Essential Studio – Bewertungsseite 7

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Very flexible and feature rich. Provdes variety of options.

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Turnaroudn time can be improved to provide faster resolution

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The fact is that most (if not all) of the components apply to real-world scenarios.

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The documentation seems a bit lacking. Even for a seasoned developer like myself, the documentation is hard to follow, and the examples do not always work as per the descriptions.

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Lots of professional components to use in my app. They look outstanding and will improve the overall experience for my users

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It's not always easy to integrate the React components. The examples are not always complete, and I have to reach out to support to ask how specific tasks can be done.

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Provide examples of controls and sandbox that help developer and also project team learn how to utilize Syncfsion specific to existing company technology standard. For example, my application using Angular control and other application using React. We can learn and differentiate what technology is suitable for our requirement meet customer expectations. Support team is very proactive and always provide the solution or inquiry responses from me. Help my project move forward as target plan.

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However, there are some features that I think it is common for many applications not in Essential Studio. We have to submit a ticket to consult the support team.

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It has a community edition, which was important for, as I'm starting up a small company, and donøt have the financials for purchasing the commercial edition yet.

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I don't have enough experience co comment on this yet.

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Easy to install, easy to use, variety of features

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Outdated documentation; Blink HTML to PDF not supported in windows docker container

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1. Very easy to convert html to pdf with a simple requirement2. Supporter is very good

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- The release quality is not good: I had an experience that when I update the latest package, the performance is very bad. + Old version: 15 seconds + Latest version: ~50 seconds- There are a lot of issues/bugs

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yours tools are designed to enhance productivity and simplify the development, and they really do that!

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Some methods dont work the way they supposed to work. I worked mainly with js objects! More examples on your Documentation, on your methods for example.

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We only use the diagramming tool. I guess that makes it the most liked.

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The requirement that we pay for the entire studio for the one feature we use.

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I like the large number of visual components available for building applications

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There are some features that use proprietary syncfusion backends that run too slow at certain times.

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gantt chart,and a lot of other controls,and the demos source code.

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document about property of controls and runnable demo about single controls.

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Six years ago, I started developing a large scale enterprise product. It required a lot of full stack development. It runs on Windows, Android and IOS. The infrastructures is all Docker containers. I am not a UI guy and didn’t have the time to build the UI components needed. Syncfusion components work well. Their generous licensing policies made using the tools possible.

Most impressive, is that I have received the same quality support as one of their paying customers. My system has architecture that I developed to solve a problem specific to my target industry. I did hit a bug that had not been seen before. Syncfusion’s support staff verified that the bug was in their code and issued a patch without argument. I can’t tell you how many times a company has told me “the software is not supposed to do that, so it’s not a bug”.

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There are components that I found difficult to understand even after reading the doc. But it was more the task at hand then a problem with a component. For example: To use the Word functions to manipulate a Word file, you must understand how Word structures its documents. But a note to support always results in a sample. So, really there is nothing negative to say.

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I like the completeness and in depth features of all the controls that I use, especially the data grid control which I use extensively. The sample application and online documentation is clear and succinct.

I find that breaking down the examples by feature is great when compared to other control vendors I have seen, that simply provide a high level example and nothing to demonstrate each feature separately.

On the few occasions that I have requested support, I have always received an answer in a timely manner.

What makes the WPF suite good value is not just the number of feature rich controls, but the complete package including the documentation help and support that is available.

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There are only two minor issues that I have with the suite of tools.

1. I get regular feedback from users that the date picker control is clunky to use. I can echo the feedback. Entering a date does not feel smooth, especially when entering the year. Hard to describe, but feel like it cycles back around to the year zero.

2. I would like it if I could customize the calendar control more. Would be great if I could easily template out the control for each date so I could use it to display what ever info I wanted in each date cell. Maybe there is a way to do this, but either way I have not been successful in being able to template out the calendar control for the requirements at the time.

