Alternative to dotNetBar

[edgareatis]

Anyone know of a good DotNetBar alternative? Preferably cheap or free.

[SubCub]

Yes but no sharing use google.

[edgareatis]

Yes but no sharing use google.

Why post if your not going to be helpful?

[SubCub]

Cause imma noob

[³²³]

I have one, it's called uTorrent :P

[whit]

https://www.mpgh.net/forum/160-progra...omponents.html

[freedompeace]

Honestly, make your own. DotNetBar is total junk. So are most alternatives.

Telerik is okayish.. but yeah, make your own. Spend a few weeks on it and you'll have it to how you want, perfectly.

[Jason]

Honestly, make your own. DotNetBar is total junk. So are most alternatives.

Telerik is okayish.. but yeah, make your own. Spend a few weeks on it and you'll have it to how you want, perfectly.

Although if you're an absolute beginner programmer, spend a few weeks on it and you won't end up with shit.

Telerik is gay imo, deployment issues sometimes, plus some of their 'common' controls are buggy.

Most 3rd party components are lame anyway, but there's been like 50 of these threads (especially in the VB section) recently so just look there, you're going to get the same sort of replies.

[freedompeace]

Although if you're an absolute beginner programmer, spend a few weeks on it and you won't end up with shit.

Telerik is gay imo, deployment issues sometimes, plus some of their 'common' controls are buggy.

Most 3rd party components are lame anyway, but there's been like 50 of these threads (especially in the VB section) recently so just look there, you're going to get the same sort of replies.

If you look at any of these controls, you will see that they bug up here and there, especially if they're WinForms ones. For example, an arrow might leave a red streak down your app because it doesn't properly invalidate - just look at the demo for Infragistics Winforms 2010 V1, suggested by whit in this thread.

WPF isn't as prone to this problem.

I had a play with DotNetBar a few years ago, and it leaked memory. Well, you can't leak memory with .NET, but it didn't dispose of memory until the app was closed.

Lastly, do you really need to differentiate your app from the OS's controls at the cost of consistency? I'm not talking about minimalism, but making your app look like a bloated bunch of controls, which I've seen in the VB section recently.

Microsoft are the only ones who make good alternative controls, since they spend thousands of hours testing it with a team of a hundred.

edit: Sorry about the rant, got carried away.

[B1ackAnge1]

Just tap into the windows ribbon framework with COM - that's totally free

[³²³]

Xceed is awesome, but I can't get it to work (tried cracked before I bought with birthday money ) but I can't get either one to work.

[edgareatis]

Ok i do very little visual stuff in c# and have never been good with it. I know it pretty well but someone point me to a tut on making the user controlls for a windows form? I know how to do the rest :P