James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
I don't it to sound like this product is useless - yes, it makes life difficult, but when compared to creating your own code for docking toolbars, then its like a stroll down the street. If you persevere with this control, you can produce very professional interfaces, with all the features of Office 2000. However, despite a well developed front-end, creating these interfaces are far more difficult than it should be. On the other hand, it is just as well the 'buggy' side is what the developer uses, not your own users.
If you have the time and patience to spend working with this control, then you will eventually be rewarded, but you need plenty of time! Unfortunately, at the moment, I have not found another similar control, so if you want an interface like this in VB, you will have to persevere. On the other hand, it might be worth waiting until .NET, which will see all the features C++ programmers have access too!
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