Are you kidding me lol... Telerik has nothing BUT problems, and what really makes me LMFAO is when you post something on Telerik forums you get the "FAMOUS" old Microsoft answer "We were unable to reproduce the problem must be on your end..." lol Telerik what a Joke...

@Chris

Don't worry, i'm sure no one out there think you are an Uber Elite or even the IG King 

@remi, I will say this you do make me laugh

as I said before, the challenge is interesting and possibly helpful. but it does NOTHING to address the facts that there are issues with this component set, its documentation, support, etc. the whole idea of components is to improve productivity. I find that we sometimes just "roll our own" rather than use the Infragistics components because the time is about the same if we have not yet used the component. And our home-brewed solution always has greater flexibility.

I'm especially frustrated right now with the web scheduler which has serious limitations and Infragistics won't give me any idea as to whether they will be fixed next release, this year or ever! Since Telerik has released a more complete web scheduler and Infragistics won't say whether/when theirs will be improved we have no choice but to build our own or jump ship. Based on many of the comments here I'm moving toward the water!

 Chris, I just looked around your site. Is this really new? I see only a smattering of content and all 12 of the forum posts are from you! This thread is probably helping your traffic though! :) Oh and I got the challenge demo to work but I'm not sure what is active yet as I only noticed panels open/close and the left accordian seems to be working. Might help if you did a brief list of features to check out for each update; that way you focus people's attention on the active features and avoid the "click everywhere why doesn't this work" syndrome!

I think what Chris is doing is great for the community. It will help those struggling with the IG controls to have a look at a real world application and through the tutorial learn how to acheive it. This can only be a good thing and I think Chris should be commended for doing it. However am I convinced that IG is great? and am I ready to buy the kneepads? Not just yet. Just as other people have posted, there are still some underlying issues with the IG controls that have alienated a lot of customers. There is a one way trend of people leaving IG and moving to Telerik and apparantly NOT the other way round. The real issue here (and to be productive) is to establish why the trend is happening and why customers feel so let down by IG. We could argue back and forth that Telerik is better blah blah blah, but this is an IG forum and I for one hope that this discussion and others alike would shed some light on what customers want and what they feel is lacking.

@Chris

your Outlook demo so far is impressive and it has raised (just a little) my perception of IG. However the standard IG webcombo is a bloated dropdown with a grid attached to it. This is just one of the controls that IG have done wrong. Why do I say that, well try to replicate the Outlook 2007 webcombo properly. You will notice that the original contains a dropdown menu. To achieve something like this in Telerik is a breeze as pretty much all their controls have templatable items. This means I can easily integrate pretty much any control as a template. I may be wrong so please enlighten me if I am.

@michael

I get the frustration with the webcombo (grid) and not going to argue that, "however" my plan for the dropdown in the outlook demo is not going to use the webcombo (for that matter didn't even cross my mind to use it) but rather was going to use the igmenu that way not only could I list submenus "like in outlook" "Recent Searches->Search Results" but at the same time have menu options... :)