1. What is Visual ProMatrix?
2. Why do I need a Visual FoxPro framework?
3. Visual FoxPro provides a framework; why would I need Visual ProMatrix?
4. How can I evaluate Visual ProMatrix at no risk to me? Do you have a demo version?
5. How can I contact ProMatrix users to hear their comments about Visual ProMatrix?
6. What technical support comes with Visual ProMatrix? Can you prove that it's quick and responsive?
7. Does Visual ProMatrix come with printed documentation? How good is it?
8. How does Visual ProMatrix compare to other VFP frameworks?
9. I tried another VFP framework and it was full of bugs. How can I be assured that Visual ProMatrix is stable and relatively bug-free?
10. My applications work with large databases. How does a Visual ProMatrix application perform with hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of records?
11. Can I create multilingual applications with Visual ProMatrix?
12. Can I create client-server applications with Visual ProMatrix?
13. Does VPM work with other 3^rd party VFP tools?
14. What's the Visual ProMatrix learning curve?
15. Do you provide Visual ProMatrix training?
16. What version of Visual ProMatrix do I need?
17. I want to pay as little as possible for a VFP Framework. What is a fair price for Visual ProMatrix?
18. How can I purchase Visual ProMatrix?

• Framework Classes: The first step in creating a VFP development environment is the creation of the application, form, control, etc. classes on which your applications will be based. Creating your own framework classes, can take many months, if not years. Visual ProMatrix provides a complete set of robust, well-tested classes that turbo-charge your application development.
• Organizes: Visual ProMatrix organizes Visual FoxPro application development. The VPM menu structure leads you through the development of applications and puts the tools needed to create professional applications at your fingertips.
• Automates: Visual ProMatrix is a Visual FoxPro application wizard.  VPM automatically generates a sophisticated application foundation. You develop an application using VPM and Visual FoxPro classes, Designers and Builders.  As you build an application, Visual ProMatrix automatically inserts the Visual FoxPro code needed to open tables, control access to data, validate data, secure applications, and much more.
• Enhances: Visual ProMatrix adds the tools and features expected in professional database applications.  Application tools such as a fully-active data dictionary, a report manager, an error handler and security controls enhance applications and make them more valuable to users.
• Teaches: If you’re a beginner, Visual ProMatrix will teach you how you can use Visual FoxPro to develop sophisticated database applications.  Even if you’re an experienced developer, you will increase your knowledge of Visual FoxPro and application development while using ProMatrix.

Visual FoxPro is an extremely powerful database management system that can be used by:

• Beginners to easily maintain and report on simple databases

• Advanced users to manipulate and query data

• Developers to create complex and sophisticated database applications.

Because Visual FoxPro must serve all users, it is not designed and organized solely for application development.  Application developers must seek out and master the parts of Visual FoxPro they need, and then bring those parts together to form an application. 

Visual ProMatrix organizes Visual FoxPro for application development and provides pre-built application utilities that every professional database application needs. Visual ProMatrix turns Visual FoxPro into an application-specific database management system. Visual ProMatrix adds to and organizes Visual FoxPro's rich set of application development tools to create a powerful, specialized application development platform.

Visual ProMatrix provides the building blocks and tools that every professional Visual FoxPro application should have. Visual ProMatrix lets you, as a Visual FoxPro developer, concentrate your time and financial resources on your application’s unique functionality knowing that  Visual ProMatrix will take care of everything else.  

Here are only a few of the many reasons that you should use Visual ProMatrix for all your Visual FoxPro development:

Save Time
Visual ProMatrix can reduce your application development time by as much as 90%. In just a few minutes VPM will automatically create a starter application for you that would take the an experienced Visual FoxPro developer over a year to create from scratch. Time means money. Visual ProMatrix can reduce your application development time by as much as 90%. In just a few minutes VPM will automatically create a starter application for you that would take the an experienced Visual FoxPro developer over a year to create from scratch. Time means money.

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
To use Visual FoxPro and object-oriented programming properly, you need to create an application foundation with classes that provide the blueprints for the objects in your applications. You could easily spend a year or more just creating your application foundation and classes. Why reinvent the wheel? Right out of the box Visual ProMatrix provides an application foundation with more classes than you would probably ever create on your own.

Automated Development
Visual ProMatrix’s many builders automate your application development. The VPM Application Builder creates a starter application in minutes. The many VPM Form Builders automate the creation of complex forms. With VPM you can create complex applications without ever writing a line of Visual FoxPro code.

Get Organized
Visual ProMatrix organizes Visual FoxPro development. Visual ProMatrix leads you through the development of powerful Visual FoxPro applications. With VPM you’ll quickly learn how VFP apps should be created.

Professional Features
Visual ProMatrix automatically adds the tools and features expected in professional applications to every application you create. Security, audit trails, error handling and much more can be part of every application without writing one line of Visual FoxPro code.

