ComponentArt Releases Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX

ComponentArt today announced a commercial version of their Web.UI controls that integrate with the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (aka "Atlas"). 

Click here to view some of their online demos (which are pretty impressive).  You can also download a beta edition of the controls from their site, as well as check out the client-side API reference they've added (using the ASP.NET AJAX Library) for the controls they built.

One of the things I'm really looking forward to seeing are all of the great controls that are going to be built (both commercial and open source) using ASP.NET AJAX as it approaches the fully-support 1.0 release version.  Seeing really cool controls like the ones ComponentArt are doing is just great, and are going to enable developers to build really responsive UI's in a short amount of time.

Hope this helps,

Scott

7 Comments

  • Let's hope their programmers finally figured out what OO means, so they'll simply consume the datasource controls bound to their controls using the base class DataSourceControl, instead of an if-else tree to check if the datasource control is one of Microsoft's and if not, it gives up... :-/

  • One thing i do not understand is that on another blog announcing this component suite he said:

    "To think that they were able to do that even though we're not even in beta"

    Well, in another entry on this scottgu blog it is saying "final release by the end of the year"

    Considering that it's just about October, we can expect an official Beta period of less than 3 months? There's still seemingly tons of issues (just check out the forums on forums.asp.net), including the outright non-functioning of Atlas in the Opera browser

    Any idea how/if all this is going to get addressed between today, this short Beta period, and final release?

  • I hope they focuse more in performance. Specially in load time.

  • Well the their control are promising, but they are still lacking the key board support. most of their control are need mouse@~.

  • As far as the GUI, they are very pleasing and intuitive and seem quick loading. Me likes... We'll see about the dev side of things. Not being a big fan of third party comp's, I haven't had a project in a long time that gave any other alternative due to time constraints.

    Have a decent amount experience with Telerik, not totally stoked on performance, but measuring the functionality added, performance/ functionality is nearly acceptable. Have you ever visited teleriks site? It can be painfully slow rendering.

    I am curious to see how well Atlas, I mean ASP.NET AJAX, integration is, Telerik has some frustrating work arounds which I imagine they will fix sooner than later. For example in some instances it is necessary to explicity supply CSS link ref's for their controls when using UpdatePanel.

  • Good to know about these controls. But these need to have keyboard support and should be fast

  • I think they could do with an UpdateProgress or two on their demo pages

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