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Third party UI components: do you use them?

Survey period: 9 Oct 2017 to 16 Oct 2017

UI controls range from standard system controls to advanced commercial UI frameworks. Where on this spectrum do you typically sit?

OptionVotes% 
We use commercial third party UI components34339.02
We use free and/or open-source UI components45551.76
We use UI components we build ourselves44650.74
We use the components offered by our IDE (eg Visual Studio, Android studio)51858.93
We use the UI components available as standard on our platform (eg Windows Common Controls, Standard HTML controls etc)41747.44
I don't write applications that have UI controls.586.60
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%



 
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Nathan Minier10-Oct-17 6:18
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan8-Oct-17 18:49
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Daniel Pfeffer8-Oct-17 21:41
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan8-Oct-17 21:51
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Eddy Vluggen9-Oct-17 13:07
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:
They save the money, and make more sense as compared to the built binaries.
With the built binaries being the common controls that everyone recognizes; what money do they save? Show me a spec that says it needs a WinForms DevExpress button instead of a normal button Smile | :)

OTOH, you're spending money on learning a new GUI-set that will be scrapped completely when the new library/version comes out. You got to love those dependencies Shucks | :-\
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