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A coworker of mine pointed out an article on Intersoft's
support board discussing their approach to integrating with
ASP.NET 2.0. The company has said they will wait for the actual
release to port their products which is unfortunate. As part of
the discussion, the person who posted the note mentioned spending time
at Microsoft's compatibility lab in Redmond. While the Microsoft
employees were familiar with some 3rd party ASP.NET grids (Infragistics
and others), they were not aware of the Intersoft products including
WebGrid.NET.
I think this lack of awareness is
unfortunate as the Intersoft WebGrid is doing some things with ASP.NET
that are pretty cutting edge - namely the OnTheFly Postback
capability. The product has received excellent reviews with its
only criticism being that it's an IE-only solution. However, that
is changing now that they are rolling out a Gecko-compatible
solution. While I wouldn't expect Microsoft employees to be aware
of the entire market-place, I always find that keeping an eye on the
'edges' of markets where people are doing things fundamentally
different than anyone else is important because 5-10% (personal guess)
of what they do is a reflection of what will be mainstreamed in the
future. Intersoft is pretty tight-lipped around the design they have
implemented, but from what I've seen it's a fundamental piece of
plumbing that can be applied to a large number of control
scenarios.
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