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Suggestion: all IEWebControls should ship as part of ASP.NET 2.0

I've got a quick suggestion I'm hoping Microsoft would consider: can the IEWebControls (TabStrip Control, et al.) ship as part of the standard package for ASP.NET 2.0? I think the TreeView is great, and it would be perfect if the controls that could be downloaded with 1.x came out-of-the-box with Whidbey.

However, I assume that some of the control aren't fully compliant with all browsers (DHTML issues and whatnot), or at least they weren't a few years ago wheh I first read about them.

Comments?

 

Posted: Dec 11 2003, 08:16 AM by guam-aspdev | with 4 comment(s)
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Jesse Ezell said:

The IE web controls are all pieces of crap that have very bad object models, they should definately NOT be included in ASP.NET 2.0. However, rest assured that you will see a lot of functionality in ASP.NET 2.0 webcontrols that was not in 1.0 (including treeview).
# December 10, 2003 6:14 PM

Jason Salas said:

You think so? I'll agree that their use, either declaratively or programatically is far from simplistic, but you can do some pretty cool things with them.

And, they automate most, if not all, of the DHTML, which I like.

Maybe the suggstion should be:
"I'd like the see variations of the ASP.NET 1.x IEWebControls ship in 2.0, but completely reworked."
# December 10, 2003 6:28 PM

Alex Lowe said:

I haven't checked but you if you are not then you should really be placing these great features/feedback items in either the asp.net forums for Whidbey or the lists at AspAdvice.com to ensure that they are seen by the ASP.NET team.

Additionally, the IEWebControls that were originally shipped were not production quality controls and no one claimed that they were. They were, as I understand it, created to emulate parts of an old version of Outlook Web Access.
# December 10, 2003 8:44 PM

Jason Salas said:

Hi Alex,

Yeah, actually I split the difference and post comments like suggestions in as many places as I can. You never know who'll run across them, or when.
# December 10, 2003 8:50 PM
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