Well-Tested Code
Thousands of ProMatrix applications are in use all over the world. That means the ProMatrix code and application foundation have been thoroughly tested by thousands of users. It’s like having your own staff of testers.

Professional Support
When you need help, it’s only a phone call or Email away. Our Internet support facilities quickly put you in touch with us and other VPM developers who are ready to lend a hand 24 hours a day.

Have It Your Way
Visual ProMatrix gives you complete freedom to create Visual FoxPro applications your way. A VPM application is 100% VFP. You can access all the features of both VPM and VFP to create exactly what you want.

Provides Standards
Every developer knows the importance of coding and development standards, but few developers get around to implementing them. When developers work together, standards become essential. You and your development staff will quickly learn to appreciate the coding standards and strict adherence to standards that you will find in a Visual ProMatrix application. Your staff can adopt the same standards for their development efforts and thereby avoid the time and expense of creating their own.

For a somewhat humorous analysis of why you need Visual ProMatrix, go to: "Who Should Not Use ProMatrix". 

Product Information: The ProMatrix Web is a treasure house of information about Visual ProMatrix and all the ProMatrix Products. Starting from the Home Page, you will find product feature lists, product benefits lists and information designed to answer your many questions.

ProMatrix Customer Service: When you have questions about ProMatrix Products feel free to call or send an email. We believe that we are the only VFP framework vendor that you can reach by phone. You will find our telephone numbers and email addresses on our Contact Us page.

User Endorsements: Many ProMatrix have voluntarily sent us glowing endorsements of ProMatrix. You will find a sample of the user endorsements we have received at: User Endorsements.

Visit the ProMatrix Newsgroups, and you will find that the ProMatrix user community is the largest and most supportive by far. The messages on the ProMatrix Newsgroups clearly show how quickly a user can obtain support when needed.

• How to Choose a Visual FoxPro Framework: This page suggests some guidelines to follow in comparing frameworks.
• Why You Should Choose ProMatrix: This page lists and describes many of the tools and features that are unique to Visual ProMatrix. You won't find these tools and features in any other framework.

Many ProMatrix users have tried other frameworks before choosing Visual ProMatrix. Those users tell us that:

1. Visual ProMatrix is the easiest framework to learn and use.
2. Visual ProMatrix is the most stable and bug-free framework.
3. Visual ProMatrix provides the most functionality.
4. Visual ProMatrix applications provide maximum performance.

Leave a message on the ProMatrix Developers Newsgroup asking for user opinions regarding VPM's stability.

There are thousands of Visual ProMatrix applications running all over the world. Many Visual ProMatrix applications have been in production for many years. As a result, the framework code provided by Visual ProMatrix has been thoroughly tested. No individual developer could ever test the developer's own code as thoroughly as VPM code has been tested.

When you build an application with Visual ProMatrix, your application will perform optimally regardless of whether your application's tables contain only hundreds or many millions of records.

Visual ProMatrix is the only VFP framework that provides the multilingual capabilities that you will enjoy with the Multilingual Toolkit.

To learn more about the ProMatrix Multilingual Toolkit, click here.

To download the Multilingual Toolkit documentation, click here.

We have designed VPM Enterprise to make it easy to create client-server applications. With VPM Enterprise, you can create one application that can access either local or remote data at the flip of a switch. 

A Visual ProMatrix application is 100% Visual FoxPro code. Therefore, any Active X controls or any other utilities that you can include in a VFP application can be included in a VPM application.

In addition, we have been holding classroom training sessions since 1995. Our training sessions are tailored for beginners, intermediate users and advanced users. In addition to classroom VPM/VFP training, we also host our unique VPM Solutions Workshops, which are designed to address the specific needs of attendees.

To learn more about ProMatrix training, click here.

Use the following guidelines to determine the version of Visual ProMatrix appropriate for you:

• VPM Enterprise: If your applications need to work with both local and remote data (client-server) and your applications need a full suite of business tools and features, use VPM Enterprise. 
• VPM Standard: If your applications only need to work with local data and they need few business tools and features, use VPM Standard.

You will find a comparison of the tools and features included in the two VPM Editions at:

VPM Editions Comparison Chart

• VPM Enterprise: VPM Enterprise is our highest priced framework, but the fact is that there is simply no other VFP framework that comes close to providing everything VPM Enterprise gives you. 
• VPM Standard: VPM Standard is our lowest priced framework, and it is comparable in terms of tools and features to VFP frameworks selling for hundreds of dollars more. However, there's no other VFP framework with the stability and OOP design of VPM Standard.

As far as the difference in price among the available VFP frameworks goes, you generally get what you pay for. While the available frameworks don't vary all that much in price, they do vary significantly in what they give you. You will find that a low-priced framework has a low price for a reason. It may not provide many tools and features. It may not have been on the market long. In any event, as you compare prices, keeping the following important quotation in mind:  

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten!"
 

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