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by emp_ 4257 days ago
In the past 8 years I've been involved in more projects to remove Telerik than to use it. The performance and long term maintenability of these drag and drop with no code! components are never well advertised. But I guess it solved a massive issue when companies thought design was cheaper with a consistent skin, forgetting that their programmers would still need to layout everything.
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I'm using the Telerik Reporting product. I have to agree that the promoted drag and drop approach is pretty pathetic. Though using it at a programmable level hasn't been too bad. I've been able to do most things I've needed to do without too much heartache.
We briefly evaluated Telerik Reporting, but when a support technician during a technical conversation referred to 16,000 rows as "a large data set" that pretty much turned us off to it.