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on Nov 16, 2010
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Viktor - no, I don't have any questions. I understand that Telerik does not (yet) offer a component to replace NotifyIcon. That's fine.
I was just expressing frustration regarding my attempt to find a solution on this site. There is a lack of indexing, related links, and documentation to related to RadScreenTip. If I had been able to quickly find that object, and a description of how and where it's used, I would not have wasted so much time.
Further, my frustration is not simply with that one component. I've been expressing similar frustration for over a year now in this forum, with your site admins, and with your documentation people. Again, I love the tools, but sometimes it's very difficult to find the right tools to solve specific problems. So much engineering has been put into these tools and yet sometimes the website hides functionality and makes it difficult to use (and enjoy) the the tools.
I wish people at Telerik would be assigned to specific components. For each individual, make it a challenge, an obligation, to ensure that your specific component is documented better than anyone else's. Whenever you find that NotifyIcon may be confused with RadScreenTip, for example, check the docs to make sure that there is some reference between these components, and links to forum postings. The problem now is that some people are responsible for code and others for documentation. But individual components suffer with general purpose documentation. There are details revealed in these forums that never make it into the docs, and no one is charged with creating those links from "public wisdom" to "official documentation". If some individual(s) kept an eye on specific components then all of us would benefit - and of course we'd find out quickly who wasn't paying attention to their components...
Sorry for the soapbox speech. Thanks for your time.