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David Thielen
David Thielen

Reputation: 32966

Does Kendo include a MVC framework, data handlers, etc?

We are trying different JavaScript libraries. The one I just completed is Sencho Ext JS and it is pretty much everything. It has controls, a MVC framework, data handlers, etc. I'm diving into Kendo and it looks like it is mostly UI controls, working with JQuery.

Is this correct? And if so, for the MVC framework & data binding, is there any libraries that work best with Kendo?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (1)

CodingWithSpike
CodingWithSpike

Reputation: 43728

Kendo UI includes

  • UI Widgets
  • MVVM Framework (client-side)
  • SPA Framework

It also has an ASP.NET MVC Server Wrappers available as an optional package (that is also an additional cost). This provides a .NET library that can be used to add server-side data paging, filtering, and sorting to your MVC controller actions. This works best if you are using Linq queries (or Entity Framework). It also provides a set of Razor functions that can generate the JavaScript to initialize Kendo UI widgets.

For an example of the MVC Server Wrappers in use, have a look at the Sales Hub sample project.

Though, to be honest, I recommend just using JavaScript to init the widgets instead of the Razor helper functions. However the DataSourceRequest and DataSourceResponse classes provided by the MVC server wrappers are very useful.

Upvotes: 1

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