Hello,

 Thanks for the feedback.

There is a lot going on behind the scenese of AppStylist. When you open a library, it actually makes a backup in your "My Documents\Infragistics" folder.  This is done, so that we always have a copy that we can revert back to if you accidentally delete something. Saving in memory wasn't an option, so we use a backup directory. However, i agree that there is room for improvment there.

I have a few tips that should hopefully make working with the tool a little easier.

If you're only maintaining 1 StyleSet (i.e. Applietini, OfficeBlue, etc) at any given time, create a Library (.wsl) that only contains it. That way, when you open up the library, it will only need to load the specific styleset that you plan on working with.

Also, if you're creating a styleset, and know that you'll only need certain controls, you can limit the StyleSet to those controls. To do so, Click the "Manage StyleSets" button located in the TopLeft area of the Tool.  Please follow the link below to see a screenshot:

http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.1/CLR2.0/html/WebAppStylist_Style_Explorer.html

 In this dialog, you can Add and Remove Stylesets, and also, remove controls from your stylesets. Below is a screenshot of the dialog:

http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.1/CLR2.0/html/WebAppStylist_StyleSet_Manager_Dialog_Box.html

You can uncheck any controls that you don't want, and then click the "OK" button. Note: all stylesheets and control images assoicated with the controls you have chosen to remove, will be removed from the styleset.

As for your 3rd comment, when you modify a style, for example lets say the background-color of a TreeNode, only the tree's css file should be reloaded, not all the controls. In fact, the canvs itself shouldn't even reload, as it just uses some javascript to cause the css file to refresh.

Only when  you hit the Refresh button on the top, or modify any shared styles, will all the canvases be reloaded.

Note, if you're using the TextEditor in the PropertiesPanel: You can hit the F5 key or press the Update button to update your changes.

http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.1/CLR2.0/html/WebAppStylist_Text_Editor.html

I hope this information helps improve your experience with the tool.

Thanks,

-SteveZ

We like app styling. We are tempted use OfficeBlue. Once we put it on demo/uat we realize that overall performance gone slow. Please suggest any solution for this.

Thanks & Regards,

Srinivasa Reddy

I have figured a partial work around on XP Pro, Opening all permissions to the AppStylist does reduce some of the check time and for some reason does reduce the Jitting as well .  It's still much slower then makes for easy usage as indicated in my previous post.