How to create my Base SF classes....


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Hi All,

Is there any document, article, draft sample, etc. on how to create my Base SF classes with my custom changes that can be use in all my SF applications?

I am feeling pretty confident with my SF learning and I am ready to start working on a 2nd SF project, but now I figured out that all the code I am using in my first project can not simply be copied over to the new project and I hate to keep repeating code and process when there should be a much better an efficient way to do this.

I would really appreciate if anybody can take some time to describe this subclass process in order to crate a Base set of SF classes.

hmmm, may be that could be an Enhancement Request Tongue  Sorry Trent w00t

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I know this will be part of the upcoming SF trainning class, but I can really wait, I need to start working on the 2nd SF project ASAP.

Edhy Rijo

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Edhy -

You and Randy Jean and I can get together on this and kick around ideas in Amarillo. VFE has exactly what you are talking about and Randy and I have discussed at length what this design means in the .NET / SF world.

I am starting to think that perhaps this is one of those areas where differences in the way inheritance and other things work in .NET and VFP might mean a different approach to having a custom version of SF classes that would be the starting point for SF projects - i.e. same idea, different implementation.

I'm holding off on even thinking about some of the stuff I want to do until I get training on how to dig into the SF source code without breaking everything like I did the last time. Wink

So far the only principle I am sure carries over from the VFE world into the SF world is the maxim "Don't fight the framework" - or at least that's what I keep repeating to myself over and over agan

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Charles R Hankey (07/06/2008)
Edhy -

You and Randy Jean and I can get together on this and kick around ideas in Amarillo. VFE has exactly what you are talking about and Randy and I have discussed at length what this design means in the .NET / SF world.

Hi Charles,

Sure I am counting on that.  Even my friend Doron Farber will be there with us.

I am starting to think that perhaps this is one of those areas where differences in the way inheritance and other things work in .NET and VFP might mean a different approach to having a custom version of SF classes that would be the starting point for SF projects - i.e. same idea, different implementation.

Agree.  In my VFP-Framework experience, I am used to work with several projects at the same time, and by having the classes level I had, it was pretty easy to just change something at the DEV level and be inherited by all projects if needed to be, and when attempted to create a 3rd project in SF and try to re-used some of the classes or controls I have done, then it came frustration again BigGrin.  Of course this is all due to my lack of knowledge of .NET which I am sure the training will clear out.

I'm holding off on even thinking about some of the stuff I want to do until I get training on how to dig into the SF source code without breaking everything like I did the last time. Wink
Same situation here.

So far the only principle I am sure carries over from the VFE world into the SF world is the maxim "Don't fight the framework" - or at least that's what I keep repeating to myself over and over again
Agree.  I have always told my fellow developers at the VPM (Visual ProMatrix) newsgroup the same thing, and it is because of that maxim that I was able to keep moving in this leaning curve. 

I was a VFE user for the DOS version and got stuck when they did the move to VFP and could not keep waiting for them to have a working VFP framework, so I had to move on, but one thing I love about VFE & VPME is the excellent documentation (help and printed materials) available to learn the tools.  Somehow, I don't see that kind of documentation in the .NET arena, even the VS MSDN help is not friendly, I found it very difficult to find the stuff I need in comparison to the VFP help.  SF help is good but still needs more work, and an option to print out the whole documentation for an easy reading.  If it wasn't for the StrataTrain Videos (even though they are a bit outdated), this forum and the help of everybody here it would have been more difficult and frustrating to get into the .NET arena.

Bottom line, I would be more than happy to get together in Amarillo and discuss about all this in order to enhance the tool we all choose to be the best .NET framework that suits our needs.  I have been using VPM for over 10 years and I am sure you and Randy has been with VFE for many years, so I am glad to be part of this new family, StrataFrame and help in the growing process of our new framework.

Edhy Rijo

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