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Disclaimer: I am not and have never been affiliated with any company that provides control suites. The following is just my personal experience.
I have used DevExpress Winforms exclusively for several years. I switched from a very bad experience with Component One and Syncfusion. DevExpress Winforms suite is very nice. Controls are consistent - that is, the way their properties are laid out and their property names. Controls are integrated. For example, you can put a DX combo box on the form surface, or you can put it in a DX grid. Same combo box control. Controls are very customizable. By this I mean that if you want to set a specific caption or custom total for group rows while grouping a grid by a column value, go ahead and do it. Top notch customer support. Very little waiting for support. I had an excellent experience. But please note that I have only used their WinForms controls -- not web, wpf, orm, etc. But I expect these other sets of controls would be equally good.
On the negative side, and these are probably true of most control suites.... It is pricey. The files you have to include with your project bulk it up quite a bit. The controls feel "heavy" sometimes, like the computer has to downshift in order to process the form. But greater functionality usually involves more computing needs and larger files to deploy. Hope this helps with your decision.
Mike
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Thanks Mike, much appreciated! I'm a bit intimidated by the amount of customization options you have there but I haven't encountered any strange misbehaviour/doesnt-compile/crashes so far in contrast to what I'm hearing about other suites so I think I'll go for it.
Sebastian
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What's the catch? Why would they give away their complete library? What are the legal restrictions regarding deployment of finished applications?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The catch is that it's only free for teams of 5 or less. You can distribute applications you write with this.
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I am most definitely a team of 5 or less...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There is one more thing - Annual gross revenue should be below $1 million USD.
Ranjan.D
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Ranjan.D wrote: revenue should be below $1 million USD
Darn it! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Look forward to an article Pete. Downloaded and looked around and it's a huge library, kind of intimidating. Tried a simple app this morning and there were a few problems building so would really help if someone that knew the lib could guide us mere mortals though it. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I have used Syncfusion products in the past. I found there documentation to be sorely lacking and as a result had many problems with their components even with many calls to their tech-support6 people.
I just took a look at the documentation for their WPF components and it states that they are only compatible with up to Visual Studio 2010. I doubt this is correct bit it again demonstrates my point...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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What about runtime licensing? If I build using these tools, can I distribute the exe's?
Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.
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The page says you can distribute application, sell them or whatever you want.
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OK I read that they could not provide run-time licensing. Wasn't real sure what that meant.
Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.
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That looked OK until I got to the bottom.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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if we put our heads together we'll get to the bottom of this... 
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Ah, I think I see your mistake. Try opening it in PhotoShop instead.
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PhotoShop says, "you don't want to that; here's a picture of a kitten." 
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Bomb Threat against two planes at Atlanta Airport[^]
Will this ever end? Wait... Don't answer that. (No it won't)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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OMG!!!
Some ter'r'rist said a bomb was on a plane!
There wasn't a bomb and it was obviously a perverse joke by some middle-class white kid who was bored on a Saturday night -- but TER'R'RIST!!! AAARRGHHH!!!
We have to make laws that says we have to provide a blood sample and full transcription to our saviours in the security forces every time we sent a tweet or an e-mail!!!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you carry a bomb onto an aircraft you will be much safer, as the chance of their being two bombs on the same aircraft is infinitessimal
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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i'm reading the book. written in 1983! highly recommended. gets very interesting after Part I. i think it would be of special interest to OOPers (work on set theory and the idea of classes and types (not necessarily as OOP because it didn't really exist, but as concepts/approaches to problems such as godel's)) and crypto-people.
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Didn't read that one, but I read this one:
The Annotated Turing[^]
It was pretty good, but it's basically only about the Turing Machine, i.a. the creation of a theoretical computer and its potential and limitation.
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I was going to post that. Thanks for saving me the trouble. 
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I was going to say Ill wait for the movie, but that has already been made, by a Norwegian director. So you cant really not know it here were I'm at, as it was everywhere, in the news, papers, TV etc.
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