Which Silverlight Control Set is better? Telerik or ComponentArt?
I have used ComponentArt, but I just reviewed Telerik and it looks like they might have better functionality for the same price.
If you have used both, then please let me know your opinion.
I've inherited codebases infested with Telerik garbage in the past, and I would strongly recommend avoiding their stuff at all cost.
The one good thing I can say about them is that it only takes about a day of effort to remove their terrible Ajax RadPanel stuff and replace it with something lightweight and sane.
I've not tried their Silverlight stuff, but having seen the quality of their other products, I don't plan on doing so.
I used Telerik controls for AJAX in my projects in the last couple of years and so far I do not have any complaints. My productivity boosted to a great extent and my clients are very happy with the results. Jason, I do not know why you consider the Telerik AJAX controls as a low quality toolset - the ajax panels are simply wrappers around the asp UpdatePanels with some thingies that helps you manage async requests. Furthermore, their ajax manager is quite handy when you want to define declarative ajax relations through the designer or initiate ajax requests from the client and intercept them on the server with simplified coding.
I am beginning to evaluate their Silverlight toolset as well for some of my future projects and at this point my impressions are rather positive than negative (compared to ComponentArt).
Dick
ive been using Telerik controls for about 3 years. at this point i dont plan on doing any UI work without them...ever.
i have no idea what the gent who replied they are difficult to install/unistall from a project is talking about...honestly. in regards to "replacing a radpanel with something light weight takes a day" they are built on top of aspnet ajax and actually have more features and performance wise (in respect to xmlhttp panel) they are much faster. aspnet does full page cycle its not even ajax its just a trick to surpress the page blink. same traffic can be seen in fiddler with or without them. much less with telerik.
as far as SL controls go. they are without any doubt the best on the market