Anything out there better than .netSHIP?

You know, I really dislike this component. I dislike everything about it. For one thing, the owner has been extremely rude to customers on the ASP.NET Forums. I dislike the support. I dislike the fact that they don't have a free trial. I dislike the fact that they don't have an enterprise license, and the component takes almost 9 hours of work out of my paycheck to purchase. I dislike that the data comes back as a collection and not a DataSet. Most of all, I dislike it because I am relegated to using it because I can't find any other component that supports as many shippers. Have you guys seen anything better, or am I going to have to either force myself to live with my discontentment or write my own?

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  • I don't know of anything better (unfortunately). I agree that the design of this component is really sucky though. We have considered writing our own component for this (which we would, of course, make available to others), but, alas, there are not enough hours in the day and we have more pressing projects to finish up right now. In the mean time, we will use dot net ship, because it does actually work great once you have everything coded, it is just the initial coding that can be a pain because of the way they architected the component. But hey, that doesn't make them any different from any other third part component vendor.





    In my experience, 99% of programmers live in a little bubble where that "teach yourself VB in 21 days" book tells them everything they ever needed to know about programming. They don't care about design (at least of their products, but shame on any developer who gives them code that is hard to work with). I think, the other 1% work for Microsoft... they sure as hell don't work for any third party component vendors I've seen.

  • I agree with Jesse...but look on the bright side, there's so many .NET developers out there right now looking for interesting project that this thing will be superceded in a few months...

  • And also, .netShip has VERY limited support for non-US shippers!

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