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kstowell
Admin Group Joined: 25 January 2003 Location: MIchigan, USA Status: Offline Points: 496 |
Topic: Why Did You Choose Codejock Software? Posted: 23 September 2007 at 12:29pm |
We truly appreciate our customers, and we are always looking to improve our products. We thought it would be interesting to hear your comments and or reasons why you decided to choose our products when compared to a competitors’ products. Thanks for taking the time, and as always we appreciate your feedback.
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Simon HB9DRV
Senior Member Joined: 07 July 2005 Location: Switzerland Status: Offline Points: 458 |
Posted: 23 September 2007 at 12:34pm |
Initially the Command Bars and Docking Panes.
Excellent value for money.
My users love the results, I think the support from Oleg and his mates is first rate. I like the poll - why can't I vote?
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Simon HB9DRV
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kstowell
Admin Group Joined: 25 January 2003 Location: MIchigan, USA Status: Offline Points: 496 |
Posted: 23 September 2007 at 1:15pm |
Hi Simon, I just checked all group and member settings, you should be able to vote now, let me know if not, thanks.
Cheers,
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Kirk Stowell, President and CEO
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Simon HB9DRV
Senior Member Joined: 07 July 2005 Location: Switzerland Status: Offline Points: 458 |
Posted: 23 September 2007 at 1:39pm |
Now it's OK.
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Simon HB9DRV
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mgampi
Senior Member Joined: 14 July 2003 Status: Offline Points: 1201 |
Posted: 24 September 2007 at 12:49pm |
Hi; I'm using the toolkit since its first or second release - I can remember version 1.2 or so. Initially I decided to use the toolkit because it merged many of the controls found on codeguru.com and also codeproject.com. The only components I'm still missing in the toolkit are "beautiful" looking charting components. |
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Martin Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0 Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit) Language: VC++ 2022 |
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terrym
Senior Member Joined: 13 April 2007 Status: Offline Points: 836 |
Posted: 24 September 2007 at 4:13pm |
What can I say:
Great support
Feature Rich
Quality Coding
Full Source Code
Competitive Price
Keep up great work
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Thank you,
Terry Mancey email terry@tmancey.ltd.uk | linkedin www.tmancey.ltd.uk | twitter @tmancey |
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adrien
Senior Member Joined: 30 April 2007 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 449 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 2:46am |
I did a compare of sample apps with a couple of different frameworks.
the Codejock sample apps had noticeably better redraw speed (i.e. on resize) and were more polished than the other frameworks I looked at.
However I really miss having a decent tree-list control. A report control in tree mode is a bit ugly...
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SvenC
Groupie Joined: 02 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 79 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 3:39am |
An Outlook like grid/report control
A trial time with good and immediate forum support which indicated an active product and community to me
Full source code
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Barto
Groupie Joined: 27 February 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 60 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 4:31am |
Initially I used a property grid from codeproject.com. However, I had to spend endless hours on fixing bugs and adding features. Then I tried the Codejock Property Grid, and as I replaced the old grid I could remove thousands of lines of code I needed previously, because the CodeJock Property Grid was so much better designed and easier to use.
This was the beginning when I realized it's better to just pay for a complete well-designed GUI library than to grab lots of classes from Codeproject/Codeguru. It has saved me countless hours of work :)
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SvenC
Groupie Joined: 02 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 79 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 4:40am |
Hi Barto, you might want to reread your first sentence, especially the source of your first property grid
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Shragel
Groupie Joined: 15 May 2006 Status: Offline Points: 48 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 9:45am |
You can vote more than once?
