Hi there,

I am wondering if you can recommend controls for winform-development using VS2010/VB.Net and strataframe. I am looking for

1. A controls which handles resizing. I tried one (Resize by Larcom and young) but it did not work with strataframe forms. It should be able to do real resizing and not just anchoring and docking. It should not work in design mode but only when running and be able to exclude controls (maybe by using a tag-description). And it should just be dropped on my baseform and ready to run.

2. The appearance of the Datagridview is not satisfying me at all. When I use a DGV on an form and dimension it to display for example 10 rows but the underlying BO has less records it does not display "empty lines" like am used to from my VFP-Grids but an ugly dark background which irritates not only me but my customer to. I was looking for some hints to change this behavoiur but found all tips to complicated. So I was thinking about using the Strataframe Listview, but in some of my grids I need editing capabilites (not adding) and to get some constistency in my user-interface I want to use only one control.

Can anybody of you give me some recommendations what to do or what to use?

Thanks in Advance

Thomas

Yeah, I was(am) not happy that ComponentOne forces you to buy not only the cow, but the entire farm....I only needed like two controls...actually, just one, the spell checker. Sigh.



You might also search the forum for "Infragistics" and "devexpress" to see what other have said. Of course pay attention to the date, as things can change a lot in a couple of years. There have been other specific control suggestions too, like to handle pdf, reporting, scanning, to handle network sockets, etc.