Infragistics WebGrid vs. Telerik Grid

Question

I have been using the Infragistics UltraWebGrids for a few years now in multiple products, but have reached a crossroads with them. I have been looking into the Telerik products and they appear to perform better than the Infragistics grids in the demos.

The following are the things I'm looking to know.
1. Which would you use and why.
2. Which grid performs better.
3. Which product is quicker to implement.
4. Which product is easier to maintain.

Answer 1

Go Telerik. And if you get 80 more rep at the time of writing this you might get a free license.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20849/thanks-to-both-stackoverflow-and-telerik-for-the-awesome-promotion

I use Telerik at work. I use to use Infragistics a while back. Telerik is way easier to use and seems fast enough for me. I never had performance issues with them.

Answer 2

Once I started using Teleriks Suite, I have NEVER looked anywhere else. It has everything I need hands down.

Answer 3

Clearly Telerik! I work with their controls for years - and also with some competitor suites (what shall I do if the customer....)

Anyhow telerik was the best I ever used.

And it's so easy to use this thing - I blogged about it. http://manni-at.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!82CF2A6C0D0C6F3C!224.entry

Last not least you will see the same editing cappabilities with their Silverlight suite sooner or later. This means there is such an Editor for Silverlight - but (at the moment) it has not all features.

Answer 4

As everyone else has already pointed out Telerik are the way to go - with one caveat - make sure you take the support option too. Their documentation is really bad, the forums are slow (and responses take ages) but their support guys are excellent. Send them a repro and they'll send you back a working version within a day.

HTH, Mark