Special Handling for Special Needs

Designing a custom application framework for your Visual FoxPro application isn't for the faint of heart. It takes thousands of hours to write the most robust commercial frameworks. You don't want to re-create that effort for your own custom software project without a very good reason. Sometimes, though, nothing but a custom framework will do. If your project needs a completely custom touch, we'll design your framework with only those features you really need.

I've had the privilege to either create or work with several custom designed Visual FoxPro frameworks. These include:

• Visual Codebook
• Visual MaxFrame
• Visual FoxExpress
• Mere Mortals

I haven't just used these frameworks, but have spent a lot of time pouring over the source code behind them. Because I've dissected these leading frameworks as well as other lesser-known frameworks, I've also seen a number of different ways to address the same problems.

This gives me an insight into the structure of software that is rare among developers.

This page was last modified on Tuesday, 19 December 2006