I would like to hear from developers who have tested the templates for the third party controls (DevExpress, Infragisitics and Janus). As you can undestand we cannot master all the inticacies of all the third party vendors. We are counting on your help to guide us to improve the templates.

Thank you

I've done some base testing (gen and run) for infragistics 8.2 winform and so far so good. Will work over the holidays on it and let you know any issues (still new to code complete - some issue maybe usability, but I know I like to have virgin users, as they see the things with new eyes.

Having built an entire CSLA based App with DevExpress controls long before I found out about Code Complete and all of it's wonderfulness, here's my input.

1. Ribbon Forms - I'd love to see a DevExpress ribbon from version of the main form, data entry form, and search from with all of your nice tool bar items as ribbon items.

2. XtraLayout - Instead of the the table layout used on the data entry and search controls, use the DevExpress XtraLayout control which allows the end user to customize the layout of the control to their liking and supports all of DevExpresses nice skinning features.

3. NavBar - I'd also love to have the option of having a navbar with all the Edit / Search buttons instead of a tree view. If all items were generated in a DevExpress NavBar (which mimics the Outlook NavBar) the developer could very easily customize it by adding groups to logically devide the items after application generation.

4. Default Look and Feel - some of the controls (like GridControl for child collections on edit forms) have the DefaultLookAndFeel set to the Blue skin and some controls have Use Windows Theme set to true. I would suggest leaving these properties alone. The default is for them to inherit the default look and feel which allow the developer to add set a DefaultLookAndFeel on application start up or via an end user selection and all controls will then reflect that setting.

I'd be happy to eloborate on these further if you need more input.

Keep up the great work! Code Complete is absolutely awesome and I can't wait for the full release of 3.5.

-Jeff French

Hi,
I must explain that I am not a developer ( i know visual studio debugging but not the c# language deeply ) but a curious CIO that likes to try tools for future use.
Have said that and because we use Infragistics controls I discovered a bug (?) that happens on this "event".

If I use dotnet controls when I click on search ( magnifier in english ?? ) the event does not change THIS.ACTIVECONTROL and records are shown as I expect. If I use Infragistics when I do the same thing the THIS.ACTIVECONTROL changes to "treeview", or something, and condition xxxxxxxxxxx is not satified and goes directly to BREAK ( records are not shown );

private void MainToolbar_ItemClicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)

{
string MethodName = "MainToolbar_ItemClicked";
try
{
switch (e.ClickedItem.Name)
{
case "SearchButton":
if (this.ActiveControl is PLWinSearchControl) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
{
PLWinSearchControl activeControl = (PLWinSearchControl)this.ActiveControl;
activeControl.Search();
activeControl.Activate();
activeControl.UpdateRecordNumberLabel(this.MainToolbar);
}
break;


thanks for any help
novreis