I won a years subscription through dotnetrocks for: Developer Express DXperience Subscription
So.. to explore
MVC Stuff
Looking at ClinicalStudy big example
Castle Windsor for IoC
In memory db (so stuff runs without me installing a db– nice!)
Quite a nice UI…although heavy feeling.. not lightning fast.
What? 1.2MB page taking 1.8s to load locally. Okay, much better on second visits (100k or so).
namespace ClinicalStudy.Site.Tests.Controllers {
//Currently there is no any method which are not depend on ASP.NET authentication mechanisms
public class AccountControllerTests {
}
}
First test I looked at – not inspiring.. VS2010 demos, MVC3
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5758229/telerik-vs-devexpress-asp-net-mvc-controls After a bit more digging I found that their MVC controls are probably (need proof) the WebForm controls wrapped. That explains a few things.
Summary
Not what I’m looking for which is:
- Lightweight
- no massive page loads!
- KISS
- minimise javascript
- Great tests
- Simple
- Easily passed onto next developer (1000UKP per licence for these looks is an investment)
So DE looks like it is good for:
- WinForms
- WebForms
- WPF
- RADding of apps