> Try
http://www.devexpress.com they have great components at good prices
and
the support is second to none.
BTW, I have *no* commercial interest in the company ;-)
Doh! DevExpress is **horrible**! I should have known they were horrible
when no one would return my calls to purchase their XtraTreeList component.
They eventually just gave it to me for free because of all of the hassles I
had with their sales department. When I finally got my hands on that
control, it was absolutely the worst piece of crash-prone garbage I had
*EVER* used. I've been developing and using 3rd party components for many
years and have NEVER had such a bad experience with a component/vendor as I
did with DevExpress. Maybe their other components are better, but I
personally will avoid DevExpress like the plague. The only good thing that I
can say about them is that they were nice enough give me the component for
free... but from *my* perspective, the experience was not free since I spent
many days with tech support trying to resolve bugs in their products. Then
they'd try to patch the bug for me and they'd end up creating two or three
MORE bugs in the process... argh! As you can see, you hit a raw nerve with
me when you mentioned DevExpress... it just brought back bad memories. No
hard feelings. My anger isn't focused on you. I don't mean to jump on you
when you were nice enough to make a recommendation! The reading the name
DevExpress makes me see red. :)
For what it's worth I've had mostly positive experiences with other
component vendors. ComponentOne, Xceed, SoftwareFX, SyncFusion [with the
exception of their docking component], and many others... Unfortunately,
none of the vendors on my "good" list make a viable docking component. I
found a company called Actipro that makes a docking component. I'm playing
with their trial version right now.
Thanks anyway for your input!
David