[Solved] MVC3 extensions v AJAX

[Rob]

I see that Telerik have two products that are of interest to me...

1) ASP.NET AJAX and

2) ASP.NET MVC Extensions.

From their web site, it would appear that the 2nd option (MVC) is not a port of the 1st option, but a re-write from the ground up, which makes me believe that you would typically pick one or the other?

I plan on creating a new MVC 3 project, therefore it would seem that option 2 is the best fit.

However, within my site, I do not want to round-trip to the server regularly after an entity is created, modified or deleted, therefore I need some AJAX capability.  Does the MVC Extensions provide some form of Ajax support, if yes, does it support JSON and/or XML?  

Additionally our services are currently written using 'WCF', so the initial page creation loads in to the model the results from the services, but when it comes to AJAX, are you aware how easily it is to use a WCF service to provide the data (are there any articles etc).

Thanks,
Rob.

[Georgi Tunev]

Hi Rob,

Yes, you could use the Ajax functionality that is embedded in ASP.NET MVC or jQuery's one - our components can work with both. More information on the subject is available in the documentation and the demos. For example you could check these demos:

http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/grid/ajaxbinding
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/grid/webservice


Best wishes,
Georgi Tunev
the Telerik team