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Easily and Quickly Add Advanced Functionality to Your Websites
May 13, 2021

Easily and Quickly Add Advanced Functionality to Your Websites

Gary Davis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Telerik UI

The Progress Telerik UI controls are used on several mostly e-commerce websites. It allows easy design and implementation of web pages, such as side settings and admin pages, as well as checkout and search results.

Progress Telerik UI's support of accessibility requirements such as keyboard shortcuts and screen-reader is essential.
  • Use of the grid, combo box, numeric controls for checkout display, and edit of shopping cart
  • The grid control is useful for display of product lists and search results
  • The combo box and dropdown list controls are useful in user profile settings
  • Some of the controls have so many features, use of documentation may be required to identify required attributes.
  • Setting up a grid with master and child hierarchy and other grid features like filtering and sub-setting can be challenging
  • There are many examples on the Progress Telerik UI website to help with understanding but due to the features available, finding an example that matches the requirements of your design may be impossible.
  • Use of the controls throughout your application will allow for consistency for your users
  • Accessibility support will help your users to successfully navigate your website.
  • Using the controls will, in general, speed up implementation so developers don't need to spend time re-inventing available features such as in-line editing of grid cells.
The existing Microsoft technologies already support many of the controls provided by Progress Telerik UI and may be used as an alternative, of course. They will not have the full-featured functionality you will find in Progress Telerik UI but are available. There are also other companies with similar products, such as Infragistics, which can be investigated.
Progress Telerik UI customer support is pretty good. The ticketing system allows a thread of questions, answers, and attachments of code and screenshots. Response time is fairly quick and often has code snippets or pointers to online examples that could be relevant.

There is a large amount of community support forums to get answers or post questions. In addition there is a forum of posted code samples for the various controls.

The Progress update tool easily tells you what products have been updated and allows you to install the updates on your development system. Release notes can be displayed to see what's new.




There is a learning curve for some of the controls that are full-featured, such as the grid control. Fortunately, online documentation and examples of working samples smooth this curve.
Progress Telerik UI support of several Microsoft technologies such as MVC, ASPNet web forms, Blazor, DotNet Core, JavaScript, WCF, etc. eases cross-development. The controls are updated at least quarterly and available as NuGet packages to allow you to easily update your project with current versions which may add new functionality and/or fixes.