Question

I had an open-source spare-time project two years ago where I used the free 60 controls by DevExpress, from the link here: https://www.devexpress.com/Products/Free/NetOffer/

I was vey happy with these and I even personally recommended these controls here.

My project now is quite old, but now I want to make some minor changes, and I just experienced, to my surprise, that I will no longer be able to build it, because I took a dependency on those controls. I did not copy these DevXpress libraries locally, so I really lost them.

What can I do about these now missing controls? Does anybody faced the same already? Should I replace them (quite a lot of work, because I do not want to change the UI at all now), or does someone still have these around?

Answer 1

My mind just had a glitch :-/ These DLL’s are of course found in my installer package. I just installed my own software from codeplex, where I published it, searched thru the Harddisk and voilà, here the are, listed:

DevExpress.Data.v10.2.cdf-ms
DevExpress.Data.v10.2.dll
DevExpress.Data.v10.2.manifest
DevExpress.Utils.v10.2.cdf-ms
DevExpress.Utils.v10.2.dll
DevExpress.Utils.v10.2.manifest
DevExpress.XtraBars.v10.2.cdf-ms
DevExpress.XtraBars.v10.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraBars.v10.2.manifest
DevExpress.XtraEditors.v10.2.cdf-ms
DevExpress.XtraEditors.v10.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraEditors.v10.2.manifest
DevExpress.XtraTreeList.v10.2.cdf-ms
DevExpress.XtraTreeList.v10.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraTreeList.v10.2.manifest
DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.v10.2.cdf-ms
DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.v10.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.v10.2.manifest

So, just in case, anyone needs those DLL’s (The original 60 controls suite consisted of more files, however), you can get them the same way from my installer.

I would guess this is legal, since distribution in my project (with LGPL v2) was also legal.