Comments on: Considering ASP.NET MVC UI controls? Learn HTML and Javascript!

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:49:30 +0000

I agree with you about the toolkits you linked to, but I think Coolite (http://www.coolite.com/) might be on to something. Their toolkit (actually just a wrapper on to ExtJS) forgoes the WebForms postback model, and in the process opens itself up to usage in both WebForms and MVC scenarios.

By: Dmitriy Nagirnyak

Dmitriy Nagirnyak — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:18:44 +0000

Cannot agree more!
In fact all the 3rd party controls bring additional complexity, dependency, maintenance, deployment problems just to state some.

By: Ben Anderson

Ben Anderson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:26:36 +0000

Couldn’t agree more! I was initially exited when I heard there was some jQuery *helpers* from Telerik, but they are really just an unnecessary abstraction so devs don’t need to learn JS. I can’t see any other real benefit from using them.

By: Joel Abrahamsson

Joel Abrahamsson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:22:24 +0000

Good post and spot on!

By: andrexx

andrexx — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:29:40 +0000

Agree