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Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core (ext.net)
17 points by andrey_ch 2267 days ago
5 comments
aespinoza 2267 days ago
I was a big supporter of what the Ext.net engineers do, and in a way I still do. Their tech is very professional and stable.

I stopped using them right after the price hike. IMHO, it is overpriced. Since I can get most of the same stuff done with other frameworks and mostly for free.

Nevertheless, their work on https://bridge.net/ is awesome.

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geoffreymcgill 2267 days ago
Cool. Thanks for the excellent feedback! Bridge was so much fun to build. Hopefully, we'll get to take another big crack at the project again.
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thunderbong 2267 days ago
This looks identical to the Sencha products [0]. Especially, their ExtJs framework [1].

Both the name and even their examples [2] look practically like copies. Although, ExtJs does seem more fleshed out and way more full fledged [3]. They seem to have bindings with other frameworks too, like React and Angular [4].

The ExtJs framework started as an open source project ages ago. Is this some kind of a fork from then?

[0]: https://www.sencha.com

[1]: https://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/

[2]: https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/7.2.0/examples/kitchensink...

[3]: https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/7.2.0/

[4]: https://www.sencha.com/products/

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geoffreymcgill 2267 days ago
Ext.NET includes Ext JS (currently, v7.1.0) as its client-side component UI. The new Ext.NET 7.0 release provides 100% coverage of all Sencha Ext JS components to use in ASP.NET Core apps, such as Razor Pages or MVC.

Release info: https://ext.net/download/#version

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vmsp 2267 days ago
They seem to be related, there's a FAQ entry that mentions Sencha Ext JS.

https://ext.net/faq/

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aespinoza 2266 days ago
And this is why Ext.Net is so expensive. Sencha is the one who decided to hike the price.
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grugagag 2267 days ago
Can anyone explain what EXT.NET is/does? On the product page it doesn’t describe itself.

Did you used it? What was the experience? Etc

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uk_programmer 2267 days ago
It is a UI Widget Library for the Web. It helps with RAD style development.
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andrey_ch 2267 days ago
See it in action here: https://examples.ext.net/

No official examples are published for ASP.NET Core, but it's coming.

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nightski 2267 days ago
I find providing official titles for things including words such as "legacy", "modern", and "classic" is a little folly since whatever you call "modern" becomes legacy or classic sooner than you might imagine.
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andrey_ch 2267 days ago
Today Ext.NET announced support of ASP.NET Core with a completely rearchitectured engine optimized for high load and better performance.
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