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.

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MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.StrataCollapsableContainer' is obsolete: 'The StrataCollapsableContainer is a beta control and not intended for production purposes.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MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.StrataListView' is obsolete: 'The StrataCollapsableContainer is a beta control and not intended for production purposes.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

Will future releases of the StrataListView support SF Databinding?

Keith Chisarik

They will...but most likely not the next immediate release. I want the enhancements on the control to "settle in" before we add in the data populating and binding like the original SF ListView so that we don't miss anything. It will be more robust since there are other features that this list supports that never existing in the other. So most likely, update after next.

Trent, I believe that adding the databinding support will encourage more SF developers to start using and testing these controls right away, myself included. I know that for experience SF developers it should not be too difficult to use them as is, but then you will not get the benefit of many of us testing the beta controls. In my case I use the current ListView in all my projects and in some forms I even have 4 listviews, configuring them takes take with the current type editor, now imaging having to do all that via code will take more time, so I vote for having the type editors as soon as possible in order to test what is already done.

Edhy Rijo