Item: Progress Telerik
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Telerik

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've used Progress Telerik for several MAUI and WinUI3 apps. We've found it very helpful for controls like rich text editing and tabs that seem common but for some reason do not have great tooling built-in (or in the community toolkit). So ultimately, we used Progress Telerik to plug the gap in several different platforms where the built-in tooling was not sufficient.

Pros and Cons

Pros

The Rich Text Editor on desktop is fantastic
The control styles are easy to customize
Controls work well out of the box while still allowing for a certain amount of customization

Cons

Native and community toolkit controls are more intuitive to customize. We found that if we are doing deep customization, Progress Telerik controls do not always behave the way you would expect.

Return on Investment

We've tried other third party controls (syncfusion, etc.) and burned significant time trying to get them to work. Progress Telerik is the only one that stuck. Developer time on this kind of thing is rather expensive, I don't have hard numbers but spending dozens of hours on a product that doesn't do what you want is not great.

Usability

Easy out-of-the-box setup, wide range of helpful controls

Alternatives Considered

Syncfusion® Essential Studio®

We didn't use SyncFusion for long. We found that if you did anything custom, the controls simply didn't behave the way you would expect. Very annoying for us.

Key Insights

Do you think Progress Telerik delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Progress Telerik's feature set?

Yes

Did Progress Telerik live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Progress Telerik go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Progress Telerik again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio

Likelihood to Recommend

Progress Telerik is, in my opinion, easily the best third-party for out-of-the-box controls and has a wide range of useful controls across many platforms.
If your scenario is simple and you need powerful and professional tooling, Progress Telerik is the way to go.
In scenarios where deep customization/integration is needed, I would recommend using native or community toolkit controls.

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Powerful easy-to-implement controls across many platforms