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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Progress Kendo UI

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AKendo UI is a JavaScript UI toolkit that allows users to build responsive web-based apps integrated into their framework of choice (jQuery, Angular, React, or Vue). The vendor’s value proposition is that Kendo UI offers a large library of popular and configurable components ranging from sophisticated grids and charts to basic buttons, so users don’t have to waste development time building their UI. The vendor also says the large library of customizable themes means users can easily deploy a…

    $999

    per developer, royalty-free

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Visual Studio Code, an open source text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

    $0

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    Progress Kendo UIMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Editions & Modules
    Kendo UI with Priority Support
    $999
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft UI
    $1,299
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft Complete
    $1,499
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft Ultimate
    $2,199
    per developer, royalty-free
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    Progress Kendo UIMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Progress Kendo UIMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
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    Progress Software
    Chose Progress Kendo UI
    We currently use data tables in most of our applications that require a grid to be able to asynchronously perform CRUD operations on our web applications. It has served us well but Kendo UI has more widgets and better documentation to get the job done. Given the time, we would …
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    We wanted to use software which is easy to learn and implement for UI. we did some research and used few controls and we found that we can go with kendo UI. Look and feel wise Kendo fits perfectly. so we decided to use it through out the product. it is good software in …
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    Chose Progress Kendo UI
    At the time of initial purchase, Kendo UI provided a more robust set of UI tools than other vendors.
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    We honestly didn't look at very many others, we asked other people who work on similar tasks in the area and made our selection based off of their recommendations of Telerik and our experience using the open-source components for a trial. When Telerik/Kendo got the job done …
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    Chose Progress Kendo UI
    Kendo is easy to set up and upgrade. It is easy to use for developers and we can make attractive UI, so it automatically increases business.
    Kendo UI provides more control on UI fields as it has various properties associated with it. We can use the mask property for accepting …
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    I did not participate in the evaluation team for this tool. But I'm very happy with its general results. Right now we are not thinking about replacing it.
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    At the time of our product selection we identified better cross-browser compatibility and we estimated that turnaround for support was superior. At the time, the vendor had a higher positive feedback footprint among their user community.
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    I have no experience with other commercial web UI libraries. I just tried some free alternatives but all of them lack the breadth of components and the support of a commercial tool.
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    We have tried Component One's stuff as well as jQuery UI. Component One is good for their grids, but it is easy to get behind with them. jQuery UI just looks stodgy. We also looked at EXT for a bit, but it was too proprietary.

