So any feedback welcome - thanks!
I have used Telerik and they work pretty well.
One thing I found with a lot of the third-party web controls though
(including Telerik) is that they are pretty heavy. It is very easy to
end up with web pages approaching 1mb if you are not careful! This is
less
I have used ComponentOne and Infragistics and some other smaller widget kits
and I have a warning:
All of these big vendors produce highly over-featured over-complex controls
with large and dense documentation that wastes a lot of time unless you have
enough staff to assign someone to become a
Once you get into these kits you might as well consider yourself married to
them.
I have to agree with this. Rather than just providing some nice UI
enhancements they seem to want to take over the whole app and are not
easy to get rid of.
Craig.
Yes I agree, it's not enjoyable. It's just so much cleaner and enjoyable
working with raw html and javascript. Sometime's it's a great idea to
leverage such controls when the control itself would be a huge task create,
eg a reporting engine or a rich text editor. But for some data in a webapp I
Thanks for the prompt feedback - it helps a lot :)
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