I am coming at RBS from having used various tools over the years (Lightswitch, Ironspeed etc) This kind of development is only something I occasionally engage with so visual apps like this are beneficial. I think RBS is extremely powerful but I am finding the learning curve steeper than it needs to be.
The documentation signposts aspects of the functionality but doesn’t go any deeper. There is no explanation that I can find for many of the properties and knowing that the interface abstracts some of the syntax makes it hard to determine from code examples quite what is going on. We get told there is a query builder but not what the objects within it do (some are more obvious than others) and that in itself is barely scraping the surface.
With a bit more practical help I think that it would be a great tool but the lack of documentation makes me feel like it is more an acceleration aid for those who would ordinarily build these applications from the ground up anyway. I don’t get the impression that that is the real target market.
One of the biggest single aids would be a project that uses the various component examples given for the Visual Studio flavour of Radzen. It is hard to join the dots between those examples and how they would be implemented in RBS. I feel like I am trying to learn to make a cake by being shown cakes rather than recipes.
I will be more than happy to be told I have missed some signficant resources along the way. Don’t get me wrong, I like the app, I am just seem to be doing too much by trial and error.
