[Solved] Support for MVC 4

[Grant]

Hi Guys,

Are there any plans for a beta release of some kind supporting MVC 4?
Or can the current release be used with it already or is there someway I can set things up to use it.?

Thanks in advance!

[nachid]

two months ago, i was wondering the same here
No answer but I am quite sure the team are working on it

[Dimo]

Hello,

MVC4 is still at a  very early stage of its development (CTP), according to the MVC team themselves, and the official release date is rather unclear. As a result, we cannot commit a specific timeframe for a release that will officially support MVC4 either. Surely the Q3 2011 release (due in November) will not include anything MVC4-specific and we do not test regularly against the new framework version at this point.

Regards,
Dimo
the Telerik team

[Brad]

I successfully installed the Q2 release on MVC4 using NuGet.  The only issue I've encountered so far is that the CSS compression had to be turned off...not sure what the conflict was.  

[Kevin Tory]

Can we get an update on this?  Any formal support yet?

[Georgi Tunev]

Hi Kevin,

 Currently there are no known compatibility issues with MVC4. Did you encounter some problem? If so, please provide more details so we can investigate.

Kind regards,
Georgi Tunev
the Telerik team

[Dominic]

Hello,

it seems there is a problem with date values and globalization inside the grid. -> "The field xxx must be a date".
In MVC 3 everything works fine.

Regards

[Georgi Tunev]

Hi Dominic,

We are not aware of such problem and we were not able to reproduce it locally. Could you please provide a sample project so we can investigate further?

Regards,
Georgi Tunev
the Telerik team

[Dominic]

Hi Georgi,

please look at the attached project and click Edit -> Save.

[Daniel]

Hi Grant,

I confirmed that there is a strange behaviour of the client validation. At least for now it seems that the format in which the dates are send is changed.
However, it is too soon to investigate the exact cause since the implementation may be modified by the time of the official release. A workaround for now is to set the culture by using the Localizable method or modifying the jquery.validate script file so that dates are recognized properly.
I also noted a few other things that may be causing problems in the projects you send us:

1. To use localization you should add the localization resource files to the App_GlobalResources folder.
2. To use Combination of the scripts or styles you should register the asset HTTP handler.

Greetings,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Carl]

Will Telerik be releasing an update with a binary intended for MVC 4?  What about for compatibility/interoperability with the new ASP.NET Web API beta? 

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

Right now there doesn't seem to be a need to release a MVC 4 binary because the MVC 3 one works as expected.

We haven't done anything to integrate with the Web API beta. What kind of integration would you need? We need to investigate the possibilities first.

Kind regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Dadv]

Hi,
In my case it could be a good thing if telerik mvc could use the web api syntax for paging and sorting :

api/products?$skip=2&$top=2&$orderby=Title

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 Thank you for your feedback! We will log this in our TODO list for further investigation. 

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Carl]

Well, since there always seem to be some glitches that appear over time, it would seem prudent to split a branch for MVC 4 so that the older branch for MVC 3 remains independent for those devs who need it to remain as is for MVC 3 ....

However, for those of us who are planning to migrate to MVC 4 (and leave behind MVC 3 in the past), the most simple question would be: Will the Telerik Extensions for MVC 4 "play together nicely" with the new Microsoft MVC 4 and ASP.NET Web API?  Can a single application be built that intermingles both approaches without one interfering with the other?  Even if the claims argue that they are supposed to work together, it still has to be tested and proven that they work together.

And, by the way, where is KendoUI in this discussion?  What will be the relationships between Telerik Extensions for MVC 4 and KendoUI?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi,

 We will probably introduce a MVC4 build when there are MVC4 specific features. 

 The Grid ajax binding makes Ajax requests to action methods and should not interfere with the Web API beta. We have not yet tested if the MVC grid can be bound using the Web API infrastructure.

 As for Kendo UI you can check our FAQ.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Jacob]

Hi.

We are currently trying to move from MVC 3 to MVC 4 and we are using the Telerik grid and date controls. We have installed the MVC 4 side-by-side with the MVC 3 and after a while (resolving the known issues by MVC 4 team) we managed to get the site up-and-running still using MVC 3, and everything works as expected; that is, including the Telerik components. However, when we reference the MVC 4 assemblies and configure the site - according the the MVC 4 release notes - to run MVC 4 we seem to get an issue with the Telerik components.

The site throws the well-known "Index out of range" exception with the following source code highlighted...

Line 202:   
Line 203:    @* Styling for calendar control and more *@
Line 204: @(Html.Telerik().StyleSheetRegistrar()
Line 205: .DefaultGroup(group => group   
Line 206: .Add("telerik.common.css")

To see the stack trace please see attached screen dump.

Is this a known issue, or could it be something that we have missed? If it is a known issue, then when do you expect to be able to support this?

Best regards,
Jacob.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 No, this is not a known issue. Find attached a working ASP.NET MVC 4 project.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Deepak]

I tried adding a DatePicker to an MVC 4 Razor View but got the following error:

Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support property or method 'tDatePicker'

However, I don't see this error in an MVC 3 project.  Is this a known issue?  I'm running version 2012.01.229.0.

Thanks much.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 The project that I attached in my previous reply shows the DatePicker working in a MVC 4 application.

 Since the topic digressed too much from the original I will lock this forum thread. Feel free to start new ones.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team