Gday all

Can anyone recommend a good third-party component that works well with LLBLGen Pro generated code ?

We're dabbling with Infragistics product at the moment but if anyone knows of a better grid component we'd love to hear about it. In particular we're interested to find out about anything that supports Excel-style "drag and fill".

Many thanks !

Eric

Hi Eric,

Although there are some issues, I am still a fan of Infragistics controls in combination with LLBLGen Pro (in winforms scenario's). I am currently working with Infragistics version 2005 / 3 in an Adapter scenario.

The way to work is just to slap an EntityCollection component on your form and bind the UltraGrid to it. All properties are recognized, even custom ones that you add to the Entity classes yourself.

Related EntityCollections are shown as childbands. Mind you that this only goes one level deep at the moment, due to Design Time binding issues.

The ListObject property of an UltraGridRow provides easy access to the underlying EntityCollection.

At runtime you can point the grid's datasource to a different EntityCollection and call DataBind(). All column settings are retained.

Binding to TypedViews and TypedList is just about as easy.

Because I have been using Infragistics for the past few years it is possible that I'm a little blind for other vendors but I still think Infragistics NetAdvantage gives alot of bang for your buck. For the record, I don't get any commission for promoting Infragistics

I am not sure about the Excel style drag/drop you talk about. I do know there is support for drag/drop through the whole NetAdvantage Winforms framework.

Just my free advice, be sure to decide based on your own judgement.

Kind regards, Ries

They all should work fine, although I would avoid XCeed's stuff.

Otis wrote:

They all should work fine, although I would avoid XCeed's stuff.

hmmm.. why is that Frans.. I was actually considering them for a friend specially after what they are showing everyone how Ms has choosen their grid and menu controls for their upcoming small business accounting software...

For a grid recommendation, I have no problem with DevExpress and it does deliver well with LLBL althought I would like to find a lighter (single dll) control (like that from 9Rays)

The XCeed grid turned out to be the buggiest with classes instead of dataset binding. Don't know how their current state is though.