Unfortunately, I don't know the Telerik controls enough to say anything about them, so if someone has experience with both, especially with switching from DX to Telerik that would surely be a very interesting information. The later was also the primary reason for buying the DX components. I especially like that you can use your former experience with the WinForm controls (with limitations, of course). Most negative things that bugged me were fixed with version 10.2, so the controls are quite usable now. So, what would I do if I had to do the same decision again? I would very likely use DevExpress again. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, those were the things that immediately came to my mind. The support team is as helpful as always, though. While this is probably just my personal impression, I was almost always able to find an answer to a certain problem I had with the WinForms controls on the DX website, I'm not that succesful with the WPF controls. The documentation and the support center for the WPF controls feels less complete than the WinForms documentation. The good thing is that most of these problems are solved with 10.2. There were some quickfixes neccessary to get the controls running the way we intended to use them. Some parts made the impression that they were done quickly. If you are looking for additional controls from the WinForms package than the ones listed, it is a good idea to check if they exist for the DX WPF controls first. While the later three are available with version 10.2, TreeLists still aren't there. The DevExpress WPF controls at that time had version number 10.1, and we were disappointed that some controls were missing completely (for example TreeList, Schedulers, Passwordbox or the very useful LookUpEdit). We expected the DevExpress WPF controls to provide the same control coverage as the WinForm controls did.
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We are still using mostly Windows XP, the themes apply to this as well, which is exceptional useful for us. They apply to pure WPF controls, too, so the whole application looks consistent. If your users are used to them, the transition is very smooth.Īpplying one of the provided themes is very simple and you get a good looking solution without much annoyance. The controls, especially the grids, are useable as the WinForms controls. This is a huge plus, because it took us quite some time to get used to them while using the WinForm controls.
There are some differences, but you get used to them quickly. You can use the controls in a very similiar way you are used to. For our new application, created new from scratch, we decided to use WPF (without PRISM) and we were especially in need of some grids, so we used DevExpress WPF Controls. We were using WinForms, the Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and DevExpress WinForms. We had to make a quite similiar decision a few months ago. In other words, I would like to know if Telerik's controls have any additional value? Still, I want to check if there is any better option on the market. I have been using Winforms Devxpress for a while and I was quite satisfied. Localization support in order to localize data grid actions for instance. In a long term, I would also like to use their: Layout manager that is similar to the one that is used VS 2010 Good data grid, which supports sorting, filtering, grouping,Ĭombobox that supports filtering and auto-complete.
Whenever possible, I will try to follow MVVM pattern(it would be nice if the selected controls were designed to adopt it easily).
To put it in a nutshell: I am building a classic LOB desktop application. I would like to hear your opinion about the two control providers.
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