I made a mistake making that statement. Just ckecked their site, and they do have one package that includes both Windows and ASP. Sorry!

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Hi Charles;



I've been a customer of DevExpress for many years (from Delphi days). One thing I admit, their products are very good and support is very good (but SF support is best).

You can get the entire .Net package for Windows and web as one package, including full reports.



However, with Infragistics (IG), you have to buy the .Net Advantage and ASP Advantage and Active Reports. That can get expensive.



But Ivan brought up a good point, that SF team uses IG tools and I also have faith in what SF team choses for their work.

So, I need to talk to SF team more about this when I get to TX for class to make a decision!

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Hi Charles.

I have evaluated both Infragistics and DevXpress. On the components, I've just commited to Infragistics, and bought their Advantage .NET package. I'm still using the trial from DevXpress though, as I haven't decided about a Report Engine yet, so I'm using their XtraReports. There's the ActiveReports too in this matter, and I hope to come to a final decision soon.

Following your philosofy in a way, I tend to stick to what the SF guys decide to use themselves, I've always got the best advices from them.

Abraços.

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