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Question About Licensing

Xiaochen posted over 12 years ago

Hi,

We are looking for upgrading our infragistics 2009 to 2011 to support Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. I have two questions as below:

1. Whether there is license for upgrading from 2009 to NetAdvantage for .NET 2011? or we need to purchase completely new license?

2. I understand the infragistics license is per developer. Wondering if we need to purchase license for developers who don't touch/edit Infragistics UI components at all, but simply build it. It seems there is a way to build .NET solution in Visual Studio which references Infragstics DLLs without license. But wanted to check and make sure this is not against the license policy.

Thanks a lot!

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Jeremy Jacobs posted over 12 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out to Infragistics! I've directed your question to your Infragistics Account Manager. She will be following up with you shortly and will handle all of your questions.

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Jeremy Jacobs

Sales Operations Manager

Infragistics Inc.
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Mark Howard posted over 12 years ago in reply to Jeremy Jacobs

Jeremy,

I have similar questions I would like to have answered by someone. Ill copy the specific question below. If I should direct this question somewhere else, please let me know. Thanks

We are thinking about upgrading from an older version of .net controls (v9.1) to the latest controls to ensure browser compatibility. We have yet to purchase the new controls and would like to have a couple questions answered before we proceed.

Context/Application:

We have a suite of tools that includes a small web piece that has a couple ultrawebgrids that are not working in newer browsers. We are looking to replace these grids. We have quite a few developers that would need to be able to build the web application, but only a handful of developers that would touch the html/front end and need the license for the newer controls.

Questions:

1.)    What is the process for upgrading from 9.1 to the latest controls?

Are there more instructions anywhere to be found besides http://es.infragistics.com/community/blogs/taz_abdeali/archive/2011/11/17/asp-net-product-changes-in-2011-volume-2.aspx? Maybe even a guide more specific to the older controls.

2.)    What is the process for getting a .NET web project to build in visual studio without a infragistics license?

Only a handful of developers need access to the ability to work with the Infragistics controls or front end of the web app, but lots more developers need the ability to build the solution and work on the business layer of the application. We have noticed that this seems to be a common request but havnt found any solid instructions on setting up a visual studio project to be able to be worked with without having the controls installed on your machine.

3.)    Are there any guides for replacing the old UltraGrids with the new WebDataGrids?

We leverage a lot of functionality of the old grids and would like to know if there are any more complete guides on replacing these old controls, as far as all the different server and client API.

Please advise.
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Offline Maya Kirova posted over 12 years ago in reply to Mark Howard
Hello Mark,

Thank you for your patience.

1)       Basically when upgrading from an older version that has the retired classical control to a new one that does not have them you have two options:

Migrate to the new controls. In other words change all the old controls with their new aikido equivalents. However keep in mind that will require a considerable amount of effort since the Aikido controls are based on a different framework and most of the properties ,methods and events will not match with the ones you had for the classical controls.

Specifically for the UltraWebGrid migration you can refer to the cheat sheet for the WebDataGrid/WebHierachicalDataGrid. It covers most of the behaviors ,properties and methods. You can find it here: http://es.infragistics.com/community/blogs/craig_shoemaker/archive/2011/07/11/introducing-the-webdatagrid-webhierarchicaldatagrid-cheat-sheet.aspx

You can use the so called version-free assemblies. They ship as part of the installation so you can find them in the directory where you install the product. By default it should be:

C:\Program Files \Infragistics\NetAdvantage 2012.2\ASP.NET\Version-Free

These assemblies can be used with other assembly versions. So you can use your old assemblies for the classical controls together with them. There’s an example and a walkthrough on how to set that up in the “I am in the middle of migrating over to the new toolset, how can I use both Classic & New Controls?” section at the following link: http://es.infragistics.com/community/blogs/taz_abdeali/archive/2011/11/17/asp-net-product-changes-in-2011-volume-2.aspx

There are two download links there. Select the one for your CLR. The download will contain an “Upgrade Guide” and a zipped example “OldAndNew”.

2)       If your developers need to compile the UI then they need a license and NetAdvantage should be installed. Note that you can set up a build server and have building be done on the build server as long as the person who maintains the build scripts has a license.

3)       The cheat sheet I referred to is not really a migration guide but covers most of the functionalities of the WebDataGrid/WebHierachicalDataGrid so it would be a good place to start.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best Regards,

Maya Kirova

Developer Support Engineer

Infragistics, Inc.

http://es.infragistics.com/support
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Jeremy Jacobs posted over 12 years ago in reply to Mark Howard

Hi Mark,

I've spoken with our support team and a member of our team will reach out to you directly in regard to your questions.

Thanks,

Jeremy Jacobs

Director, Business Solutions
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