thank you, thank you...

Actualy believe it or not the combox, alert window and sliding panes are the easy part the actual hardest part of the entire thing (well not hard) is getting the styling on the second "toolbar" menu to work right the rest of that stuff is actually default control with appstyling and even the second menu is using appstyling (although i modified the css for background etc.)...

Combox is a piece o cake have dont that many otimes before, sliding panes (same thing), and the alert window I think you are going to be "very" supprised on how I pull that one off :)

Infragistics is actually well aware of what I can do with their controls and visualstudiotutorials.com is the result of the shared knowledge and in their defense they think the same way as you and I about tutorials, video tutorials, code snippets etc. and that is what IG is a big part of that site because these types of tutorials will be useful for everyone... The 30 day challenge however is mostly because I got really tired of talking with ceo's, owners etc. who think their web/windows software which took 3-9 programmers 12-16 months to make would take anyone else years to make as it is so unique and complex etc. blah blah blah... I recently ran into this again and the windows application that they made was (not to be mean) horrific to say the least... and on the phone was 2 programmers, the cto, and the ceo and not only did we get into the C# vs. VB.NET debate (which is a pointless debate in .NET) but these programmers had big enough egos to tell me that (a) it couldn't be done in vb.net (because hardcore programmers use c#) and (b) their custom controls (a grid and calendar whooopeee) were like nothing on the market... My response... First of all hardcore programmers dont use bastardized C they use C++ second of all have a nice day... Needless to say I was so upset by this that I thought about it for weeks and weeks (i know i am like a dog with a chew toy) then one day it dawned on me hey why don't I just do that let people select any web or windows based application and just reverse engineer it in 30 days just to prove a point hence the challenge...

Whoopssss sorry about that as you can tell I am still a little bent hehehehe

Anyhoot after I win this little challenge hehehhee, I am going to go ahead and add calendars, tasks, contacts etc. (and) I am just going to go ahead and right a little POP3 "fetching" server that will pop accounts listed in the database and go ahead and add smtp to it as well not a big deal and might as well make it a full application before you ask I am not going to add clamAV or SpamAss because this will "pull" from a mail server so "in theory" your mail server should be setup with AV and some kind of spam protection...

Geez what am I going to do with the other 23 days hmmmm

Crumbs, your outlook app is looking promising already :( . Thats pretty impressive what you have done in such a small space of time. Just got the humble pie in today. Gonna store it in the fridge, now im just browsing through ebay looking for some knee pads.

This is going to be quite close, but I have a feeling you will stumble on the combobox search facility, alert window and sliding panes.

Infragistics team bow your heads in shame. Just look at what was achieved by one of your customers in less than 5 hours WITH YOUR CONTROLS. The guy is also going to provide a walkthrough on how he achieved this (and source code). This is increadibly valuable, especially for those who find your documentation hard to follow and would really like a good step by step implementation guide. I for one am impressed and think that this is the type of stuff your organisation should be churning out for its customers. His guide on how he implemented this inteface with your controls is exactly the type of content that I want to see on your community site.

Nice one Chris

@remissss

The thing I have learned over the years is everyone has their own preference when it comes to programming from controls to languages for me the Infragistics controls are extremly easy to use even the styling and layout etc. where telerik and other controls I find them to be pretty much the way you feel about IG in the end it really doesn't matter what controls you use but rather what controls are best for you...