The ASPx Blog - Mehul Harry's DevExpress Blog

Mehul,

Great idea - thank you. At the risk of sounding ungrateful (which I am definitely not), do you have plans to do the same for usage of your other tools and components such as grids, pivot grid, charts, XAF application usage (navigation, report creation, permission editing...) etc.? Would be a real boon for us.

Cheers,

Jascha

I'm not sure if this is going to be useful to me or not. I'd really much rather have a printed manual that I could then edit to fit my specific product, to address the specific issues that customers will see with MY products. If we could get a basic "how to use" document written for an end user that we could modify, it would be much more helpful to me

i got a tad enthusiastic when i saw the asp.net tag on this video, but alas, no such luck, so i must ask, is this tag a teaser for something soon to come? ☺

Mehul, that tech document was created in 2005 and last updated in 2007 - so I'm not holding my breath that we'll see it soon. However, I always have hopes. Don't misunderstand me, I like your products very much, and your company is always responsive to problems in the code...

Hi Mehul,

I will send you a mail with some suggestions.

I think that Charles' suggestion re. editable documentation sounds promising. Basically usage documentation that we could tailor to our particular products could well prove very useful indeed and, AFAIK, a USP for DX. I guess that one of the difficulties with turning this into a reality is that there is no DX reference application that could form the basis for the documentation. I.e. a sufficiently broadly scoped DX application showcasing the product set that could have a user manual written for it with the emphasis on usability. There seems to be some interest in something like this for XAF (community.devexpress.com/.../the-expressapp-application-framework-project-mojave-and-show-stoppers.aspx) and maybe that could double up as a vehicle for such documentation. I do not know whether that is a realistic proposition from your perspective but, either way, some editable usability docuemntation that could form a template would be very welcome.

Great Video.  I am adding a link for my end users.  Please create some more.  

I have created some videos too.

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Charles Russell  said:

"I'm not sure if this is going to be useful to me or not. I'd really much rather have a printed manual that I could then edit to fit my specific product, to address the specific issues that customers will see with MY products. If we could get a basic "how to use" document written for an end user that we could modify, it would be much more helpful to me"

Yes, I think the same.