Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:49 PM
Kazi Manzur Rashid
Introducing Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
[Update: We have just upload the source code in CodePlex. Check it out.]
[Update: Also checkout the Atanas post where he detailed our plans and goals of this product.]
Today, we have released our first public community technology preview of our ASP.NET MVC Extensions. This is a very lightweight framework for developing ASP.NET MVC View Components that we are working for last few months. There are few key points that I like to mention:
- It is Open Source (dual licensed), yes you heard me. It is the first Open Source project of Telerik released under MS-PL.
- It is free for the time being we will be developing our commercial components based upon this tiny framework.
- It is based upon jQuery, yes we know how much the community loves it.
- It supports multiple view engines. The sample contains the Webform, Spark and NHaml examples.
- The CTP contains the popular jQueryUI components as a proof of concepts but you can use it in your application with complete confidence. Since, we will be releasing our own version, it would be difficult for us to give it the same priority, instead we expect the open source community will be responsible for its further development(enhancing, bug fixing and adding new components) and we will be accepting patch/new components for the jQuery components from the community.
You can download it with complete source/tests/samples/docs from our ASP.NET MVC Product page (we will be also uploading it in CodePlex), please check back if the page is still not available.
You can also check the jQueryUI Webform demo over here.
I will be blogging more about this very soon.
Stay tuned!!!
Filed under: Asp.net, MVC, ASPNETMVC, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery UI, jQuery, Telerik