what is an rad control? and what is the use of rad controls other than simplicity?

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third party controls like radcontrols are being used in the project. What is the use of them other than simplicity ?i am using vs 2008 version

Posted 11-Feb-10 20:40pm

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-11T20:42:00

RAD stands for rapid application design. Normally, that means pretend languages like VB6 so non programmers can make a form appear. Control libraries are a perfectly valid concept. Think about it. You'd like your control to do a ton of cool stuff, but you don't have the time to write it. OR, to put it another way: you could write it for yourself, which means all the dev time needs to be paid for by one client. Or a company can write these controls, sell them over and over, which means they are widely used, well tested, and sold for a fraction of the cost of paying an in house developer to write it.

I bought a PDF library recently. I had the PDF functionality I wanted in a morning, for less than the cost of my time to write it, which would have taken weeks to do.