    I have worked with Angular Material and Bootstrap …
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    Chose Progress Kendo UI
    We went with Kendo after evaluating the different options because Telerik has a good reputation in the .Net developer world, and the initial review showed that Kendo would be easier to use and look better with minimal effort on our part. In the end it came down to the fact …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Progress Kendo UIMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (177 ratings)
    9.5
    (104 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (38 ratings)
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
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    Configurability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    8.2
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Progress Kendo UIMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Progress Software
    It allows us to extend the components or create new components in an easy way. The control suite is complete and powerful enough that you do not need to consider other competing packages. The controls are relatively easy to implement and when we ran into problems the documentation and online support were very reliable.
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    As a general workhorse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Codee is unmatched. Building on the early success of applications such as Atom, it has long been the standard for electron based IDEs. It can be outshone using IDEs that are dedicated to particular platforms, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code for .net and the Jetbrains IDEs for Java, Python and others. For remote collaborative development, something like Zed is ahead of VSCode live share, which can be quite flakey.
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    Pros
    Progress Software
    • Kendo UI controls provides rich set of features and capability that is required for enterprise products.
    • Performance of controls are satisfactory overall though few other vendors provides extraordinary performance for specific controls and for specific purpose. Kendo UI provides most of the required controls and with rich feature that made us to select Kendo UI controls for our development.
    • Kendo UI controls quality, in terms of performance, robustness and well defined interfaces are very positive notes.
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    • Integrate with the git repository very well.
    • Integrated copilot chat is very helpful to write code snippets and helps beginners to start with coding and development.
    • Great library of available extensions is one of the best features in Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
    • Dedicated Testing option to configure pytest and others are quite handy to use.
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    Cons
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    • Kendo UI is always moving forward and staying current with latest development trends. While that is beneficial, that can cause some issues when supporting customers (particularly government) that don't move their IT infrastructure along nearly as fast. A prime example is web font icons. Great and easy to use, but where Kendo UI utilizes web font icons as the sole means of displaying an icon, not all organizations (again, especially government) allow the use of these. There have been times where Kendo UI became unusable and we had to downgrade to a version a few years old. Makes continued payment for licenses sometimes feel wasted as we may not be able to always use the new releases
    • Kendo UI has a wonderful feedback system and they do indeed listen to the community. However, there do seem to be some instances where there is large support for a new feature/component and it never gets addressed. It is easy to understand that not all ideas are easy or even prudent to implement, but would be nice to see a better follow-up on ideas with a current status
    • Refreshing Kendo UI grids is simple, yet the standard API method causes the grid to return to the default state. We have many use cases where we would love to update the grid data but need current grid state (such as expanded detail rows, sorts, filters, etc) preserved after the grid is updated so that users do not have to perform grid actions again to return to the desired state.
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    • The customization of key combinations should be more accessible and easier to change
    • The auxiliary panels could be minimized or as floating tabs which are displayed when you click on them
    • A monitoring panel of resources used by Microsoft Visual Studio Code or plugins and extensions would help a lot to be able to detect any malfunction of these
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Progress Software
    Nothing better has come along. I'm always on the lookout for new UI libraries and I have tried most of them. Kendo has done a good job of keeping my business. They aren't perfect, but no one has done it better as far as I can tell. I'll keep a look out and my rating may change in the future if they get complacent.
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    Microsoft
    Solid tool that provides everything you need to develop most types of applications. The only reason not a 10 is that if you are doing large distributed teams on Enterprise level, Professional does provide more tools to support that and would be worth the cost.
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    Usability
    Progress Software
    it's easy to implement in applications. The kendo widgets are able to be used in almost any type of business application which has a UI. For most part, once the developer has completed a project which uses Kendo, many time code can be copy/paste into a new application. Kendo UI documentation keeps improving so finding the answers to questions can be easy
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code earns a 10 for its exceptional balance of power and simplicity. Its intuitive interface, robust extension ecosystem, and integrated terminal streamline development. With seamless Git integration and highly customizable settings, it adapts perfectly to any workflow, making complex coding tasks feel effortless for beginners and experts alike.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Progress Software
    The errors that we have detected were not of great importance and the online support provided a temporary solution until the next release.
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    Overall, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty reliable. Every so often, though, the app will experience an unexplained crash. Since it is a stand-alone app, connectivity or service issues don't occur in my experience. Restarting the app seems to always get around the problem, but I do make sure to save and backup current work.
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    Performance
    Progress Software
    Reports sometimes take a bit of time to load
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    Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty snappy in performance terms. It launches quickly, and tasks are performed quickly. I don't have a lot of integrations other than CoPilot, but I suspect that if the integration partner is provisioned appropriately that any performance impact would be pretty minimal. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles (unless you start adding plugins left and right).
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    Support Rating
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    Overall, we are satisfied with the support offered by the Progress Kendo UI team. We had raised few helpline incidents in the past and they have been resolved timely by the team. Also, we were satisfied with the level of information and support provided by the team.
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    Microsoft
    Active development means filing a bug on the GitHub repo typically gets you a response within 4 days. There are plugins for almost everything you need, whether it be linting, Vim emulation, even language servers (which I use to code in Scala). There is well-maintained official documentation. The only thing missing is forums. The closest thing is GitHub issues, which typically has the answers but is hard to sift through -- there are currently 78k issues.
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    Implementation Rating
    Progress Software
    it took me about one day to make the components available for all the team members, including a quick demo, parallel setup in everyone’s workstation and packages deployment into our nuget server after 3 days of one to one support, everyone was able to use the components or find help in the documentation or resuest support
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    At the time of our product selection we identified better cross-browser compatibility and we estimated that turnaround for support was superior. At the time, the vendor had a higher positive feedback footprint among their user community.
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    Microsoft
    Visual Studio Code stacks up nicely against Visual Studio because of the price and because it can be installed without admin rights. We don't exclusively use Visual Studio Code, but rather use Visual Studio and Visual Studio code depending on the project and which version of source control the given project is wired up to.
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    Scalability
    Progress Software
    Never faced a problem even when we threw a large amount of data at it
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    It is easily deployed with our Jamf Pro instance. There is actually very little setup involved in getting the app deployed, and it is fairly well self-contained and does not deploy a large amount of associated files. However, it is not particularly conducive to large project, multi-developer/department projects that involve some form of central integration.
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    Return on Investment
    Progress Software
    • Kendo UI has saved us a ton of time in development.
    • We were able to get certain things to market faster due to the fact that we didn't have to piece multiple libraries together like is so common with modern web development.
    • Because of the price of the library, however, we have not been able to purchase upgrades every year.
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    • Saves money by replacing suites of tools such as Visual Studio, IntelliJ, etc.
    • Speeds development time and developer environment setup time
    • Strengthens code quality with integrated autoformatting and linting
    • Strengths Git practices by keeping version control tightly connected with the code
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    Screenshot of Our extensive library provides you with the tools you need to easily control your app and display data in whatever format you need. Our advanced Sass Themebuilder lets you take any of our stock library themes and modify it to precisely match your brand requirements. Enhance your customer’s user experience with seamlessly integrated Kendo UI components.Screenshot of Easily create eye-catching and full-featured user interfaces by selecting from our rich library of components. Use advanced features like our grid component to create tables that display data in a wide range of formats from both local and remote sources.  We support popular frameworks like jQuery, Angular, React, Vue, and others so you can integrate our Kendo UI components into whatever environment you choose.Screenshot of Create rich dashboard applications by taking advantage of the breadth of UI widgets available within the Kendo UI toolset. Easily wire up the UI widgets to any existing RESTful API and backend to display any and all kind of data that you need to surface in your applications.Screenshot of Combine existing HTML elements and styling alongside with the Kendo UI components to create the exact kind of user interface that your users are requesting. The Kendo UI widgets can be dropped in to any existing application and be added widget-by-widget to ensure that adding the rich Kendo UI components can be done in a timely manner without disrupting existing app dev workflows.