Yes I agree, it's not enjoyable. It's just so much cleaner and enjoyable working with raw html and javascript. Sometime's it's a great idea to leverage such controls when the control itself would be a huge task create, eg a reporting engine or a rich text editor. But for some data in a webapp I would recommend plain old mvc, html and javascript.
*Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Director P. 0404 865 350 E. [email protected] W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland <http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used ComponentOne and Infragistics and some other smaller widget > kits > and I have a warning: > > All of these big vendors produce highly over-featured over-complex controls > with large and dense documentation that wastes a lot of time unless you > have > enough staff to assign someone to become a guru and study and experiment. > All of the controls will work out of the box in vanilla mode, but once you > start to push them hard your learning curve will steepen and you'll be > bogged down in quirks. The dependencies on licence files, versions and > compatibility might really complicate your release procedures. > > Once you get into these kits you might as well consider yourself married to > them. > > Greg > >
