Re: NetAdvantage code samples?

Yeah.....I dropped a couple of questions on their newsgroup
servers.......but I'm not holding my breath.

It seems unethical to charge someone about $700 for the tools then another
$800-$1500 for training on how to use them. But, it looks like exactly what
they do. Had I known there were no code source examples included, I never
would have bought NetAdvantage to begin with.

Unfortunately, I believe that the lack actual code samples is meant to
"entice" people into spending more money to be trained in the use of the
tools. Why else would you not show simple examples (in code) of how each
tool is used?

It would seem to me that happy customers (ones that can buy and immediately
use) your toolset would be an asset and may send more customers your way.
But, if you don't provide code samples, and the customer has to pay out the
nose to learn how to use what s/he has just bought......well that's just
plain stupid - not to mention bad marketing.

Admittedly, I am new to .Net. I have resisted it for quite some time. It
is not as RAD as VB6 was. The toolsets given to use by 3rd party vendors
are not as user-friendly nor do they allow the customization of the UI as
much as the toolsets for VB6 did.

Microsoft has screwed us with this .Net crap. RAD is DEAD. Innovation in
software (which mostly came from school kids and part-time programmers) is
all but gone. (How many new and exciting .Net apps have you seen lately?)

Fewer college entrants are taking classes to become programmers year after
year. Soon, outsourcing will be the only option for many companies.

Why? IMHO, programming used to be fun. .Net is not. Part-time programmers
came up with new apps for fun and profit continually in VB. Not with .Net.

Anyway....I don't want this to become an "I hate .Net" rant. I do, but that
is beside the point.

I have never purchased a suite of tools for more than $100 that did not come
with source code examples that showed the components in use.

I am surprised that a company like Infragistics would pull such a scam on
it's customers.

Of course, the source code for examples of all of the controls could be here
somewhere. But, if it was, wouldn't there be a link to it in the
NetAdvantage start menu folders....or even in the Help files that accompany
the tools?

This is why people hate software and PCs. Perfectly brilliant people write
massively powerful things that nobody can use quickly and simply.

Great job guys!



"Stephany Young" <noone@localhost> wrote in message
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Have you made enquiries of Infragistics?


"Jim Hubbard" <reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I purchased Infragistics NetAdvantage 2006 Volume 1 CLR 2.0 and was mildly
shocked to see no sample apps included that showed the code/settings
required to replicate the UI components shown in the screenshot galleries
on their website.

Did I miss something?





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