Controls Suite Suggestions
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We are looking at purchasing some Windows Forms and Asp.Net controls, which would you recommend? Devexpress, Infragistics, or any other? I am currently leaning to Devexpress, but would like to know your experiences with support and the like.
Mike Lasseter
We're using Devexpress and its ok except for some of the built in behaviors on a few controls (ex DevExpress.XtraTreeList.TreeList). The selection behavior on the TreeList control is WACK I tell ya WACK! You can code around it but having to do so is annoying. We also found that if you want to add a fixed height panel and a fill-down panel inside of a docking control that the auto-layout doesn't work as expected. If you drag on a slider handle and drag to far away from the control it snaps back (WHAT?) I guess every toolkit will have its pros and cons and there's really no way to find these things out ahead of time is there?
Todd Smith
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norm .net wrote:
uni-sniper.
hehe, sticks and stones.... but virtual bullets will never harm me.
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We're using Devexpress and its ok except for some of the built in behaviors on a few controls (ex DevExpress.XtraTreeList.TreeList). The selection behavior on the TreeList control is WACK I tell ya WACK! You can code around it but having to do so is annoying. We also found that if you want to add a fixed height panel and a fill-down panel inside of a docking control that the auto-layout doesn't work as expected. If you drag on a slider handle and drag to far away from the control it snaps back (WHAT?) I guess every toolkit will have its pros and cons and there's really no way to find these things out ahead of time is there?
Todd Smith
Yes, these are some of the issues we encountered as well. There are also subtle visual differences between the standard Windows controls and their versions. They are easier to program to than the Infragistics controls, but have some visual anomolies.
Scott.
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What could be cheaper than doing it yourself ;)
WPF - Imagineers Wanted Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath
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Seems you and me are the target of the uni-sniper.
WPF - Imagineers Wanted Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath
I voted you a 1 earlier for your really bad advice about writing your own. The poster was asking about a suite of asp.net and winform controls. Writing your own is something you do if you want to be in the control business and really feel good about reinventing wheels; if you want to make any money writing other software that uses controls you need to avoid writing one single letter of code you don't have to. In the time it would take me to write a control that was globalized, internationalized, vista and prior compatible, fully tested and maintained for life I could add a stunning new feature to my software that would sell thousands of dollars more licenses over it's lifetime. Control suites are dirt cheap by comparison to what it would take to write them. For just slightly over a thousand dollars you can get every control DevExpress makes which dozens for winforms, dozens for asp.net, reporting, grids, charts, you name it, with source code. It probably cost them millions of dollars to develop those controls and thousands of dollars a week just to maintain them. There's no logical reason to ever write your own control unless you want to learn about it, fill a micro niche or for a hobby.
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We are looking at purchasing some Windows Forms and Asp.Net controls, which would you recommend? Devexpress, Infragistics, or any other? I am currently leaning to Devexpress, but would like to know your experiences with support and the like.
Mike Lasseter
I have to say that I find DevExpress to be easier than Infragistics. There's also DevComponents - they're quite good.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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We are looking at purchasing some Windows Forms and Asp.Net controls, which would you recommend? Devexpress, Infragistics, or any other? I am currently leaning to Devexpress, but would like to know your experiences with support and the like.
Mike Lasseter
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We are looking at purchasing some Windows Forms and Asp.Net controls, which would you recommend? Devexpress, Infragistics, or any other? I am currently leaning to Devexpress, but would like to know your experiences with support and the like.
Mike Lasseter
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We are looking at purchasing some Windows Forms and Asp.Net controls, which would you recommend? Devexpress, Infragistics, or any other? I am currently leaning to Devexpress, but would like to know your experiences with support and the like.
Mike Lasseter
I highly suggest you review your UI requirements. In most case, the standard UI are good enough. If what you want is pure eye candy, then you must accept the fact that you are introducting unneccessary bugs into you product, for what you think looks good. All these controls looks pretty close to what they are trying to clone, but if you started looking, there are always little details missing, or not behave as expected. IMO, I stick to standard UI whenever possible.
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Yikes! Most unintentionally sarcastic statement of the year. :)
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