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dennisV
Senior Member Joined: 07 October 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 242 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 9:59am |
It appears so
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// W7 64 Ultimate SP1
// VS 2008 // CodeJock 16.2.3 (MFC) |
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SuperMario
Admin Group Joined: 14 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 18057 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 3:48pm |
OK, only 1 vote per person
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Barto
Groupie Joined: 27 February 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 60 |
Posted: 25 September 2007 at 5:34pm |
heheh, and I thought I checked it. Ofcourse I mean codeproject.com :) |
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Metodo_Sviluppo
Groupie Joined: 02 September 2004 Status: Offline Points: 43 |
Posted: 27 September 2007 at 6:28am |
The main reason i've choosed Codejock is the availability of new generations UI components (especially CommandBars,DockingPane and Office2003 like Shortcutbar) for COM environments and platforms such as VB6. The superb stability, performance and support has allowed me to deliver a new user experience for my users. |
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ABuenger
Newbie Joined: 02 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1075 |
Posted: 27 September 2007 at 5:55pm |
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who voted for perfomance. Sure, we all want features, but IMO features are worthless without performance.
A poorer performance means a less responsive UI and a poorer user experience. And when it comes to performance Codejock is currently the only game in town. |
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Codejock support
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markr
Senior Member Joined: 01 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 443 |
Posted: 29 September 2007 at 12:00pm |
ABuenger is absolutely right. Many of us continue to develop in native code partly to avoid the overall sluggishness of .NET WinForms interfaces. Performance and interface responsiveness are key motivations for our use of CodeJock libraries.
Aside from that, the features are great and the support is fantastic. The only thing I'd like to see improved is the documentation, but the samples and support do help to compensate for this weakness. Keep up the great work! |
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JamesH
Senior Member Joined: 01 December 2004 Status: Offline Points: 149 |
Posted: 02 October 2007 at 2:02pm |
We switched from using Infragistics because they dropped support for their OCX's. We don't have enough resources to convert our large application from ATL to .net so need an up-to-date set of OCX controls. |
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BCSVR
Groupie Joined: 04 June 2005 Status: Offline Points: 25 |
Posted: 04 October 2007 at 11:46am |
And MS office are very similar
Great products! |
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yair-edsoft
Newbie Joined: 14 April 2007 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 14 |
Posted: 07 October 2007 at 6:46pm |
Great Controls! Very good performance! Good stability! Very good support. And most of all-- the controls are getting better from release to release... CodeJock Team... i don't know your developers.. But it looks like they are Very talented developers!!!! |
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yair
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thodgson
Groupie Joined: 11 August 2003 Status: Offline Points: 78 |
Posted: 09 October 2007 at 9:30am |
Been using the toolkit for four years or more now, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.
The feature set is not matched by any competitor and we simply don't have time to create everything ourselves. Support is quite good and the toolkit has proven rather stable.
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Tim H(http://www.ExclamationSoft.com)
Product: Xtreme Toolkit v13.1 Platform: Vista(x64)-SP1 Language: Visual C++ 6.0 Currently: Satisfied w/ Toolkit |
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JohnCrenshaw
Groupie Joined: 08 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 65 |
Posted: 19 October 2007 at 6:40pm |
The features were good, and they WORKED!!! I tried 3 other skinning libraries before CodeJock's. In each one it took me less than 5 minutes to find a critical, identifiable bug. There is something funny about the CodeJock skinning that I can't quite put my finger on...I have to be carefull how I shut down my program...but other than that, I've never had one problem with it. The whole toolkit is generally robust, and the code is top notch. It's very very rare that I find a bug in CodeJock code, and when I do I CAN FIX IT!!!!!. Keep up the great work.
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Tomasz
Senior Member Joined: 05 August 2006 Status: Offline Points: 109 |
Posted: 23 October 2007 at 4:57pm |
+1 count me in.... I hate .NET (20MB runtime !!!) and hope that CodeJock will support native code for LONG LONG LONG time of course *with* source code which is essential when tracking down bugs.
Having said that I would love to see SyntaxEdit improved AND working faster.
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ABuenger
Newbie Joined: 02 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1075 |
Posted: 23 October 2007 at 5:29pm |
Have you downloaded the 11.2.1 beta? Many fixes and improvements for SyntaxEdit. |
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Codejock support
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wakerunner
Groupie Joined: 29 September 2007 Status: Offline Points: 85 |
Posted: 01 November 2007 at 10:41am |
Great product... sample code in the help file for each function would be great.
