I have used the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC on a couple of small projects and they are quite convenient out of the box. The most useful extension has got to be the Grid Control, which allows you to very easily place a grid in your MVC Web Application complete with paging, filtering, sorting, etc. along with the ability to handle both server-side and client-side templates. The fact that the ASP.NET MVC Extensions leverage jQuery, come with a few skins, and have support for Telerik's CDN is awesome, too!
In Telerik's Q2 2010 update, which should be here very soon, we will see the beta of a basic HTML Editor with the ability to do formatting, bullets, hyperlinks, etc. A couple other MVC “Controls“ I am excited to see are mentioned on their blog:
“The other Extensions that will debut in our MVC package are the Window, featuring various built-in behaviors—animations, maximize/restore, resize, refresh and drag capabilities—and the ComboBox suite. The ComboBox will actually encompass three Extensions–AutoComplete, DropDownList and ComboBox. You can choose between the three depending on your application scenario.“
Pretty excited to see these new ASP.NET MVC Extensions in the Q2 Update. You can check out the extensions on the Telerik Website.
David Hayden
Filed: .NET Developer Tools and Components