Great 3rd party Ajax control suite

Posted by Guang on June 28th, 2007

Have you ever tried Ajaxify your ASP.NET application? Have you tried and tired?

I’m one of those guys who already tried and tired on ajaxify the application to fully working in Ajax basis. Until the day I found one of a great Ajax control suite named Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET. It was combined by various ASP.NET UI controls. Most of the controls, I can say nearly 100% already ajaxified for your instant using without deep knowledge on Javascript writing.

I found that my productivity was much increased by this suite and their support are great as I never seen this support anywhere even the more famous controls suite like Infragistics NetAdvantage, ComponentArt, ComponentOne or any other else. You can get quick response back within 24 hours with many samples on your desired case. So, for me It doesn’t a hard decision to afford it for 1 year subscription. After I’ve purchased, I found the bonus are very impressive as Telerik give us many interesting things than I thought. In my case, I purchase Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET with subscription for 1 year. I got Telerik RadControls for WinForms too. After purchase date around three months, Telerik releases new version of Telerik RadControls for WinForms with WPF. (Windows Presentation Foundation) and they give me too! What’s a kindly guy! In next six months, I found that the product was continuously updated around 4 times with many new features. Again, when they release their Telerik Reporting product. I also got it from current subscription and I thinks this reporting product are compact, fast and very easy on deployment. (I kicked out Crystal Reports, Microsoft Reporting Services and even DevExpress’ one - Every products I listed here are required to install some special executables into web server but Telerik’s just use XCOPY method)

If you are finding for a great Ajax controls suite. I can say that you will got the point when working with Telerik’s suite. Very very impressive!

Click here to read my opinion about Telerik’s Reporting.

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ASP.NET, Ajax, Telerik

Agustin said,

August 20, 2008 @ 3:12 am

Wow man! You seem very impressed by Telerik.

I’ve tried ComponentArt, which seemed not to integrate into my Visual Studio IDE. I had to manually edit the markup every time, mostly in the blind! I discarded it completely.

Then I started testing DevExpress 7.3
I must confess, after a while of using it, I feel it’s really tricky, but I’m able to get what I need so I’m scared of using a different one.

DevExpress is really powerful, we must admit, but you have to be prepared for solving hundreds of issues that will arise continuously during the development of your application components.

I hate that, but as I said, with a huge amount of work I’m able to obtain what I need, and I feel pretty scared of migrating to a different component and get stuck, like it would happen if I have to use ComponentArt back again.

Please don’t misunderstand. DevExpress is a very powerful suite and their support is amazing. It’s just I feel you must become a MASTER or SPECIALIST of DevExpress instead of focusing on the larger picture.

Then again, I’d give a try to the Telerik’s control, as per your suggestion :)

Have a nice day.
Cordially,
Agustin Garzon.

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