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JTC2007
Newbie Joined: 07 November 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: 07 November 2007 at 5:53am |
I still use vb6 a lot and this suite of controls is fantastic, and gives me very modern intefaces and features.
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Bob
Newbie Joined: 17 June 2006 Status: Offline Points: 9 |
Posted: 07 November 2007 at 4:24pm |
I too made the switch from Infragistics to Codejock when Infragistics discontinued supporting their OCX's. It was the best switch in VB6 controls I ever made!!! Not only do CJ's controls look great on an application, their performance has been very good. Also, CJ's support and sales has been excellent!!! Right now there's not too much I would like to see added except possibly some sample code in the Help file documentation similar to that found in Farpoint's Spread 7 control. While Codejock provides a lot of sample projects with code and excellent support, sample code in the documentation would make it easier to understand some of the properties, methods, etc. and at the same time possibly reduce the number of questions submitted to CJ's support team. |
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Bob
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meaningoflights
Groupie Joined: 27 October 2007 Status: Offline Points: 35 |
Posted: 07 January 2008 at 1:03am |
I've used most 3rd party controls on the market.
I've done a lot of winform apps with Devcomponents and a plathora of websites with telerik. I choose CodeJock for new version of an unmanaged bit of software. The support (particularly Olegs) is a big factor in keeping us loyal CJ's. |
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Jeremy Thompson (MCSD)
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Vulture
Newbie Joined: 10 April 2008 Status: Offline Points: 9 |
Posted: 12 April 2008 at 8:39am |
Even though I am slowly moving to .Net and C# for application development I still have a lot of projects in VB6. That was why I chose XtremeSuite. Now I get all the features I always wanted in a single suite of controls and it really made my apps look better. I will continue with VB6 for some time still which is a second reason I chose XtremeSuite since it is still in development and the support is great.
So, even though I see that .Net controls are being developed please do not stop supporting ActiveX.. We are a lot of people who rely on these excellent controls for our development. Having said that, I am still going to buy the .Net version of the controls when there is a package available as great as XtremeSuite. Thank you Codejock! |
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Alexey2
Senior Member Joined: 24 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 124 |
Posted: 12 April 2008 at 9:02am |
Yes, please don't stop supporting ActiveX.
Thank you!
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Krenshau
Groupie Joined: 15 October 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 49 |
Posted: 15 April 2008 at 12:48am |
CodeJock products are the best GUI products. I am really looking forward to the .NET Suite of controls.
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Ben
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evoX
Senior Member Joined: 25 July 2007 Status: Offline Points: 207 |
Posted: 17 April 2008 at 7:59pm |
I have just tested the new MFC controls from bcg, I have compiled all the samples which come with the new MFC update, but the UI looks ugly and the classes are slow ! I don't regret the 2 year subscribtion to CJ, it's fast, flexibile and the UI controls look much better than BCG |
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Onur
Groupie Joined: 17 August 2005 Status: Offline Points: 37 |
Posted: 02 May 2008 at 8:18pm |
Hi, here is why I chose CodeJock:
- Better adaptation of windows controls than any other competitor (I researched a lot before I chose CJ) - Extended features for every single control... - Great performance of controls (even with .NET interop) - SkinFramework (and now comes with SkinBuilder.. great!) - March Discounts!!! And here is why I almost didn't choose CJ: - Lack of .NET toolkit version - support forum is simply very helpful but needs more CJ staff on the forum (thanks to Oleg and SuperMario but they don't have the time to answer all questions which is very natural) - Yearly subscription fee could be around 100 USD (which is more reasonable... at least for me : ) |
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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 12.0.1
Platform: Windows XP (32bit) - SP 2 Language: Visual C# .NET |
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swuk
Newbie Joined: 29 March 2008 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
Posted: 07 May 2008 at 5:55pm |
Main reason - reputation. I'm a member of the ASP and CodeJock seems to be held in high regard by other members. Other than that, the product (Command Bars) has all the features I need and a very responsive support forum.
