Telerik controls in ASP.NET MVC

Question

Telerik claims that their controls now work with ASP.NET MVC. Has anyone already used controls in an MVC project?

My company uses Telerik ASP.NET controls in a large application, and it works pretty well. That is why we are thinking about using them in an MVC project.

EDIT 1: Telerik has a new transition to ASP.NET MVC, it looks much better than their first transition. But it was late for my project. http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-mvc.aspx

Answer 1

You may have already seen it, but Telerik has a message on how to use their controls with MVC and some of the limitations. I actually do not use their controls, so I can’t talk about whether restrictions are really a problem. It seems that when using controls with MVC there is a bit more “manual lift”, but there are workarounds for most of them to work correctly.

I hope that eventually they will release MVC versions of their controls. I hold back their assessment until this happens, but if you are already using them, I will definitely see how easy they are to use with MVC. Perhaps you could update your question with an answer if you try, and let the rest of us know how this happened.

Answer 2

You can check out the demo application (forum application) that they built using ASP.NET MVC, announced here . Source code is available.

The demonstration - simple and stylish - of the forum. It uses 9 of RadControls, including RadGrid, RadEditor, RadChart, RadTreeView and RadUpload, to create a forum site that has basic topic / message navigation, a formatted forum, an authentication user (with support for user avatars), and statistics website activity. All you need to have a fully functional MVC forums application. The source is available for immediate download, so I encourage anyone who wants to learn more about MVC or RadControls in MVC to take bites and learn an example.

Answer 3

I have been using Telerik controls for about 6 months. I use the grid and window controls on MVC 2. Like most commercial products, there are problems that we were lucky to work out. After you go through the initial learning curve, the controls are time keepers. You cannot beat the price for the amount of functionality that you get.

My biggest problem is that they seem a bit sluggish in their forums. Maybe I'm just asking lame questions. I lobbied management to pay $ for the supported version. Given the amount of time we spend solving some of the more complex problems, I think it was worth it.

Answer 4

I just looked at their grid and wrote a small POC project with it and I must say that I am very impressed. I'm not sure about my previous iterations of MVC control, but the current one may be in real time. It also fits very well in ASP.NET MVC ajax applications, as there is a rich client API. Having jquery DataTables on the client side leads to even more user experience (because it is much faster), but also requires more error-prone javascript code.