I'm more and more impressed with Visual Pro Matrix
In addition to the Donor Manager, I've also been working on another major software project. It's an update to an Academic Records Management program that I've been working on at various schools in various versions over the past 10 years.
For this latest version, I decided to build it on the Visual Pro-Matrix framework. Although the learning curve is not insiginificant, the more and more I work with Pro-Matrix, the more I like it.
Basically, it is an add-on to Visual FoxPro that helps manage the development of complex software projects. It is a framework, an advanced data dictionary, plus a very rich set of object libraries that can really enhance the development of programs.
I don't like the way that it does everything, but everything is customizable it has a tremendous feature set. It is going to be a major asset to this software.
I'm writing this for Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi (www.wbs.edu). We're making it as flexible as possible so that other schools who might have need of a program like this could benefit as well.
If you track things like this, it has a similar feature set as TROUSERS (www.trousers.org), but goes beyond it in a number of area (way beyond it in several areas).
If you have a need for database programming, I'd recommend taking a look at ProMatrix. They are also working on a .NET version and a ASP.NET version as well to help automate .NET development for the desktop and the web.
It can use about any back end database (native Fox Tables, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc.), and fully supports an n-tier architecture (if you know what that means, you know why it is important).
For this latest version, I decided to build it on the Visual Pro-Matrix framework. Although the learning curve is not insiginificant, the more and more I work with Pro-Matrix, the more I like it.
Basically, it is an add-on to Visual FoxPro that helps manage the development of complex software projects. It is a framework, an advanced data dictionary, plus a very rich set of object libraries that can really enhance the development of programs.
I don't like the way that it does everything, but everything is customizable it has a tremendous feature set. It is going to be a major asset to this software.
I'm writing this for Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi (www.wbs.edu). We're making it as flexible as possible so that other schools who might have need of a program like this could benefit as well.
If you track things like this, it has a similar feature set as TROUSERS (www.trousers.org), but goes beyond it in a number of area (way beyond it in several areas).
If you have a need for database programming, I'd recommend taking a look at ProMatrix. They are also working on a .NET version and a ASP.NET version as well to help automate .NET development for the desktop and the web.
It can use about any back end database (native Fox Tables, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc.), and fully supports an n-tier architecture (if you know what that means, you know why it is important).
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