Commercial .NET GUI Libraries
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During the last month or so, several articles dealing with .NET GUI extensions (controls like menus, toolbars, docking frames etc.) were posted on CP. Some of those were work of CP'an Carlos Peres, others were from Crownwood DotNetMagic. The thing that really supriced me was the quality of those products - they were actually better that commercial software that I had a chance to see so far. I've tried Sax.net SmartUI, it works fine, but it simply lacks some features that should be considered as granted (can't dock toolbar vertically, tab strip is not really the tab pages control and so on). The only other library that I am aware of is Infogistics suite which is not fully available at present time. Now, I know that it's everybodies learning time at the moment, but it's almost absurd that individual efforts are giving better results than those of commercial companies. The only thing that were (almost) always missing from those individual projects is ability to incorporate their controls in the toolbox and provide us with full design-time environment. Apart from that, they are ahead of their commercial 'competition'. I might be wrong with this, but has anybody seen really good and comprehensive .NET GUI library yet? The reason I am asking this is that I am confronted with the imminent decision to choose GUI library for the project I am working on. Any suggestion is appreciated. Cheers, Dejan Petrovic
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During the last month or so, several articles dealing with .NET GUI extensions (controls like menus, toolbars, docking frames etc.) were posted on CP. Some of those were work of CP'an Carlos Peres, others were from Crownwood DotNetMagic. The thing that really supriced me was the quality of those products - they were actually better that commercial software that I had a chance to see so far. I've tried Sax.net SmartUI, it works fine, but it simply lacks some features that should be considered as granted (can't dock toolbar vertically, tab strip is not really the tab pages control and so on). The only other library that I am aware of is Infogistics suite which is not fully available at present time. Now, I know that it's everybodies learning time at the moment, but it's almost absurd that individual efforts are giving better results than those of commercial companies. The only thing that were (almost) always missing from those individual projects is ability to incorporate their controls in the toolbox and provide us with full design-time environment. Apart from that, they are ahead of their commercial 'competition'. I might be wrong with this, but has anybody seen really good and comprehensive .NET GUI library yet? The reason I am asking this is that I am confronted with the imminent decision to choose GUI library for the project I am working on. Any suggestion is appreciated. Cheers, Dejan Petrovic
Try http://www.syncfusion.com/ (new window). They have an awesome GUI library and a Windows Form FAQ that helped me out quite a bit. Jason Gerard
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Try http://www.syncfusion.com/ (new window). They have an awesome GUI library and a Windows Form FAQ that helped me out quite a bit. Jason Gerard
Yes, this one looks more serious and much more professional. Thanks for the advice. Regards, Dejan Petrovic