How to extend Kendo UI MVC controls on the client side?

[NerdBrick]

I can follow the help topic on how to extend the Kendo UI widgets here, but I'm looking for how to do a similar thing for MVC Controls. 

If an MVC control has been initialized and rendered into the page's partial view, how can I tell the MVC control to use my Kendo Widget which was inherited from the original control?

Thank you

[Dimitar]

Hello Brick,

If you need to create a custom HtmlHelper that can accept additional configuration options, then you should use the following approach:

public static class MyHtmlHelperExtensions
{
  public static Kendo.Mvc.UI.Fluent.GridBuilder<T> MyGrid<T>(this HtmlHelper helper, string name)
    where T : class
  {
    return helper.Kendo().Grid<T>()
      .Name(name)
 // More options
  }
}

Then, the extended widget can be initialized in the view as follows:

@(Html.MyGrid<ProductViewModel>("GridCustom")
    ...
)

Additional information about the different Builders can be found in the Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC Documentation.

Regards,
Dimitar
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