Native UI Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC is a comprehensive set of native MVC, jQuery-powered UI components that help you deliver richer apps to market faster. With their slick look and feel, optimized performance and aggressive release schedule, these components give you more time to work on the business logic of your app. What is more, the suite allows you to choose a licensing option that best fits your project’s needs – open source for your GPLv2-compatible apps, and commercial for your closed-source projects.

Why Choose Telerik's ASP.NET MVC Extensions

Pure ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Components

Telerik offers a toolset of native ASP.NET MVC Extensions. Rather than porting our award-winning ASP.NET AJAX controls, we built the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC from the ground up to fully embrace the principles of the ASP.NET MVC framework, such as lightweight rendering, clean HTML, clear separation of concerns and easy testability. Built with the bare-minimum HTML and drawing on the power of the jQuery JavaScript library, the Extensions deliver advanced visual effects with minimal client-side footprint.

Multiple ViewEngine Support

The Telerik Extensions work with any ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine. In addition to the default ASPX ViewEngine, you can use other ViewEngines that support ASP.NET MVC, such as Razor, Spark or NHaml, without changing any code. The fluent .NET API used to configure the UI Extensions is 100% resusable between the ViewEngines.

True ASP.NET MVC Performance, Only Better

If you have used ASP.NET MVC in your projects before, you have already felt the difference of having no viewstates, postbacks and page lifecycles. We now challenge you to try the additional productivity gains the Telerik Web Asset Managers bring to the platform – they quickly combine, cache, and compress resources for you, thus reducing the number and size of your page requests and granting your app unprecedented responsiveness.

Licensing Options to Best Fit Your Project’s Needs

The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC come in both an open source and a commercial version to help you find the best option for your projects’ requirements. The open source version, available also on CodePlex, provides you with the entire source code and all updates of Telerik’s three major releases every year. This option is the perfect solution for any GPLv2-compatible app. The commercial version offers two additional benefits for your line-of-business applications - access to all of the most up-to-date builds (three major and six service releases a year), as well as to Telerik’s legendary support. For more information, please read our licensing FAQ

180+ Online Examples and a Wealth of Learning Resources

Telerik takes pride in supporting the biggest and most up-to-date collections of learning resources available for developers. Jump-start your ASP.NET MVC development with the abundance of resources, such as online documentation, forums, video tutorials, and code library items. Getting started with the Telerik MVC components is even easier thanks to the 180+ online examples demonstrating best practices in different scenarios.

Vast Community You Can Rely On

One of the biggest and most passionate .NET communities is there to help you whenever you encounter an issue and need a response fast. With over 600,000 forum posts and 500,000 forum members, you can be sure no question will remain unanswered and no query unaddressed.

Long-lasting Commitment to Innovation

Your apps built with Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC will leverage the latest technology trends. At Telerik, we closely follow the release schedule of not only Microsoft's .NET platform and Visual Studio, but also those of all the major browsers. This way we manage to deliver support for all new features as soon as they are introduced.

Professionally-Designed Skins at Your Fingertips

Achieving modern look and feel for your apps with Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC is as easy as setting a single property! Windows 7, Office 2010, Transparent – these and 15 more professionally-designed themes are shipped with the suite to make styling your applications a breeze. What is more, all skins are fully cross-browser compatible and use optimized styling techniques, such as CSS sprites and primitives, to ensure maximum performance. Feeling like designing your own skin? Use our intuitive, web-based Visual Style Builder.

Enhanced Visual Studio Experience

Not only do the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC speed up your development by providing you with the needed functionality out of the box, but they also eliminate any time wasted conducting routine operations in Visual Studio thanks to their Visual Studio Extensions package. Think automatic creation, upgrade, and configuration of your Telerik projects in seconds, as well as ready-to-use Visual Studio templates that cover most common application scenarios. You could also install the Extensions through the NuGet package manager without even having to leave Visual Studio!