All,
I was wondering if there is anything akin to the MFC App/Doc/View
framework available for VB.NET, either as part of .NET, as a
commercial library or as opensource.
Background
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We are moving from VB6 to VB.NET and are planning to write a number of
applications within VB.NET.
We have a number of ex C++/MFC people who have suggested that we
create an application architecture/framework that can be re-used
throughout all these applications.
This strikes me as a good idea.
When completed we can create an 'out-of-the-box' application that
provides an amount of basic functionality just by deriving the classes
for the new application from a set of base classes. We get a common
look and feel for all the company's apps and it should gets us
focussed on constructing common functionality in a single place, not
having each development group implementing their own version of
something for logging or dataaccess or whatever.
Wins all round.
Problem
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As well as being a good idea this also strikes me as being a LOT of
work.
So it ocurred to me to ask whether something like this already exists
either that we can use - MS provided, Open Source, whatever - or that
we could license.
Thanks in advance for all answers/comments.
S.
