Very new to both Strataframe and .NET ( decided from my VFP experience that picking a great framework was the key to getting productive in a new environment quickly - I am delighted that I appear to have done that by choosing Strataframe ! )



I'm a big believer in making money off the brilliance and hard work of others.



I have no doubt that once I get reasonably proficient in SF I am going to be looking for more libraries of guru gizmos that are going to make me look good to my clients.



Is there any consensus about the best third party libraries for a SF developer ( based on Microfour support, value, overall features etc )



Front runners seem to be DevExpress and Infragistics. I've been watching some of the videos on the DevExpress site ( incredible plummy Brit doing the narration ) and enjoying that very much.



I understand there are evaluation versions of both of these available but my knowledge of SF and .NET is not currently up to doing them justice.



Would very much like to hear opinions of SF developers using those libraries so I can be looking ahead as I plan my first serious client work.



TIA



Charles

I have a related, but slightly more focused question about components. I find myself needing to provide my users with a control that allows formatting of text (bold, italic, lists, etc.). Now, if the only place they used the this information was within the app, I'd just use the RTF textbox. However, this is not the case. The text needs to shown in a web based reporting tool. Soooooo....



I wondering if any of you have any experience with any WinForm HTML editors? Or with using an RTF textbox to edit HTML. I'll need to store the formatted text as HTML. There are a lot that wrap IE, but I'm concerned about performance, memory issues and security. Apose has one that isn't dependent on IE but it can't do much yet. Any of you have any experience with HTML Editors in WinForms?



Thanks!