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Office 2007 Style UI Ribbons: DevExpress or TMS?

Who provides the better solution for this particular component?

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  • We have been using both. As I see it, each solution has it's pro and contra.

    DevExpress

    1. Responsive (as in fast) components.
    2. Adheres to the Microsoft standard.
    3. Clean code.
    4. Very good support
    5. Expensive.

    TMS

    1. Not as snappy (as in fast) as DevExpress.
    2. Looking at the code, cleaning-up things wouldn't hurt.
    3. Very good support.
    4. Inexpensive.

    In a nutshell, TMS is always very fast in releasing new components (they had a Ribbon months before DevExpress released theirs) but in my opinion at the expense of code quality.
    We always have been pleased with both packages. For our latest projects, we are switching to DevExpress though.