@dr, amen to that

@John, I just put the site online last week and haven't had time to post all my code snippets and tutorials and just put up a couple to make sure the areas actually work etc. and have been slammed with other stuff (like the challenge the desktop (which is 100% custom using no 3rd party controls) not outlook) as I want to get a complete challenge up as well... anyone can post any kind of code / tutorial to the website they just have to create a user account and if a code/tutorial category isn't their I will add it etc. It is just a free resource for programming related stuff I bought the domain a while back and just never did anything with it... and to be honest it is more for me than anything so if people don't contribute to the forums, code and tutorials it really doesn't bother me to much as it is going to be nice to just have functions, code, etc. all in one place that I can just copy and paste from instead of going back inside another project to figure out what i did and why etc. so long winded answer but yes it is new (and it is only me the other users are just friends of mine that logged in to make sure it was all hooked up and working (database))...

On a side note (and not to start a argument) I haven't used Telerik's "new" promethous schedule so I don't know what it can or can't do and I am not sure what limitations you are running into as I haven't come across any limitations in the webschedule it is actualy (in my opinion) one of the easier controls to work with...

On the Challenge:
Nothing is really hooked up at the moment (other than some database stuff) as the "Thread" challenge was just to mimic outlook not to make e-mail etc. and all that stuff work... Just the basic stuff like panes, alert message etc. using only infragistics and asp.net controls... I am however turning it into a full blown "working" tutorial complete with smtp etc.

Noted on the feature stuff I will start doing that... thats for the tip

I don't want to get in your fight of who did what to who and how terrible they are.  Technology changes, you better get used to it, and Infragistics has been around for a lot of those changes.  If you think the Infragistics controls are worse than Telerik then use Telerik.  But they are going to have changes and have to keep up with Microsoft and some of those changes will break your code and then who will you cry to?  If they have bugs that frustrate you is it going to be your mission to warn the rest of us about Telerik? 

If you are writing bug free programs that never breaks or dissapoints your users you are the master.  I have programs that have been running for 10 or more years and there are bugs in them.  Some we can live with, some I fix, some have not been discovered yet.  I am not so full of myself to think I am the only programmer who writes bug free software or that I won't have dissapointed users.  My users don't tell me how great one of the features of my system works they tell me it would be so much better if it just did this one thing .....   I think this is the nature of software development, we are looking for it to do just one more thing better than it did before.

I was amused for a while but now I am tired of your rant.

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!

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