Windows Phone Thoughts: Resco AdvancedList Control 2.1 for .NET CF

Conclusions
Resco's AdvancedList integrates well with the Visual Studio .NET IDE. The installation is seamless and the online documentation (which integrates into the IDE's help system) covers the control completely. The use of the Designer is intuitive and surprisingly simple given the variety of the layouts that can be produced through the use of multiple RowTemplates and Cells, and the ability to run the Designer independantly of Visual Studio .NET is an added bonus. Despite all this flexibility the control is relatively small (just 84k) and very fast, both during load time and during usage. The ability to easily bind the control to data in multiple ways and to load configuration information from XML files makes the control a useful tool in a RAD environment. All in all, AdvancedList is a vast improvement over the standard list and grid controls and would make a fine addition to any developer's toolkit who needs to display any kind of data list.