XPSuite for Windows

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• Absolutely THE WORST components on the market. No support. A RIPOFF.

  captvideo1114August 22, 2007

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  The controls are terribly bug ridden. The support forum hasn't had any real update since 2005. The activation scheme keeps changing forcing you to reactivate on a quarterly basis (which is a bug ridden process in itself.) THEN, if you dare to criticize the company for the poor support, they boot you off the support site and won't talk to you anymore. THIS COMPANY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION!!!!!!!!!!

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• Technically fine, poor support and documentation

  JonShannowAugust 13, 2006

  Pros

  am a registered user of the software. Technically it's quite OK with most of the controls being quite attractive and allowing the VB6 programmer to give their application a nice modern interface. There's a lot of controls and each has a wide range of events and properties for most controls and there's nothing (without a bit of digging) that I couldn't do. The price is quite low compared with competitors.

  Cons

  The quality of the documentation is extremely poor and the consistency in naming from control to control is a little off. What's more the way the controls handle collections is very strange and not like any other ActiveX controls I've ever used. Support is patchy at best. Email support is OK, the support board is on a completely different site from the publisher and is badly run. The biggest indictment of the software is the manner in which licensing is handled. Each installation is keyed to a single computer, so for the single developer with more than one PC this means a high initial outlay.

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• XPSuite is full featured, advanced, and very affordable.

  unspoken43August 1, 2006

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  This is a serious product designed for special effects and skinning. I can`t believe how much there is to this suite of controls. The support is brilliant. <p>Over the last year or so it has taken only a few minutes to get a response. Support replies immediately and directly to emails. Numerous user suport forums are available as well. I understand advanced technical videos are available as well. <p> <p>Compared to other products $250 and $300 a control, CIA, The Company is just giving it away at $289 for 80 controls.

  Cons

  Why its taking everyone else to catch on to this new standard.

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• XPSuite v4 Skinnables is now available for download at publishers' site.

  munstahJune 27, 2006

  Pros

  Go to the publishers site and click on the Gekko to see the flash demo.

  Cons

  Having to wait 4 weeks to get download.com to update this products info.

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• v3 Support Available since April - v4 out soon with price increase

  BarrySumpterOctober 14, 2005

  Pros

  I loved this huge suite of controls so much I've built numerous products with them and have become the primary for support since April 2005.

  Cons

  The techs have been working so hard around the clock for the last year to bring you v4 that they haven't had time for v3 issues. v4 beta is releasing Oct 17 2005. And on sale soon after with a deserved price increase. Buy v3 now and get the v4 ugrade for free. All versions have free upgrades for life!

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• Product good, Support bad...

  January 11, 2005

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  The components contained within XP Suite are great and present a great user interface for the end-user; however, the support coming from CIA is bad. It has taken them numerous months to begin updating their help files, their community forum page has been down ever since I purchased the tool (probably because they didn't want to see other people's opinions and comments on how bad the support was), and the knowledge base has approx 2 articles located in it. As stated in the summary of this write-up: Product good, Support bad.

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