Just wondering if anyone has worked with integrating Infragistics and Dnn. We are working on a new project which is going to be based on these 2 products plus Pro. Mainly looking for this kind of scenario: Create a new module for Dnn. Create a new UserControl in which will be placed Tabs from Infragistics tabs. Upon clicking on each tab a different UserControl will be loaded into the tab in the module. The products are currently being reviewed. Just wanted to know if anyone has used them like this. Any input will be really appreciated. Thanks.

I don't think DNN will make a difference, it will be the same as when you use the controls in a normal webapp I think. Infragistics webcontrols are feature-rich, but in my experience produce a lot of HTML. This means that the pages are very heavy sometimes. On intranets you won't notice that much, but over the net it's cumbersome.

We had two issues when using Infragistic's webgrid.

First, it generated lots of html to keep track of each value in the grid. This was in addition to the html table information. We did get around some of this by setting some properties (I don't remember which ones).

Second, it does not display well in anything but ie 5.5 and above. If you keep your grid relativly simple it will display ok, but any complexity and it's gonna look funny.

Good Luck

Fishy

Thanks for the input. Thanks.

Ahhhh, be warry of infragistics tabs. With the tabs you have 2 choices, load the controls at runtime into the tab pane, or at design time. If load the the tabs design time, youll probably take up smoking waiting for page loads and pumping all the data back into view state. If you choose to load the tab with the control at runtime, youll be in postback/viewstate hell which is another set of challenges entirely.

Just some things that I have run across.

Hi Devidog, Have you tried not using the ViewState and see how it performs? If so please let me know your experience. Thanks.

netLearner wrote:

Hi Devidog, Have you tried not using the ViewState and see how it performs? If so please let me know your experience. Thanks.

NetAdvantage 2004 v3 greatly reduced the amount of viewstate stored in each page. We use the webgrid and LLBLGen with great success in DNN. If you look on the asp.net forums, I posted a couple of functions that fix the javascript location properties for many of the Infragistics controls if you're planning on including the scripts with your PA.

Thanks Alex.

alexdresko wrote:

If you look on the asp.net forums, I posted a couple of functions that fix the javascript location properties for many of the Infragistics controls if you're planning on including the scripts with your PA.

Do you remember which forums and maybe the threads?

Devildog74 wrote:

alexdresko wrote:

If you look on the asp.net forums, I posted a couple of functions that fix the javascript location properties for many of the Infragistics controls if you're planning on including the scripts with your PA.

Do you remember which forums and maybe the threads?

http://asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=803134

Thanks a ton.

Devildog74 wrote:

Thanks a ton.

Would have replied sooner if I had noticed the thread changed. I'm just glad I could help someone around here!