How to use Kendo UI MVC Extensions with require js?

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I have a controller that looks like this:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Mvc;

using Kendo.Mvc.Extensions;
using Kendo.Mvc.UI;

namespace KendoMvcApplication.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public ActionResult GetData([DataSourceRequest] DataSourceRequest req)
        {
            var products = CreateProducts();
            var result = products.ToDataSourceResult(req);
            return Json(result);
        }     

        private static IEnumerable CreateProducts()
        {
            for (int i = 1; i <= 20; i++)
            {
                yield return new Product
                {
                    ProductId = i,
                    ProductName = "Product " + i,
                    ProductPrice = i * 2.5
                };
            }
        }
    }

    public class Product
    {
        public int ProductId { get; set; }
        public string ProductName { get; set; }
        public double ProductPrice { get; set; }
    }
}

And a view that looks like this:

And my directory structure is:

Scripts/kendo-ui/* (all the kendo files, including the mvc one)
Scripts/require.js
Scripts/jquery-2.0.3.min.js

which nearly works except that server-side sorting doesn't get applied.

This is because the kendo.aspnet.mvc.min.js file is never downloaded (of course, as require JS doesn't know anything about it) so to remedy that I tried this:

But that produced this error:

split configuration error

And attempted to load the js files thus:

try 1 files

The red spots are 404 not found as it is looking for the js files in a folder called kendo under the scripts folder.

So then I thought I would try including the all version instead so I tried this:

But that produced these errors:

ASP NET MVC Errors

And attempted to load the js files thus:

case 2 files

In this case - the red spots are 404 not found as it is looking for the files directly under the Scripts folder.

So here is my question:

How can I include said file in a require JS type scenario?

Aside: I would like to be using the kendo.all.min file and not the separate ones as I want to use knockout-kendo in the future and that seems to not work with the separate file but if the only way to make this work is to use the separate file approach, that is fine.

Ohlin · Accepted Answer

It took me a while to get your code working but after having been fiddling around with it a little I managed to get the sorting to work with just a tiny little change in your original code.

The only thing I changes was on the require line where I added the mvc file as well. Then all the paths became correct and it all worked out fine.

['jquery', 'kendo/kendo.grid.min', 'kendo/kendo.aspnetmvc.min']

In my code I've used "Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC Q2 2013" with the jQuery.min.js file that was included in that package. The complete View code then becomes:

I hope it'll work in your code as well.

How to use Kendo UI MVC Extensions with require js?

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