HI
I upgraded to 7.3 clr 3 from 6.2. All of a sudden I am getting all of thses errors that used to work. The WegGrid properties used to wortk now they are read only???? DisplayLayout.RowSelectorStyleDefault etc. First of all why?????? Second what am I supposed to do. Now I have to waste a LOT OF TIME DOING RESEARCH INTO CHANGING MY APP. I am livid. Absollutley livid. It seems to happen ALL OF THE TIME. I am wondering if it is worth the aggravation to continue using these products. You obvioulsy do not care about the programmer.
Gary Goodwin
gary.goodwin@gmail.com
Hello Gary,
I understand your frustration, because I had the same problems with infragistics products (ASP.NET). Hopefully, I found a solution to all my problems (buggy controls, lack of support, ....). I flush all my infragistics controls and now I use Telerik controls wich are bug free, you have a great support, controls respects standards (asp.net ajax, XHTML) and are easy to use....
For sure it has a cost for you to change, but I'm sure that this cost is less expensive than continue to work with buggy controls.
Cedric D
Are you kidding me lol... Telerik has nothing BUT problems, and what really makes me LMFAO is when you post something on Telerik forums you get the "FAMOUS" old Microsoft answer "We were unable to reproduce the problem must be on your end..." lol Telerik what a Joke...
Wow Cedric I know that post will upset some people here. I like a lot of IG customers are continually rooting for IG, praying that one day they will get their docs in order, their support in gear, their promises kept and their products (ASP.NET) up to scratch. Whilst IG is fully aware of these problems and are trying to get them corrected, I fear that for a lot of customers its much too late. I like a hord of other people have reacently moved over to Telerik and never looked back (with regards to ASP.NET). Now I know some people dislike the idea of mentioning competitors software but I for one think that IG should be aware of what competitor and what products are tempting their customers away and why. Competitor analysis could be a very useful tool and an insight into the minds of their current customers and what their descision process is essential. So why after years of IG did I decide to move vendors. Well here is my list
1) 2007 up to 2008 had an extremely lacklustre bunch of releases. The releases which did have some interesting features(Styling application) also produced nightmarish complications for those who upgraded to them. Major styles in my current application was screwed up to such a point that I actually had to go back to 2006 and wait for 2007.v2 . Telerik on the other hand were boasting some really impressive (USEFULL) features for their ASP.NET suite, and each update lived up to its expectation. Check out their 2008 release its the Aikido dream fully realised. I mean splitter (with sliding panes), feature packed windows, powerful calendars, rediculously fast grid etc all running with ASP.NET AJAX and optimised to the core.
2) I always wondered who was in charge of deciding what controls to release. In the previous forum there were HUGE screams for a lightwieght webcombo. It was pretty much the most requested control. So IG knowing these starts on Aikido and gives us a sort of scrolling gallery thingy. Nice but what happened to the webcombo? Who the heck decided that the gallery thingy would take priority over the webcombo. IG ARE U LISTENING. Now back to Telerik, all their controls (and I mean all) are usefull and in fact I am using pretty much every control in their toolset on my most reacent project. Each control generating minimal html and javascript and using naming conventions similar to Microsoft.
3) In the last forum, when IG was getting slated I would be the first to step in and back IG and told them all that Aikido will right the wrongs of their current platform. It promised soo much and I had faith that IG would step up and show everyone. With 2007 being such a dissapointing year(customer view on IG releases) there was hope amongst the community that 2008 v1 would pretty much shut everyone up and put IG back on track for No1 vender. Woe was me when I finally saw the release. Aikido was nothing to shout home about, nothing great or innovative came out and from what I hear on these forums it was bug ridden. So what about Telerik eh, to me Aikido is playing catch up to Telerik. IG are just MILES behind on pretty much every department.
I could go on and on about documentation, community experiance, support and so on, but I guess IG are already aware of this and pretty much dont need me drumming on and on about it. So why do I bother? At heart I am still an IG fan boy waiting for IG to really step up. I am also interested in their Silverlight stuff so from time to time I visit the board. I just hope someone in the IG team, steps back and says "boyz we got a whole bunch of upset and disenchanted customers here, we need to focus on our core products and make them right, we need to release products that these guys are screaming for, we need to up the anty in our support and docs, cos if we dont we are gonna loose more good customers."
Lets hope eh.