Okay, since this in now my headquarters for all things .NET this is probably a good place to ask :



I have a client ( a CPA ) who wants to hire me to write a fund-based accounting package - a low priced vertical. He wants me to write it in VFP since that is what he's familiar with but wants a big selling point to be interface - themes etc.



Of course two things strike me immediately : writing an accounting package is reinventing a wheel - with no points for creativity or deviating from accepted practices. And while I love the Fox and can make it do just about any trick it can do and even teach it some new ones ... this isn't even a contest between VFP and .NET.



Soooo.... this may be my first .NET job. My thought is I'd like to buy serious VB .NET 2005 source code - including fund accounting - and then do whatever is needed to make it dance with Strataframe, Infragistics, DDT.



I have found http://www.integralaccountingenterprise.com/ ( company is SFTB ) which certainly looks like everything I ever dreamed of and probalby cost effective at about $10k with a very good developer licensing agreement. Anybody know of it or of other options.



This really seems like a better fit in .NET with prebought and tested accounting modules so any suggestions anyone has will be quite welcome.



TIA



Charles