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Integration is a breeze. The software is well designed and is rock solid. One of the best additions to the software are two apps you can download, Syncfusion Controls Explorer and Essential UI kit. The Controls explorer does a great job of showcasing various controls and illustrating different ways the control can be used. The other app, Essential UI Kit provides me with both a jumpstart for getting certain screens up and running but also a real work example of how the controls can be used. As an independent developer, I don’t have the luxury of hiring a full-time designer nor the flexibility of time to see how the control works. These controls allow me the ability to get my app up and running faster than before.

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The grid control still needs work. It’s great for presenting data, but if you’re looking for more flexibility when entering values directly within the grid, you’ll be disappointed. The richness of options available to you just isn’t there.

Knowledgebase on the website needs work. You can drill down to a specific control, say, Xamarin.Forms -> SfDataGrid however if I search for "Initialize" it searches the entire product line. Really frustrating and makes the feature rather useless.

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The Syncfusion Grid component is as good or better than any other on the market. It has every feature you could want: paging, sorting, filtering, sizing and reordering columns, exporting to PDF, CSV, or Excel. And they have just about every other rich web component you think of: Calendar, sortable list, embedded rich text/HTML editor, charts, maps, you name it. And best of all, their free community license includes ASP.Net MVC so you can develop rich MVC web UI applications. And also includes Xam

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Although they have extensive documentation, they so many components that do so many things, that not every feature has specific programming examples, so you sometimes have to figure things out through trail and error. And although the MVC components all have tons of methods and parameters you sometimes have to write JavaScript to make it work the way you want. So you need to be a strong programmer.

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Our project is to build a commercial-grade, security-compliant, serverless mobile app platform using only tools that are budget-friendly for startups. Our tool-chain selection includes AWS services (API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, DynamoDB, ...), Microsoft .NET Core/Standard, Visual Studio and Xamarin. All these tools are essentially free until your app starts scaling. Syncfusion's community edition was chosen because it provides commercial-grade features and doesn't burden the entrepreneur with out-of-pocket expenses until their app is generating revenue. Finally, our experience with Syncfusion's support has been first rate.

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Syncfusion targets many different UI presentation layers. In our case, we use Xamarin Forms which is relatively new for Syncfusion. The controls are generally solid but do require more "code-behind" work than is generally recommended in the Xamarin community. There are shops that totally refuse to allow "any" code-behind and if you are one of those you may have some issues using all of the Syncfusion controls. In our case, the limited code-behind required is not considered a barrier. In addition, the Syncfusion documentation is obviously not written by a native English speaker and as such can be amusing at times and occasionally annoying .

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I got Syncfusion primarily for the scheduler component and having looked at other options, this was the best front end solution I could find for my software. It's not perfect, but it's very good in terms of functionality and user interface. I think my clients will enjoy using this scheduler.

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It's a bit awkward to implement and the documentation is very poor. As for the scheduler, it comes with built in popup windows for creating and modifying events, but trying to get their styling to match my own was a nightmare because they did not use the same classes for every window, and not even the same classes for every button. It was surprising how inconsistent they were with their styling and that made it impossible to create consistent spacing and styling to match the rest of my system, so I ended up blocking all the popups and creating my own but this also was not easy or obvious. I had to contact support several times just to figure out how to use my own popups.

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Great set of Tools! But equally important I would say is the stellar support that you receive. ES also has a huge community so I've rarely had to reach out for support as there is usually documentation on whatever issue I am currently having already.

However I have been amazed that such a Enterprise Level company has a support team that actually gets back to you in a day or two with either code examples or a resolution! In my whole development career of over 15 years, I've never seen that level of dedicated support! Not from Microsoft, Google( Does Google even do support?) or any third party tool.

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Integration into projects isn't bad... I just wish it was a little more streamlined especially into Visual Studio. I ended up going with the Nuget Package installation because the other proved to be buggy and problematic.

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Has many components to use. But in most cases, I don't use them all. Most of our needs are fulfilled with bootstrap package, hence we only use treegrid or pivot chart. And probably the security is better than open source or free packages

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Documentation is very bad. Specially we use the syncfusion on Vue.js. However, the prop parameters doesn't have enough explanation. For example, please review your pivot chart documentation, it has almost hundred prop-able parameters, but most of them does not have any example or not clear how to configure or use it. In addition, somehow the propping order affects the functionality of the component. None of the documentation section mentions it.

