which one to choose, Codejocks Xtreme Toolkit or Xtreme Suite?

Question

I am new in programming and it may look naive to some of you, but I am a little bit curious why Toolkit Pro is needed if Suite Pro exist. Although Toolkit is specificly for MFC, Suite Pro can be also used in VC++ development. If we would like to use VC++ to develop a product, which one is more suitable? If we use MFC in the developing, does it mean Toolkit will be the only choice?

Thanks in advance for your explanation.

Answer 1

Suite Pro is for ActiveX environments, where you can use it in VB 6 (Legacy) or NET language which supports ActiveX objects - such as C#, VB.NET WinForms and using ActiveX.

Toolkit Pro is for native MFC C++ environment.

Answer 2

I guess they using at different application scenarios. Toolkit Pro for native MFC application, if your application is already developed with VC++ & MFC, use Toolkit Pro can better with your existing applications are combined together. Otherwise you can consider using Suite Pro. I only used Toolkit Pro at MFC application.

Answer 3

A couple of things that separate the two products is implementation. While some bits of Suite Pro (ActiveX COM) might in fact work in C++, the classes are not always interchangeable.

For example, both products have an evaluation edition on Codejock.com. Inside the package are sample solutions which show ways to impliment Codejock controls. Looking between versions, usage is different.

Codejock also features usage examples in the features tour (click features tour to see example) sections of their product pages on their site- sometimes showing three sets of instructions, for each of MFC, ActiveX and C#.

I would like to note that, if you review the features tours and have JavaScript disabled, you will not see code examples in the non-JS version of the tour.