I have never put much thought into the "beta" tag on stuff you guys release because you have always pretty much supported beta releases, and in many cases encouraged them. I have also never seen these warning before, of which I now have a few dozen in that pesky 'warnings' tab a rarely check.

Should I use these controls? or not. I see the warning, the English is very plain but .... removing them will be a little bit of a chore so given the past support, I figured I would ask.

BEGIN SCARY MESSAGES ********************************************** END SCARY MESSAGES

MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.StrataCollapsableContainer' is obsolete: 'The StrataCollapsableContainer is a beta control and not intended for production purposes.  This control has been made available for technical preview purposes only and is not a supported control.  Use at your own risk.

MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.StrataListView' is obsolete: 'The StrataCollapsableContainer is a beta control and not intended for production purposes.  This control has been made available for technical preview purposes only and is not a supported control.  Use at your own risk.

Keith Chisarik

You always have a nice way of putting things!



Use them. I have already removed the tags for the next update because I was tired of looking at them and as you mentioned, we will support them anyway. Trust me, we HAVE to support them. We are using them extensively and have had them released into the field for a while.



Just FYI, there are still new features being added, but this should not affect you. For example, the StrataListView now supports radio buttons and has the ability the set the opacity of the highlighted row allowing you to effectively hide any selection. This came in really handy the other day for us when needing to choose a single list item...so, it made it into the framework.



So in short, forget the "SCARY" message and go for it.