What 3rd Party Controls are .Net Developers using

Question

I am re-evaluating my 3rd party controls. I currently use the Infragistics tools suite for ASP.Net and WinForms. What controls do you use and would you recommend them?

Answer 1

Only used Infragistics' and Janus controls.

Infragistics is ok but not good.

I wish I wont ever have to use Janus again, one of the worst and not intuitive APIs. And I can crash the provided sample with a few clicks...

Answer 2

We chose Syncfusion mainly because of it's almost complete handling of RightToLeft - they still have some bugs here and there, but they are very attentive to questions, bugs and feature requests.

Answer 3

I have used Telerik, Syncfusion and Infragistics third party controls and I would rate them in that order.

Telerik controls are an order of magnitude more pleasant to work with than Infragistics.

My $0.02.

Answer 4

I could recommend Telerik for ASP.NET. They are very nice but would only use them for an Intranet application as they are mostly powerful but heavy. For WinForms DevComponents have a brilliant set of components.

Answer 5

from what I seen the intersoft grids seem to be quite slow

Answer 6

Telerik is fairly prolific and easy to use on the asp.net side. Although you will find yourself hacking some functionality in and out of them and then having a code change everytime an update breaks your hacks.. regardless they are still easier than re-inventing the wheel.