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It works, renders html correctly enough.

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Non-platform independence for devops - requires package installation on deployment targets. Also requires manual setting of path to syncfusion binaries (that are in the nuget package!) at runtime.

Extra package e.g. Syncfusion.HtmlToPdf.Blink.Static.Linux could be created with a static compile to eliminate system dependencies and manage CVEs etc.

The code (which we have had to write ourselves) to locate the native binaries originating from the nuget package should be inside the syncfusion lib - there should be no argument to their path.

Also, while it might bloat the package, nuget supports separate native binaries per runtime [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] which would enable to create a single platform-independant nuget package - this would really lower the difficulty - especially in places like dotnet-script where you have no csproj to change the PackageReferences depending on the runtime!

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The vast component library and the support of different platforms, solutions etc. like WPF, Blazor etc.

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I have not found any things I don't like.

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Syncfusion controls whether for the Web or any other platform are well built, well documented, and well supported. All three of these points are extremely vital to project success.

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The thing is, if I ever have an issue, I get ahold of online support and they help us out right away. They always help me find the correct way to use a control, and give me a sample to help the process along. In some cases, they will even update their own code to support a feature I think is important.

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The extensive amount of controls and extensive frameworks and technologies you can use them with

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Some of the features does not work as advertise so we have to implement them ourselves.

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Many updates cause malfunctions in components from previous versions, Syncfusion Essential Studio is no exception, however its technical support is highly committed to continuous product improvement, creating successful customer support experiences.

Generating software in Essential Studio manages to improve the processes of any organization, making it easy and intuitive.

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The examples in the documentation are not enough. Should include more technical examples of component implementation

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I very much liked the built in functionality with a majority of the Controls it includes. In areas where functionality was not available, but needed for development, it was easy to incorporate custom functionality into the controls through control events, and via JS if needed.

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I feel some additional Demos or documentation is needed for some controls and their functions/features. I found myself in a few spots where I needed to do something, and based on reading the documentation I'm lead to believe it can be done, but no indication as to how. This results me in heading to user submitted questions looking for answers, and those tend to be very relevant to the Users needs. Of course this all isn't helpful with examples, but ultimately it could be called pet peeves as its functionality that not overly important but nice to haves.

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It's free for small outfits - seriously though, the community edition is really useful for myself who is a small sole trader and allows me to create powerful and capable web sites easily.
There is a lot of powerful functionality "out of the box", I especially like the functionality built into the Grid components and dropdown / combo boxes are handled the way I expect them to be with little coding required for normal situations.
Their community support is very good, I have used them about 3 or 4 times and each time they have responded within a day or two with both a written solution and normally a working example that I can download and examine

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One of the big issues I have is, for me, the lack of clear documentation. This is especially true when you go "off the beaten track" to try something different and it can be a headache to determine the best way to go about achieving the result (e.g. on a grid, what events fire when with what arguments). However, the support people have been good at coming up with solutions when I draw a blank.
As the product covers different environments (asp.net core, JS, MVC, Angular etc) and there are different versions (ej1, ej2 etc) it can be a bit difficult navigating through previously answered questions and applying them to my environment (in the main I use asp.net core).

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I like having the large number of components in the bundle as it reduces the number of third party components I need to complete my projects. I also like how rapidly SyncFusion rolls out updates to their products and the quality and speed of response of their technical support.

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I am not sure if this is SyncFusion Blazor specific or something inherent with Blazor itself, but the lack of Support for GUID in their dropdown list and other things like their event callbacks require that I change my GUIDs to string types in my models and then have to map them back to GUIDs for CRUD to the backend. Also, I really wish they had a good Step / Wizard component. I currently have to use Radzen's Step component for my WIzards and there are often CSS conflicts between Radzen and SyncFusion. If they do not add one, I will most likely have to create my own custom Step (Wizard) component before the project is finished.

