Hello VWG community members,
I take the opportunity that third party controls is being discussed here in the forum to open a new thread and to address you.
We are aware to the fact that one of the major concerns, you VWG community have, is the choice of VWG native controls offered 'out of the box'.
VWG 6.4 will offer a giant step forward with simplifying custom controls programming and will also provide new tutorials and documentations in order to make it very clear and easy to customize an existing or creating new user control.
Having said that, we also realize that the majority of you do not want to spend recourses on writing new controls and would rather prefer the productivity of using third party controls 'out of the box'.
We are also aware to the compromises that go with wrapping current third party vendors components. The following post reflects it well enough:
Youritstaff wrote in a post on this forum on 11/19/2009 7:13 PM:
"I ended up down the Visual WebGui path over a year ago because of it's better performance over the Infragistics controls. It's pages used a lot less bandwidth and the web server performance was better as advertised. I traded some grid features for performance. If I wrap Infragistics UltraWebGrid in a VWG control, how will the performance be? Will the VWG app engine make it lite and quick like the other native WebGUI controls? Basically, will I get the best of both worlds? Thanks"
As we all know and experienced with other vendor's components, VWG current third party wrapper does not support the controls natively. The result is that a third party control runs as if it runs natively atop ASP.NET, which unfortunately doesn’t match VWG enhanced performance.
We do realize that one of the major reasons to choose VWG is performance and therefore we are starting discussions with couple of component vendors, to partner with to offer you VWG community, VWG natively running third party controls.
That will enable you a choice of third party controls with VWG enhanced performance and security.
As we had already started these discussions we do want your opinion on the following issues:
- How important for you is the performance issues with the wrapped controls?
- What kind of controls you miss, taking into consideration the 'out of the box' controls that VWG already offers?
- What other wishes you might have concerning this issue?
Please take the time and get involved by replying to this post. As always we want the community's feedbacks to lead us with our decision making and offering.
Thanks for your attention, and thanks in advance for your comments.
Navot Peled