Comment #1  (Posted by Conkerjoe on 02/15/2006)
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Good article. Check out Style Cannon from practisoft too
www.practisoft.co.uk
Their PractiX suite contains a similar control but seems to be more complete. it also as a really nice calendar control
 

Comment #2  (Posted by Customer on 03/03/2006)
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I am customer of PureComponents.
Their components are nice looking but that's it.
They dont support their customers - just look at their forums. So if you need something nice looking use it - if you have professional app dont -> their components have bugs and they dont fix them fast enough
 

Comment #3  (Posted by Alan Robinson on 04/29/2006)
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Too many bugs to list, mainly with the "visual extender"
Regret buying this junk... often fails to work entirely.
Very poor (non existant) support. Still awaiting a response...
 

Comment #4  (Posted by Alan Robinson on 05/10/2006)
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Just replaced Pure Components Visual Extender with PractiX StyleCannon' from www.practisoft.co.uk. Much greater stability & flexibility.
 

Comment #5  (Posted by Customer 1 on 05/11/2006)
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I purchased PureComponents and was very unhappy. I too switched to PractiX StyleCannon and now i am happy.
 

Comment #6  (Posted by Chris on 05/11/2006)
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I would be interested to hear what about the controls you didn't like...the specifics. I think the vendor would find this information useful. I personally didn't find any bugs with them and found them easy to use. It's always good to hear other peoples experiences though.
 

Comment #7  (Posted by customer on 05/15/2006)
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Chris for complains - just look at their forums. About the vendor - he dosnt care, or don't have the resourses to fix their(customers) problems
 

Comment #8  (Posted by Peter on 05/17/2006)
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I found this control very good and excellent for my needs. I do not know what issues you have with it, please be more specific. It seems to me that practisoft is making an advertisement here and just back kicking its competitor it cannot match... just a thought.
 

Comment #9  (Posted by an unknown user on 05/17/2006)
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Thanks for the great article. Well written, great info.
 

Comment #10  (Posted by Practisoft on 05/17/2006)
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Practisoft actually like the purecomponents entry set. We feel its a very strong competitor to our stylecannon and we hope they continue. Without competition there is no innovation so fair play to the EntrySet Controls. There are issues with the control mainly performance but there are design time issues too. Their support is terrible but if you are a competent programmer, support isnt something you should need all that often. I do not like their new set of components, i think it undermines the power of controls like the EntrySet extender and StyleCannon
 

Comment #11  (Posted by Customer on 05/20/2006)
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Peter - you want somthing specific
Check this for example
http://www.purecomponents.com/support/forums/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=442

 

Comment #12  (Posted by Chris on 05/20/2006)
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Thanks for posting the bugs guys. I will make sure that they see this feedback. Any component provider worth their salt should be open to contructive critism and willing to support their customers or at the very least explicitly let the customer know that support is limited before the customer buys their product.
 

Comment #13  (Posted by Peter on 05/23/2006)
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Well, as I can see, issue is resolved and Mr. Robinson is happy.

His words "EDIT - This issue is resolved, thankyou to Pure Components for their understanding and support.

Alan."

Seems fair and okay to me. Doesn't it?
 

Comment #14  (Posted by Customer on 05/26/2006)
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He he Peter - yes it's resolved and edit after posting on this forum. Realy nice:)) They even edit and change customer post. Should I suspect that somebody just delete bad posts? Otherwise nobody will edit his previous post.
Hey Purecomponents gyus we are not stupid!!!
But maybe critics work - but till now this guys was terible. Hope they will learn some lesons about customer support.
 

Comment #15  (Posted by an unknown user on 06/05/2006)
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The author was too sparse. I hoped for more complete lists of pros vs cons.
 

Comment #16  (Posted by Trevor Westerdahl on 06/05/2006)
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The article was okay, but I have to add my name to the list of people who are not happy with Pure Components support.

1. They do edit AND delete comments from both their forum and thiir "Web Portal" for support.

2. They often take a week to respond and they rarely make an effort or attempt to answer the "actual" problem. I swear they have a list of built-in responses and just send one without thought. The licensing software they use locks up my VS2005 environment and they resond with "it is impossible for components to lock the IDE".

3. They have many major bugs, for example once I add soe components to a form, they cannot be deleted because they did not add the serizable attribute.

Seriously, they have the nicest looking and they best concept I have seen for data entry, but their responses weren't just poor, they were offensive (to me) and their product is clearly based on a "take it as it is, or leave it" mentaity.

I would never, ever recommend this product with the support they provide. It is sad when the potential is so great.
 

Comment #17  (Posted by M.R. King on 09/01/2006)
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I read the article and all of the comments and in my experience with PureComponents I have to add my self to the list of people who are not happy with Pure Components support. I'm a componentsource's customer since years and PureComponents's support is the worse I know.
 

Comment #18  (Posted by an unknown user on 09/27/2006)
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They told me lies, and get no answer they from Support. I really ask me what they think about
us customer. I guess nothing.

 

Comment #19  (Posted by Thomas Torne on 03/21/2007)
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All in all perfect solution for my needs. Thanks.
 

Comment #20  (Posted by Ariel on 03/25/2007)
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I'll post you here guys, my 2 unsolved and unanswered issues i've sent to their customer's support, we have bought the whole set about $ 400. So you will see the errors i had and no answers yet. We decided to make a money drawback.

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28.2.2007 Bug Report Status: Unassigned
Product: EntrySet Controls for .NET WinForms V1.x
Summary: Inner Value and Visual Value doesn't match

Hello, I was searching your forums and i found that this issue was registered, but i see i'm having the same problem. I assign the DatePicker value by code, and when i run the app i see the combobox with the correct value, but the value reflected in the calendar panel is assigned to the Current Date. Any suggestion? any patch to correct the problem? regards Ariel

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28.2.2007 Bug Report Status: Unassigned
Product: EntrySet Controls for .NET WinForms V1.x
Component: ComboBox
Summary: Assigned DataSource but doesn't reflects the ComboBox

Hello again, I continue to test/use your controls, and the second i test, another problem. The ComboBox i was using was the standard from VS2005. Now changing it to yours, i don't get the same results. I've setted the 3 binding properties to make the control bindeable with a generated DataSet. The DataSet itself has 4 values (very well checked at debugging), when i fill the DataSet and try to show the Combo, reference null. I made exactly the same in my code, assigning the datasource, displaymember and valuemember, and the same problem. I even cannot set the SelectedIndex value, it continues to show -1, and SelectedItem of course: null. I was reading the forums again, and there're a lot of users having the same problem since 6/10/2006. Is pretty amazing that testing only 2 controls, i get problems with both. Visual enhancements are very good, and that's why we choose your company, but is incredible that the most standard issues of controls development as databinding are not working fine at all. We have a working application, we are not "starting level" developers. We need answers and quick. regards Ariel

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as you may see guys, at least for the first issue only if you have the whole component's code, you can solve it... but that's not the idea isn't it? why should i fix the others erros? others who we paid for their job... or at least to anwser the questions... is the minimun nope?

thanks... and hope this gives you a more exact idea about these guys and why you should not buy their products

regards

Ariel
 

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