Should we be worried about the health of Infragistics? In prior years a Vol 2 release would be imminent about now, but we've not even see a Vol 1 release yet! Other than perhaps the Windows Phone stuff, It doesn't look like anything has been updated this year. Has there been a reduction in staff, or just a major shift of resources away from the NetAdvantage products onto something else?
The Windows Forms roadmap seems pretty thin this year too, but perhaps that reflects industry trends...
Yikes, 6 days and still no reply. Please note that I was not asking for a release date. As a developer, I understand that those are touchy.
My question was about your 2011 road map, or lack thereof. When there is a sudden break in the regular Infragistics release cycles we've been used to, it makes us wonder. A lack of explanation leaves even your long-time customers to fear the worst. I would think that renewals are pretty important to you.
It sounds like I'm not the only customer wondering what's going on here.
Hi Ridge, I didn't see a question in the original post ... sorry about the delay in response. With the multiple new products - jQuery CTP, Reporting CTP, Mobile CTP - and all of the goodness in 11.1 that we talked about here, we've been busy :
http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/derek_harmon/archive/2011/04/07/jquery-html5-suite-word-library-network-amp-org-chart-and-much-more-coming-in-netadvantage-11-1.aspx
Are there specific features you are looking for in Windows Forms? That team is alive and well, and we are planning 12.1 / 12.2 right now, so if you'd like to see something in there, shoot me an email at jasonb@infragistics.com.
11.1 is slated for June 6th (fingers crossed, we hit code freeze on the jQuery product last week), 11.2 will come in the fall (usually Oct/Nov), and in between you will see a bunch of other exciting releases - We'll have more major product released this year than we ever have - as well as ahuge web site update:
http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/derek_harmon/archive/2011/03/15/sneak-peek-at-the-new-infragistics-com.aspx
Hope this helps!
Jason
Jason Beres said: 11.1 is slated for June 6th (fingers crossed)...
11.1 is slated for June 6th (fingers crossed)...
Today is June 6. Let's hope so!
Regards, Lello
Looks like another day or so ... we discovered a bug in the jQuery slider control in samples testing that we fixed this morning which caused a rebuild of that installer and some re-testing to be done. It's looking like tomorrow we will post the bits to the CDN/web updates, which takes a little less than a day to propogate so you should be seeing an emailer from Marketing announcing the release on Weds AM along with an email with your CD Keys. If anything changes I'll post again,
Thanks
<<< you should be seeing an emailer from Marketing announcing the release on Weds AM along with an email with your CD Keys. If anything changes I'll post again >>>
Since I didn't receive an email from marketing announcing the release this Wednesday morning, I'd guess that things have changed.
Jason - can you post the update as you promised?
I am a little confused about why volume one is being released in June... are we back down to two releases a year after making a big deal of going back to three releases last year?
Looking back, as the first post says, volume 2 was released on 15th June last year. Volume 1 was in March!
Is there a release roadmap with actual dates like previous years?
To be honest, I prefer fewer releases if this helps improve compatability and stability of the controls. I usually fear upgrading to the latest hotfix for the ASP.NET controls to the latest version as something usually breaks, let alone a major version.
That said, this has not happened for the last two hotfixes so maybe stability is improving.
Personally, one major update a year is fine for me. The support agreement is equally to ensure you can keep supporting the latest versions of the browsers although Infragistics record recently (see very late release of IE9 support) isn't lilly white in this area.
Cheers, Rob.