3rd-party-controls

How do you get a co-worker to use 3rd party code?

There is a guy I work with who has been tasked with getting a grid hooked up to a database. There has been some problem with the performance of the built-in grid and we are looking for alternative solutions. I have suggested (and my manager has backed me up) that we try testing 3rd party grids such as Infragistics, XCeed, Telerik, or a...

Best 3rd Party ASP.Net Grid Control

One of the project teams in my company is using Infragistics ASP.Net Grid control. I've been brought in to troubleshoot performance issues. What I found is: The Infragistics ASP.Net Grid control generates insane amount of viewstate. Disabling viewstate renders the control near unusable. I'm thinking of proposing that they go ahead an...

Is it possible to have multiple header rows in a virtual string tree?

I have a need for multiple fixed rows for the header of a virtual string view. Something that looks like the effect you get if you set a StringGrid's FixedRows property to a value greater than 1. Is there a way to achieve this? Some searching on the Soft-Gems website and forums led me to a couple of mentions of an AdvancedHeaderDraw meth...

Is it possible to select multiple columns in Virtual Treeview?

I need to add functionality to a copy a rectangular selection of nodes and columns, but I can't find any way to actually select multiple columns in Virtual Treeview (beside toFullRowSelect). Am I just missing something? and if not, is there a descendant out there with grid-like multicolumn select support? ...

.NET - 3rd Party Grid Control - AutoFill

Anybody know of a good 3rd Party grid control that supports AutoFill (like Excel does). Also a good export to Excel and import (paste) from Excel would be handy also. I'm mainly interested in a WinForms grid that can do this, but would also be curious if there is a Silverlight grid or ActiveX grid with AutoFill capabilities. ...

Creating a combo box for the iPhone

Since there is no pre-existing component for creating a combobox (or select box) as seen on webpages through Safari, can someone provide an example or pre-existing 3rd party component of creating one? ...

3rd Party WinForm .NET Grid Controls

Anybody have any experience with 3rd Party WinForm .NET grid controls? Before I spend the afternoon downloading and trying out several of the grids and/or control packs, anybody have opinions on vendors? functionality? etc. Some of the ones I'll be looking at are: XCeed Grid Telerik Grid - Part of RadControls for WinForms ...

Anyone used Bullseye for .NET? Share your experiences.

I'd like to hear others' experiences with this component. Website:Bullseye for .NET ...

GenoTechs GTSizer component

Does anyone know of a 3rd party component that works like GTSizer? It appears that GenoTechs no longer exists. We have a number of forms in our Delphi/Oracle enterprise application that have the GTSizer component. We have Delphi 2009 to install but GTSizer is not compatible, so we are holding off for now. Any and all suggestions are welc...

C# Windows Application Developer - 3rd Party Tools

Scenario I have recently graduated from university with a degree in Computer Science. My degree mainly focused on C#. I want to learn more and get better at what I do. I notice a lot of companies always want their developers to know and use 3rd party tools. Question If I was developing C# Windows Forms applications, what 3rd party too...

export to excel file from asp.net

I have an ASP.NET 3.5 site that needs to export data to a pre-formatted Excel sheet. I am not allowed to modify the excel sheet in any way, just drop data into specific cells. My question is, What is the simplest way to do this from an ASP.NET site. The user will always have Excel on their machine. Is a 3rd party control my best option...

Exposing 3rd-party controls to the UI Automation framework.

I am using 3rd-party controls in my project. There are quite a few controls, like grid, whose cells are not accessible using UI Automation. I was wondering how can I go about making them accessible? ...

Suggestions for a 3rd party .net datagrid control - ideally free?

I've been looking for a databound control to show some data to the user, who needs to be able to filter and group the output. I've looked at the documentation for the standard DataGridView control, but it doesn't seem to have the drag-and-drop grouping/filtering that I've seen in many apps. For an example, if anyone uses Toad to do SQL ...

Best 3rd Party WPF Datagrid

We need a datagrid for financial applications to replace existing winforms datagrids. We tested a number of WPF grids over a year ago, but at the time they weren't up to standards of their winforms counterparts. What we found is that whilst their demos showed they had most of the features we'd need, after say a couple of weeks usage w...

WinForms XML editor control

Does anyone know of a good XML editor library/control to use in a WinForms project? ...

Anyone used "DotNetBar for WPF" by DevComponents?

Has anyone had any experience of using the controls in the "DotNetBar for WPF" component suite by DevComponents? Good control suite? Good company? What is their support like? ...

MVC Beginner Question

Hi All, Im just starting to make my first ever asp MVC website. Im just wanting advice on 3rd party controls that I could utilize to make the job a bit easier. The graphics designer has done all work in photoshop (logos, layout prototypes etc) which i will have to translate to the webpage. While its not a graphics intense website there...

Control property is accepted by the compiler, causes a runtime "doesn't exist" error in UserControl - but works fine at runtime!

I'm using the LeadTools Multimedia video capture control, which appears as type AxltmmCaptureCtrl. In my code, I have the following line: AxltmmCaptureCtrl1.VideoWindowSizeMode = LTMMLib.ltmmSizeMode.ltmmFit; That compiles just fine, with no complaints or even warnings from the compiler. But when I use the thing at runtime, I get th...

launch 3rd party application from native iPhone apps

hi friends, i have to do one application that application should be launch from the iPhone native applications like calendar, contacts and mail box etc... is it possible to launch 3rd party application from the native app, whether apple allows the developer to do this. Thanks in advance... ...