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Syncfusion controls add style and features to my app that would be prohibitively time consuming (if not impossible) for me to code on my own.
My app makes extensive use if Radial Menus, Photo Editor, PDF Viewer and many many other controls.
They are simple to use and work consistently well on all supported platforms. My app runs on iOS, Android and UWP and providing a consistent and rich interface across devices is essential.

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Given the complexity of supporting multiple environments, I have occasionally run into stability issues with new releases. The occurrences have been rare and Syncfusion support has always come through.

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I researched all the various options before choosing SyncFusion. I was impressed by the breadth and depth of features it provides. Now that I am using it I continue to be impressed. I have also been pleasantly surprised by the responsiveness and level of help that I have received from the customer support staff.

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A product this powerful and supporting a wide variety of development scenarios certainly has complexity. The API documentation is sparse at times probably because there are so many APIs to document. However, I am hopeful they will fill that out before long. I am using it with Blazor which is a new platform so am used to things not being documented well yet. Sometimes the customer support responses are not real helpful but they do seem to be trying and when I ask again for more detail they are willing to try again. I am sure they have many questions to answer with many using this and it being so large.

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After years as an IT Manager, I'm playing an active role in Web App Development, specifically the .net 6.0 Blazor framework and have been thrilled with Syncfusion's Blazor Controls. We are approx. 6 months into developing an application with a target Feb 2022 release and their controls and support have significantly accelerated our development efforts. Thus far we have implemented Datagrid, Multi-select, Dropdown, File Upload, Accordion, and Rich Text Editor. To meet our requirements, both the Multi-select and File Upload had to be integrated into the edit mode of the Datagrid and bound to Azure SQL which was accomplished. They also have a robust KB which assisted us when we decided to implement Dapper ORM.

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We experienced a few anomalies with the Rich Text Editor specifically a page scrolling issue that we brought to support’s attention and are working on a fix now.

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Technical support is good at responding in a timely manner and the suite of tools available are very robust.

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Controls require some patience to learn.

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This products solves almost all our needs along with the standard ui and productivity components on the platforms that we deliver solutions on. We are almost entirely an angular/typescript, asp.net core and Xamarin shop.

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Sometimes the documentation and examples leave something to be desired but the very quick and responsive customer support more than compensates for that.

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Easy to use components that are very flexible

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Some of the documentation is out of date

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Using syncfusion with the licensed version is very helpful. Every time I get stuck, then create a ticket. It will be responded to mostly in less than 1 day. They always provide a solution on the stackblitz, so we can preview it directly.

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The thing that I think needs to be improved on the Syncfusion Component for react is drag and drop on the grid component especially on mobile version. It's very awful.

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Lots of components availableGood documentation (albeit in some specific cases, lacking important information only available by contacting support)

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My main issue is with customer support.They promise updates to queries in 24 hours, but very often they take 2 or even more days without any type of update. Just saying they are lookin into it would be enough, but not update of any type is very annoying.Chat support is almost useless. Almost every time I use it it would have been better to create a ticket from the start, as they seen to only have very basic knowledge on the products.

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Great Controls, great Service, Timely iterations

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Behind in Maui and Blazor controls. There is nothing else

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Easy to implement. Takes care of 90% of client needs.

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Inflexibility of upgrades. Being told something "can't be done" despite other software suites being able to do them.

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The product has a very high quality, stability and is well documented which lead to fast development cycles.

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I try to find something, but we where really satisfied with the product.

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The two things I like most, and there are more, are the wide range of controls and options for Blazor and the really good support and commitment of SyncFusion.

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Some things have so many options it can be confusing, not sure that's a bad thing. Supports good.

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Ease to install, good customer support.

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Documentation not always conclusive - needed to consult with customer support. I had very little web development knowledge/training so the underlying HTML5/java script was not always intuitive to me. For others the documentation may have been more intuitive.

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Essential Studio has a huge library of components, many of them unique or not very common in the market. The customer support is great and always helping solve our issues.

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The documentation has to improve because would allow the developers to find issues faster without asking to customer support. I thing that just making every customer support ticket public unless expressly asked by the customer would add a lot of Q & A besides improving the documentation.

