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Integrating 3rd Party Programs

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Category: DevForce
Forum Name: DevForce 2009
Forum Discription: For .NET 3.5
URL: http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1060
Printed Date: 12-May-2026 at 10:37pm


Topic: Integrating 3rd Party Programs
Posted By: warez_willy
Subject: Integrating 3rd Party Programs
Date Posted: 18-Jan-2009 at 4:28pm
I use Dotnetbar to create visually stunning winforms and now WPF pages.

I like the grid stuff that xceed are doing

I use Entity Framework (EF) to model my data

I use Ideablade EF to further do plumbing code with the EF

now. If anyone else uses this combination of flavours I'd be interested in how you tie them all together...

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learn. Give. Connect.


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Posted By: davidklitzke
Date Posted: 22-Jan-2009 at 7:21pm
DevForce EF supports the same Windows UI vendors (DevExpress and Infragostics) as does DevForce Classic.  In DevForce Classic, we experimmented with supporting the Exceed Grid for one prospect, but never completed or finalized the work.  Supporting all or most of the UI controls from a 3rd party vendor is a significant amount of work easily 1-2 man months of work (even if you have our source and guidance).
 
We support many of the UI controls from Microsoft, but certainly not all.  If you find a .NET control we don't support, you might get it to work with DevForce (Classic or EF) by writing your own custom DataBinder.


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