Hi there,
a lot of guys are right: it seems to be neccessary to wait for the first service pack of a new Telerik version. :-(
This was the same procedure with ANY new version in the past... this is not a very good recommendation for the QA at Telerik, I guess.
You should not favor QUANTITY over QUALITY. It is very, very frustrating to find several new bugs in *existing controls* in every new release of the controls and to wait for the service pack for several weeks.
We tested the new 2012.1.0215 version in our current project (it uses several WPF controls from Telerik). And after some minutes of testing, we found 4 really severe bugs. Basic stuff, which worked totaly fine the 2011.3.1220 version...
So we had to switch back again (as allways).
Look at DevExpress (I worked with their controls for years in the past): they seem to have a much better QA than Telerik. I never had such problems with new bugs in new versions of WPF/WinForm controls at DevExpress.
Come back to QUALITY and good QA, guys! Your customers want to have stable and bugfree controls. Invest more in QA of existing functionality instead to produce more and more fancy controls for the kids in the block!
A very frustrated customer.
Felix Brückner
Normfall GmbH
Germany
a lot of guys are right: it seems to be neccessary to wait for the first service pack of a new Telerik version. :-(
This was the same procedure with ANY new version in the past... this is not a very good recommendation for the QA at Telerik, I guess.
You should not favor QUANTITY over QUALITY. It is very, very frustrating to find several new bugs in *existing controls* in every new release of the controls and to wait for the service pack for several weeks.
We tested the new 2012.1.0215 version in our current project (it uses several WPF controls from Telerik). And after some minutes of testing, we found 4 really severe bugs. Basic stuff, which worked totaly fine the 2011.3.1220 version...
So we had to switch back again (as allways).
Look at DevExpress (I worked with their controls for years in the past): they seem to have a much better QA than Telerik. I never had such problems with new bugs in new versions of WPF/WinForm controls at DevExpress.
Come back to QUALITY and good QA, guys! Your customers want to have stable and bugfree controls. Invest more in QA of existing functionality instead to produce more and more fancy controls for the kids in the block!
A very frustrated customer.
Felix Brückner
Normfall GmbH
Germany