Telerik Releases Q3 2007 RadControls Prometheus - ASP.NET AJAX UI Controls
by David Hayden, Florida Web Developer: Filed: .NET Developer Tools
Telerik just released their Q3 2007 RadControls. They have a Prometheus Line of ASP.NET AJAX UI Controls that are built from scratch to work with ASP.NET AJAX and apparently have a number of unique features and performance optimizations over the traditional RadControls for ASP.NET. I typically have a hard time using 3rd party UI controls, because they always seem a bit bloated to me than what I can do with existing ASP.NET Controls and a bit of JavaScript. However, it is a new year and a good time to leverage the rapid application development from using 3rd party controls.
RadControls Prometheus is described as follows:
“The Prometheus versions of RadControls are crafted on top of the ASP.NET AJAX framework and leverage the client-side functionality it exposes as well as the partial rendering technique to modify the state of a single or subset of controls instead of the entire page. RadControls Prometheus can be used under ASP.NET 2.x and ASP.NET 3.x (separate assembly versions build against both versions of the framework are shipped with the RadControls installation). The client-side object model and the naming conventions of the client side API of RadControls Prometheus follow strictly the ASP.NET AJAX conventions.”
You can learn more here.