I was happy to find this control because it will solve  great business need I have. BUT I am evaluating it and when I drop the control on a form, build the project and run it, the control is positioning the listboxes and buttons to the top left of the form. There seems to be no way of controlling it? I have attached a screen print.

So much for the tagline "We guarentee a prompt response to any inquiry". If you really do NOT provide a prompt response, then take the tagline off your website. I have been waiting for ANY response, and I am still waiting. In the meantime, I figured this out on my own for anyone that cares. You need to add a STYLE attribute to the component definition in the ASPX page:

style="Z-INDEX: 111; LEFT: 200px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 100px"

Dear Denv95,

Thank you for your posts and for your concerns in your follow up.  Prior to responding to posts our staff attempts to duplicate and diagnose problems locally in order to intelligently comment.  I completely understand your concern, but please note that not even 24 hours had passed since your initial post.  In light of your concern I will visit with our team about posting a "I have recieved your post and we are working on the issue" type reply.

I want to thank you for sharing the information you found in regard to the problem.  I will have our staff utilize that and include it in a patch we have scheduled to deploy over the weekend.  I will be sure to reply here as soon as the update has been deployed.

I want to thank you again for you posts and if there is anything else I can do to help, please let me know.

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Thanks for the follow-up. I guess it all depends on what you define as "prompt". I think that a message that indicates that you are looking into a problem would help impatient developers like myself.

I like the Ad-Hoc component. Thus far, during my evaluation, it is very easy to implement and will be a great addition to my application. I do have one additional question, since the datatable is stored in session, is there a way to release session resources after the component is used? Thanks again.

Dear Denv95,

 

Thank you for your reply.  When a page that contains the component is closed / disposed the DataTable object is released; however, we (like everyone) are at the mercy of the .Net garbage collector as to when the memory space is freed.  The problem that presents is when extremely large data sources are used, the component could potentially hold a lot of memory at the server.  That is one of the primary fixes being addressed in the release over this weekend.  The new update provides a means to connect to data without having to have the server hold a huge DataTable in memory… more of a disconnected approach.  The trick has been providing for backwards compatibility.  After extensive testing and coding we now believe we have “covered all of the bases”.

 

Thank you again for your post and if there is any other information I can provide, please let me know and I will be more than glad to.

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Dear Denv95,

 

Apparently I spoke out of turn.  Our team has informed me the tag is removed by the VS.net development environment when the component is placed on a page using flow layout (as with other controls).  There is no way for the component to force that the tag be included.  Therefore, we were not able to alter the component to accommodate that situation. 

 

The release of the solution for the detached data source has been postponed due to a last minute bug.  It has now been moved to Wednesday of this week.  I apologize for the error on my part concerning the misinformation.  Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help and I will be more than glad to.

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Dear Denv95,

 

I just wanted to share we have now released the new version of AdHoc component that I had spoke of that will support disconnected data sources.  The following post better details the release and also provides a code sample: http://www.aspose.com/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=19533#19533

 

Please let me know if there is anything further I can do to assist and I will be more than glad to.

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Danny Cooper
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