The MM Framework continues our tradition of developer tools that make following best practices easy. It is a written in C# and designed to be used in your .NET application development efforts with C#, VB .NET, or C++. Below you will find many of the reasons why you should take a serious look at MM .NET.

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"I have been using MM .NET Framework for nearly a week. I've just got one word to describe it "Excellent". I don't know why I didn't purchase this many years ago. I have accomplished so much in my application that I am writing in 5 days what has taken months to accomplish without MM .NET Framework." - Fred Besterwitch

Why You Need an Application Framework for .NET

Creating applications in .NET can be difficult—even for those who have some level of experience. There are over 2,000 Microsoft .NET Framework base classes (which means it isn't really a framework!) to choose from when building an application. You can liken the .NET base classes to piles of construction material. Everything you need to build a house is there, you just don’t know where to begin.

Another difficulty is determining “best practices” when creating .NET applications. Many of the .NET samples available in books, magazines, and on line take a simplistic approach to application development that, if followed, can paint you into a corner. This is where the MM .NET Framework comes to the rescue.

Climb the .NET Learning Curve with MM .NET

The MM .NET Framework gives you a tremendous amount of help in climbing the .NET learning curve by providing a high-level Framework for building business applications. Many of the building blocks you would otherwise have to design and create yourself such as business objects, data access classes, database manager, security manager, user manager, and so on, have already been built for you as high-performance, reusable components in MM .NET.

MM .NET teaches you best practices through its documentation, sample applications, and solid, object-oriented architecture. Your .NET applications immediately benefit from the solid foundation provided by MM .NET.

A Framework for C#, VB .NET, and C++ Developers

MM .NET is written in C#, as are Microsoft’s .NET base classes. However, thanks to the language interoperability inherent with .NET (all source code compiles to a single Intermediate Language), MM .NET can be used by C#, VB .NET, C++ and for that matter, any other .NET language.

Flexibility and Solid Object-Oriented Design

One of the biggest complaints developers have about application frameworks is lack of flexibility. This is because many frameworks shoe-horn you into a specific way of doing things. In contrast, at its very foundation, the design of the MM .NET Framework anticipates you may want to do something different. MM .NET’s use of design patterns, abstract classes and interfaces allow you to easily change the Framework’s behavior to suit your needs.

High Performance

In the final analysis, regardless of how “OOP” your applications are, your end users want the application to be fast. With every feature that we add to MM .NET, speed is a primary consideration. We start out with low-overhead designs and continue to tweak the highest possible performance out of them. If you choose to implement some of our special features such as UI-level security or multi-lingual capabilities, you’ll incur very little overhead—and if you choose not to use a particular feature, there’s no overhead at all!

High-Performance Business Objects

Business objects are critical in creating flexible, highly-scalable object-oriented applications. Our high-performance business objects help you create applications that can access data from virtually any back end, and allow you to scale your applications from the desktop to the Internet.

Flexible Data Access

MM .NET business objects allow you to access SQL Server, Oracle, or any OLE DB data source from your application, and even dynamically switch between different types of data at runtime. This flexibility allows you to create a single application that accesses different types of data.

A Single Code Base for WinForms and Web Forms Applications

Many companies create their applications twice—once for the desktop and again for the Internet. MM .NET business objects—which can be used both in desktop and Web applications, allow you to create a single code base that is used from either desktop or the Internet. A single code base means you write, debug, and maintain less code!

It’s Multi-Lingual

MM .NET is designed from the ground up for creating applications that can be multi-lingual. You can even provide end-user access to our intuitive language tools, allowing them to add their own new languages and provide translations for existing text. This feature can also be used to provide variations of text in a single language. This is useful in vertical or horizontal market applications when you want to vary label text, messages, and so on.

Source Code Included!

Although you rarely need to peek under the hood to see what MM .NET is doing behind the scenes, for the times you need to do so, we provide the source code for the entire Framework. If you want to alter the Framework’s behavior, the source code allows you to get an in-depth look at how MM .NET works so you can more easily adapt it to your needs.

Documentation
MM .NET consistently receives high marks from our users for our first-class documentation.

Source Code Documentation
Our documentation starts at the source code level. We make extensive use of XML comments that help you understand what’s going on behind the scenes—even if you are not familiar with C#.

MM .NET Developer’s Guide
Our MM .NET Developer Guide is second to none. It contains both high-level “best practices” information that helps you design solid, object-oriented applications, as well as detailed, step-by-step instructions demonstrating how to best use our Framework classes and tools.

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Pricing
The cost of the MM .NET Framework is $699 per developer, including source code and royalty-free distribution of your applications.
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Current MM VFP users (you must be using version 7.x) can purchase MM .NET for the special price of of $599 per developer. All files are distributed electronically.

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  Last Updated:  June 30, 2008