Jeff and .NET

Hi Guys.

Off the topic a bit, but does any one know if it's possible to add total line in the grid?

This total might not Necessarily be at the end of the grid

I am using Component Art Grid control in my project. I have defined a server template in a Hierarchical grid in which i have used a DropDownList control. My requirement is that Whenever I change dropdownlist, the record in the down level grid should get updated. My client doesn't want to use any edit item template to edit and then update. He want this to be happen, in the present item template only. When I try to achieve this, I can't find any help or resource for this components from web. Can anybody help me out for this?.

I have to disagree with the value of Component Art.  I was very enticed by the visuals and the demos on their site at first, and so I purchased the product.  However, when used in an enterprise environment, it just doesn't hold up very well.  Especially in regards to their Grid control.

It doesn't inherit from GridView, so any advanced extensions that you'd like to do are not really possible, and their support is non-existent.  I agree with the comment about hobby sites.

If you use their controls EXACTLY like the code is shown in their demos, they will work.  If you have realistic requirements with Clients asking for custom modifications to pagination, sorting, etc...you're in trouble.

Their controls look amazing, but they aren't practical for professional development.

I work for a one of the three biggest isp's in SA in a department that builds massive web applications and we use component art.  Perhaps because our subscription is so massive, we have very few problems with their support, although when we started using ajax we did have a few problems getting a version out of them that didn't conflict with the ajax generated javascript.

CA have a good range of controls and they can look fantastic, however as comments above state their support leaves a lot to be desired.  They seem to reply on the 'community' to support the software, unless you want to pay for support - which is far from swift.

I have had issued with scalability in the Grid and recently added ComboBox controls, especialyl when using AJAX/Callback functionality - also the documentation is far from complete and assumes far too much.

CA continue to add new controls to their We.UI suite without addressing the missing features and bugs in their existing and most-used controls.

However, saying that I continue to use them daily - the licensing is pretty cheap and I have some sort of 'faith' in them to deliver better products in the future.

Has anyone here also used Infragistics and can compare the two suits?

Cheers,

Ben

From last 6-7 months i have worked on ComponentArt controls.I feel like it is easy to use beacuse the good documentation provided on their site.

You can create for diffrent platforms like xp,vista,outlook all syyle sheet and code are provided on their site. as i have almost 80% of controls used.

Advantages :

1.Fast

2.Good UI

3.easy to code

4.AJAX Compatible

Regards,

Rohit Nadhe

I've just started using component art and find the examples VERY limiting. Only basic info with examples that don't meet the real world situations.

Whenever anybody asks a question on the forums they are refered to look at previous published examples, never a new thought.

ComponentArt is painful to use, things that should be simple eg. Don't display grid heading just isn't simple.