Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF - the most complete offering so far. We spent a few hours with some nice and bright folks from Infragistics this past friday. I did my best to tell them they need to make their grid fffffaaasssstttt!

SandDock for WPF - not tried it yet. Seems like it will be …. docking.

Xceed Datagrid for WPF - looks nice. I will toy with it sooner than later - maybe next weekend.

Blendables Essentials Mix - seems like a newcomer. Looks like some potentially interesting stuff more on the real UI, 3d side of things.

WPF Ribbon - well - looks lovely. A ribbon is coming from Infragistics, but this one looks nice for now Perhaps I will try this before Xceed’s grid.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise for WPF - Chart, Grid, Schedule .. not done yet. Later this year

Syncfusion - when last we spoke - I got the feeling it was a beginning of ‘08 thing at best. Sad - help  us out here guys !

Thats about it. Please post more if you got ‘em.

-Chris

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1. Actipro, on May 29th, 2007 at 12:23 pm, said:
   

   Hi Chris,

   Got some more controls for you…

   Actipro Ribbon for WPF
   http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/WPF/Ribbon/Default.aspx
   A ribbon control suite duplicating the Office 2007 user interface

   Actipro Wizard for WPF
   http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/WPF/Wizard/Default.aspx
   Control that makes it simple to create wizard dialogs in WPF

   Our web site has live XBAP demos of both controls and more great features are on the way!

2. stevenb, on June 1st, 2007 at 8:45 pm, said:
   

   So by saying, “they need to make their grid fffffaaasssstttt,” are you saying that it was slooooooooow?

   They seem to have the most complete offering when it comes to CAB/WPF but I haven’t worked with it lately. What were your thoughts from the time you spent with Infragistics?

3. chrisdrop, on June 1st, 2007 at 11:37 pm, said:
   

   ActiPro guy - thanx for the references.

   Stephen - in investment banking/ wall st/ trading land - grids are used a LOT for LOTS of FAST market data. In any of the firms that I was at - they ALL had their own internal benchmark tests for “the grids”. For winforms - i’gistics was usually dead last. I have no benchmarks on the WPF grid - and there is little to weigh them against. All I am saying is that - their WPF grid must be fast - and their winforms grid - while I liked it - was slow compared to the others.

   -Chris

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