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cpehonk
Groupie Joined: 27 April 2008 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 22 |
Posted: 13 May 2008 at 7:47am |
Excellent software - no doubts about it !
I'm really looking forward for the next releases.
Cheers,
Chris
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Agent 007
Newbie Joined: 08 April 2005 Status: Offline Points: 4 |
Posted: 16 May 2008 at 2:51pm |
Tech support is top notch
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There are 11 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who know binary and make stupid jokes about it.
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ximh
Newbie Joined: 11 July 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: 12 July 2008 at 12:35am |
It is a the best GUI products, from China.
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geigy
Newbie Joined: 31 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7 |
Posted: 04 August 2008 at 7:07pm |
The conversion from my old MFC doc/view app to XTKP was lightning fast - about 24 hours real time from start to finish.
Other packages that I evaluated were cheaper, but there were any number of glitches in GUI components - bad rows of pixels around the edges of tabs, etc, - these can take hours of work to chase down. The big defect is documentation. I would like to see unix man style pages for each function. |
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Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com
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wolfmax
Newbie Joined: 08 August 2008 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
Posted: 08 August 2008 at 3:32am |
Low Cost & High Performence
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mkhadem
Groupie Joined: 28 July 2008 Status: Offline Points: 15 |
Posted: 12 August 2008 at 4:29pm |
It is a great product for this price. Good job guys.
Mo
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mitcheljh
Groupie Joined: 20 July 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 35 |
Posted: 30 August 2008 at 8:45am |
I learned of CodeJock from one of my previous workplaces that used it. Although they were using an older version, I was impressed with it's capabilities, and investigated the current version on the site, since I was looking for something for my personal projects.
I'm the type of person who spends a lot of time researching all the alternative and competitor products, but even after doing this I decided that CodeJock was much better than the others, and decided to purchase the CodeJock products.
Nice Job on the development of all the libraries!
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barobax
Senior Member Joined: 07 May 2008 Status: Offline Points: 117 |
Posted: 18 September 2008 at 7:00pm |
HI,
GOOD SUPPORT IS A BEST FEATURE OF CODEJOCK AND ....................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... Each dot is a best feature of codejock and Last 3 dots is etcetra. Thanks, Best Regards. |
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Kagome
Groupie Joined: 06 January 2009 Status: Offline Points: 35 |
Posted: 15 January 2009 at 2:57pm |
Tech support is by far the best I have EVER had.
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Product: Xtreme SuitePro 12.1.1
Platform: Windows XP Language: Clarion |
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mr.net
Groupie Joined: 26 August 2009 Location: Egypt Status: Offline Points: 18 |
Posted: 26 August 2009 at 10:27am |
code jock change style of my project to top desgines in userinterface Thanks to codejock developer team
MR.NeT
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shipwreck
Senior Member Joined: 18 April 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 308 |
Posted: 23 December 2009 at 8:18pm |
CodeJock, I only chose one option which was available features, but please know that everything is great and If I could have chose all options,I would. Great work!
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Product: Xtreme Suite Pro (Active-X), Version 15.3.1
Platform: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64Bit) & Windows XP Mode SP3 (32Bit) Language: Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 |
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SouthernImp
Newbie Joined: 01 June 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: 01 June 2010 at 5:03pm |
I have to say it's all about the user experience and at the time, how quick we could get something stable to our users. Feature set, development speed, stability and support are the main points for us but the price made it completely irresistable!
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dalai
Groupie Joined: 07 January 2011 Status: Offline Points: 36 |
Posted: 23 February 2011 at 1:18pm |
Initially for dockingpane. I was initially angry and frustrated but once I'd settled down realised that ToolKitPro is a good product and support is first class. I will continue to subscribe without doubt.
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