Ajax Control Toolkit on a commercial website.

Question

Hi!

I'm developing a Asp.Net website that will be used for a lot users. Would you recomend the use of Ajax Control Toolkit on these kind of website?

Update:

I'm trying to imagine the worst scenario. Maybe with one user it will work perfectly.

By the way, I only use this controls from Ajax Toolkit:

ValidatorCalloutExtender, MaskedEditExtender and AsyncFileUpload.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I've developed with the Ajax Control Toolkit many times, and to be honest I would not recommend it. Many controls seem like they are in the Beta stage, requiring work-around and 'hacks' to get them working under the conditions you need. I think MS dropped the ball on this product. That's just my opinion though.

I prefer commercial toolsets, and am currently quite happy with Telerik's RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Great support, very good controls, stable. Not overly expensive.