Thursday, September 10, 2009

RadUpload, ASP.net AJAX Upload -- Telerik Controls Are Obsolete and Low Quality!

ASP.Net AJAX: Upload is rapidly becoming obsolete.

I have stopped recommending this product to clients and for our own internal projects.

Unless there are plans (real serious plans) to add Web Farm and Load Balancing support to ASP.Net AJAX: Upload by enabling a database or shared file system location for buffering and progress management, I will be abandoning ASP.Net AJAX: Upload.

I have spoken to a number of other users who are in the same boat.  The long-term problem we face is what to do with our Telerik subscriptions after we have stopped using the primary components. 

Replacing things like drop-downs with Open Source and paying for a one-component (but high quality) Upload widget seems like a better option.

Thoughts?  Does Telerik have enough resources to produce high quality individual control feature sets?  Or is the goal many pretty components with so-so features?

2 comments:

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Todd Anglin said...

Just ran across your blog post. Very sorry to hear you've had a bad experience with Telerik. Feel free to email me directly (anglin [at] telerik) and share any feedback you have. I know it's been a while since you wrote this, but hopefully we can still help you with your projects.

We definitely work hard to support as many scenarios as possible and make the value of the Telerik subscription second-to-none.

-Todd Anglin
Chief Evangelist, Telerik