active FoxPro Pages

From: Ook (MSNews_at_UpYoursSpammer.zootal.nomorespam.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:25:59 -0700

Very, very nice, thanks for the link. About 5-6 years ago I toyed with the
idea of making my own framework. Instead I choose to use a commercial
framework. Unfortunately, the one I choose was a very high level framework
that was not very forgiving of efforts to do things that are not the
"framework's way". My clients wanted highly customized applications with
off-the-beaten-path bells and whistles.Getting off of the beaten path turned
out to be extremely time consuming. Something as simple of using, for
example, an ActiveX charting control on a form turned out to be difficult
and very time consuming because the framework didn't get along with the
control. I eventually stopped using the framework because I got sick and
tired of all of the time I was spending debugging the framework's code to
see why this or that feature was not working as advertised. Some of the time
it was my fault in that I didn't set up something right, either due to poor
documentation or my making mistakes. Other times it was because of bugs in
the framework. And when something did not work, there would be no clue given
as to why - it just would not work. I have spent hours and hours tracing
through framework code to find that one missing setting.

So I'm looking for a framework that will let me do what I want without
getting in my way. I need a framework that makes it easy to make
jump-through-flaming-hoop forms, but one that doesn't take total control of
the application and force you to do things the framework's way. Honestly, I
regret my decision to not make my own framework. If I planned on spending
much more time with VFP I would still make my own, but I'm slowly but surely
working my way out of VFP into other technologies. My current project is a
VFP to dot net conversion, and I hope to use that experience to work on more
dot net projects. Using my VFP expertise to survive is my Plan B, and I'm
doing some of the groundwork now in case I end up going that way. <gasps for
breath>....

"Cindy Winegarden" <cindy_winegarden@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%230PiNHkMFHA.688@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi Ook,
>
> Read the pages in the links in the green area of this page:
>
> http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FrameworkFeatureChart
>
> --
> Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual Foxpro MVP
> cindy_winegarden@msn.com www.cindywinegarden.com
> Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/cindywinegarden
>
>
> "Ook" <MSNews@UpYoursSpammer.zootal.nomorespam.com> wrote in message
> news:O86%23jrVMFHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> .....What I'd like to see is a side by
>> side comparison.
>
>

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