What are the general thoughts on the 2008v1 release so far? We have just started to use it and don't really see much new or improved. Are there any massive improvements?
Right now we are tryign to decide to renew our subscription or move on to another suite such as Telerik.
The Infragisitcs controsl have been ok and we have usedthem for years but overall they are very heavy for web use and more complex than they need to be. Support and sample code is also weak in our view.
Our thoughts are very much the same as yours i.e. we don't really see any massive new or improved features.
The only real benefit for us is that 2008v1 has resolved a lot of the incompatibility issues when using earlier versions with visual studio 2008!
We are also thinking about moving on to another suite, mainly due to the lack of documentation, comprehensive coding examples and support.
The controls are good, but it just takes too long to learn about how to use them and all of their little nuances. In order to find out more about a particular control, we find ourselves trawling the internet and infragistics forum most of the day. This is both ridiculous and too time consuming. It puts us under the impression that, with the lack of good example code, they really are trying to pedal their training courses. I recently received an advertisement for two of their courses running at about £1000+ each for 2 days training!!! This not only seems like a lot of money but I'm also very dubious about how much could realistically be achieved in those 2 days, given that, at the moment, it takes us about that to learn just "one" control by ourselves!!!
Besides windows form applications, we are also developing a one touch web application. We don't intend to use any of the controls for the web app due to the enormous overhead that they add.
DarrenJLewington said: I recently received an advertisement for two of their courses running at about £1000+ each for 2 days training!!! This not only seems like a lot of money but I'm also very dubious about how much could realistically be achieved in those 2 days, given that, at the moment, it takes us about that to learn just "one" control by ourselves!!!
I recently received an advertisement for two of their courses running at about £1000+ each for 2 days training!!! This not only seems like a lot of money but I'm also very dubious about how much could realistically be achieved in those 2 days, given that, at the moment, it takes us about that to learn just "one" control by ourselves!!!
I just wanted to take a moment to clarify what our pricing for European training courses is. We recently sent out the training newsletter that is available online here, http://ko.infragistics.com/training/newsletters/2008/europe-spring.aspx. If you have received an advertisement for our training courses from somebody other than Infragistics or different from these dates and prices, then you should let us know.
Excluding value added tax (VAT), the price of our two-day instructor-led course Developing Applications with NetAdvantage is 539 GBP. Current pricing for any of our instructor-led courses can always be found on the course schedule page of our website.
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