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• Xander

  
  15 Dec 2011 (Link to this post)

  I'm embarking on a big ASP.NET MVC web application development project in early January and although I was previously set on using the Telerik ASP.NET MVC Extensions, I am now wondering whether using Kendo would actually be better? Better in the sense of a nicer UI with a better future growth path. This particular application is the back-office component of a LOB application and does not require mobile support, although partial mobile support in future should probably not be ruled out.
  
  I've read the MVC FAQ here: http://www.kendoui.com/faq/mvc-faq.aspx and note that ASP.NET MVC wrappers will be provided in future, but I need to start soon.
  
  As the server side technology has to be ASP.NET MVC (WCF is also an option), I require some solid examples of using Kendo with ASP.NET MVC showing menus, grids, forms and comprehensive CRUD operations. I may be missing them, but are there any comprehensive Kendo + ASP.NET MVC examples available for study yet?
  
  I think having such examples would greatly promote adoption of Kendo by ASP.NET MVC developers. In fact a separate forum for Kendo + ASP.NET MVC might be a good idea.
  
  Thanks in advance
• Vesselin Obreshkov

  
  19 Dec 2011 (Link to this post)

  All you need to know is how to work well with JSON and you should be good to go. MVC Helpers will definitely make coding a bit easier but there's no reason why you can't start using Kendo now. I am just finishing up an app built using the Telerik Extensions but had Kendo been announced when I started, I wouldn't have thought twice. You can use Telerik and Kendo side-by-side if you need to but if you're starting a new project, I'd brush up on my JSON, HTML5 (and polyfills) skills and just go with Kendo.
• Answered John DeVight

  
  22 Feb 2012 (Link to this post)

  Hi Xander,
  
  I've just posted a sample application at: Kendo UI ASP.NET Sample Applications and an article about it at: Kendo UI and ASP.NET MVC : Building a Task Manager.
  
  Let me know if you have any questions...
  
  Regards,
  
  John DeVight
• Xander

  
  22 Feb 2012 (Link to this post)

  Thanks John, that will indeed be very helpful and I will definitely study it. Vesselin, thanks for your comments too, they were helpful.
  
  I also noticed that MS has a new Single Page Application (SPA) template in the new ASP.NET MVC4 Beta that uses Knockout.js + Upshot.js + the new ASP.NET Web API. I suspect that Kendo will fit nicely into that template/architecture as well, so you guys might want to consider an example using that template as well.
  
  See: http://www.asp.net/single-page-application
  
  Regards
• Long

  
  14 Apr 2012 (Link to this post)

  fully documented on Kendo UI with complete server side processing with MVC, EF4 and Dynamic LINQ:
  
  http://blog.longle.net/2012/04/13/teleriks-html5-kendo-ui-grid-with-server-side-paging-sorting-filtering-with-mvc3-ef4-dynamic-linq/#comments