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Lots of components for different platforms. It is easy to use. Tech support is world class, I usually have an answer in 24 hours, and they let you know when it is going to take longer time and provide an expected date. There is a Community version which is free but you must qualify to get it (this is the one I use). Although I have not used them, there are also Reporting, Data Science and Business Intelligence support, which I plan to test shortly.

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Documentation can be improved with more examples. However, this is not critical.

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Grid component features for Mobile and Web application which very important to my company.

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Barcode scanning feature is missing, there is only generating barcode feature.I found a few features not updated in documentation.

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The span of features is impressive, and when operated out-of-the-box everything "works". Once past the licensing issues, it is easy to use within an application for normal, simple features and feature set combinations.

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The documentation detailed how to implement several features for the Grid control. However, using the features resulted in unstable and inconsistent behavior in the UI. Working directly with support/development programmers from Syncfusion, found that there were several issues with timing within the control code and how to access the control API that were not documented. The result from the developer sessions was more complicated and very dissimilar to the published documentation for these features, but it finally started to work consistently.

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We have been using Syncfusion for a long long time (about 8+ years).

We were looking for a component suite which had all the necessary parts required for our software. At the time (and this still ultimately holds) Syncfusion were only the only ones to have a web Diagramming component AND all the other components (editable grids, hierarchical grids). An added bonus were the file handling packs (Excel, etc) so we can offer with our solution integration with Excel.

We've just recently upgraded the diagramming component to the new JS version and the feedback from our customers has been nothing but positive.

Nachteile

There are a couple of things:

- Documentation - The online documentation has bugs in that demos don't load and sample code cannot be seen.

- Quality - Sometime the QA of the components could be a bit better.

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I like the most Blazor diagram which works very smooth inside browser. But there are many good controls like dialog, excel and PDF creation API. The most important thing is an outstanding support from Syncfusion which exceeds expectations. You can get direct support on chat in few minutes. If you start with specific technology this level of support is a big advantage.

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I use Blazor grid with many columns (about 100), which are dynamically created (DynamicDictionary) and rendering such grid is slow. Editing complex controls in this grid is also slow.

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Great collection of components, for the web and desktop.

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Haven't found one yet. If there are some issues, I report them and they get taken care of.

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Was easy to setup and use the first time around without much effort, and you have any issues just raise a Support Ticket and found that the Customer Support would reply within 24 hours and they went a step ahead and would resolve any issues even unconnected with their product and every support ticket resolution at every stage includes a working sample created. Regarding the competition that I have used, they would take 72 hours to reply and generally requires 4-5 interactions before the issue is resolved, and support generally involved only around their product.

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Documentation seems inadequate, I feel they could improve on the documentation and that is where the Competition was better. I feel with better documentation online, raising Support Ticket would be reduced to minimum. Even when documentation is available it is sometimes a huge task to search them. Secondly sometimes feature requests takes a long time to get implemented, I can see some of them being requested over a year ago and still not implemented.

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We use 10+ different Syncfusion controls from Essential Studio for Xamarin and they quite literally have become an Essential part of our mobile product. They allow us to provide a UI with much greater polish and depth of functionality than the stock Xamarin Forms components while maintaining all of the cross-platform benefits between iOS and Android. And the Syncfusion support has been stellar. They have gone above and beyond on multiple occasions to help us track down obscure issues, some of which ended-up being our fault. Very highly recommended!

Nachteile

Event handling in some of the components can be challenging to work with, and some of the components have some annoying quirks, but these are minor quibbles overall. The written documentation can be difficult to read in places, but at least they do have extensive documentation.

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Plenty of features -- you will definitely find a component you need
Great support -- these guys have always been replying timely and fixing the issues I've faced, illustrating the answers

Nachteile

Documentation is not perfect -- all the properties are listed, but quite often lacking a detailed description and examples, you will need to experiment
Documentation portal is slow and structure is not ideal for a quick search
Components can be slow -- faced this with charts and grids
The behavior of components can be unstable
Price is quite high