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    Progress Telerik

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AWith Telerik UI libraries, Progress aims to equip .NET ninjas with a full arsenal of weapons, helping to create beautiful, modern and future-proof applications quickly and intuitively. The vendor states that with its over 1,250 UI components for all .NET platforms, as well as various themes, skins and customization options, Telerik users report cutting development time by up to 50 percent. Web

    $999

    per developer, royalty-free

    Visual Studio

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    Progress TelerikVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    Individual Product Licence
    $999
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft UI
    $1,299
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft Complete
    $1,499
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft Ultimate
    $2,199
    per developer, royalty-free
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Progress TelerikVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Progress TelerikVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Progress Software
    Chose Progress Telerik
    While the more expensive to use for a small shop(for example syncfusion is free to start), the quality paid for itself in no time flat. Other options are either half baked, have lock in and will become quite expensive once you hit a treshhold, or plain simply didn't mesh with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    Progress Telerik UI provides a large amount of language support, demos, and documentation. While the competition is still great in their own right, Progress Telerik UI has provided enough resources to cover a number of current and future projects without having to expand to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    Telerik Support (pre-progress) is awesome, way better than Infragistics or Syncfusion.
    Syncfusion is a little cheaper.
    They all have Grid components (like Excel) then there are a few edge cases of having different controls to another to show off. Once you know what UI tech you …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    [Progress Telerik UI] had a specific set of controls that were suited directly to our application space. Telerik also provided a Xamarin solution for very similar pricing, which should allow us to speed up our app development.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    Using Progress Telerik UI on the front end and Spring on the back end, you can focus on your business logic in the middle. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. This allows you to focus on what's under the hood. These have both been a pleasure to work with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    We have been implementing our own custom code using the ASP.NET framework, and it has taken us a lot longer to implement functionality. When we transitioned to using Progress Telerik UI components, it exponentially sped up our development time and improved the look of our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    With Progress Telerik UI, didn't really look for alternatives.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    Super easy to use and integrate into Visual Studio. The MVC helpers greatly simplify development. The controls are easy to implement and the online examples are excellent.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    Superior to Dijit, jQuery UI and devart studio. Other tools were evaluated in 2006 prior to the selection of Telerik for our software. Support has been quite good and issues have generally been well handled. Custom coding has been needed for some scenarios like schedule …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    I found Progress Telerik components easier to use than others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Telerik
    Progress Telerik provides mor API options for each component. Also, the documentation is easier to read and search.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Visual Studio
    I have used Visual Studio Code and while powerful, is not the same as the Visual Studio IDE functionality.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
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    96%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
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    100%
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    22 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Best Alternatives
    Progress TelerikVisual Studio
    Small Businesses
    Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
    Score6.1 out of 10
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    D3.js
    Score8.9 out of 10
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Kendo UI
    Score8 out of 10
    WebStorm
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Progress TelerikVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (41 ratings)
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (27 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (28 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Progress TelerikVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Progress Software
    We have used the Telerik UI controls for our Admin user experience. We found that this lead to consistent user experience, with feature rich functions already provided. Effectively this meant that hour for hour, using the Telerik UI improved productivity in creating screens with more functions than using the default controls in ASP.NET. At this point most of our focus with the Telerik controls is User Interface oriented.
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    Microsoft
    It's useful for app development, debugging, and testing. I've been using it for two years and have seen it grow into a fantastic tool. All of the features, NuGet packages, and settings that enable different types of projects are fantastic. It also has a connection to Azure DevOps and Git. It's a fantastic product that's simple to use.
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    Pros
    Progress Software
    • Easy to configure with application.
    • It provides flexibility for complex grid customizations.
    • Takes less time for quick development UI elements.
    • UI is very responsible, which can be viewable in any device.
    • Great support from Telerik team. It only takes 24 to 48 hours to resolve your issues.
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    Microsoft
    • Since Microsoft offers a free Community Edition of the IDE many of our new developers have used it at home or school and are very familiar with the user interface, requiring little training to move up to the paid, enterprise-friendly editions we use.
    • The online community support for Visual Studio is outstanding, as solid or better than any other commercial or open-source project software.
    • Microsoft continuously keeps the product up to date and has maintained a history of doing so. They use it internally for their own development so there is little chance it will ever fall out of favor and become unsupported.
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    Cons
    Progress Software
    • I have not worked with the App Builder but I think a GUI for dragging and dropping components to build a web page would be great.
    • In addition to the app builder there should some tools to design a responsive web application to see the results for different screen sizes.
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    Microsoft
    • Certain settings and features can sometimes be challenging to locate. The interface isn't always intuitive.
    • Sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing. For example, users can quickly add a new workspace in Source Control Explorer when a local path shows as "Not Mapped," but it doesn't indicate that the user might want to check the dropdown list of workspaces. The shortcut of creating a new workspace by clicking on the "Not Mapped" link can lead to developers creating too many workspaces and causing workspace management to become unwieldy. If the shortcut link were removed, the user would be forced to use the Workspace dropdown. While it can add an extra step to the process, workspaces would be managed more easily, and this would enforce consistency. At the very least, there should be a high-level administrative setting to hide the shortcut link.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Progress Software
    The Telerik UI has become part of our staple development tools. We can not be as productive without the feature set available to us in the Telerik UI ASP.NET AJAX control package.
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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    Usability
    Progress Software
    Progress Telerik UI is very usable and one of the best tools to use by the front-end development engineers in our team. It has helped us to improve the overall design of our existing and new applications. Also, the time to build applications has also been reduced effectively and we are able to focus on other areas of improvement to deliver a better user experience for our customers.
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    Microsoft
    The thing I like the most is Visual Studio doesn't suffer from Microsoft's over eager marketing department who feel they need to redesign the UI (think Office and windows) which forces users to loose large amounts of productivity having to learn software that they had previously known.
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    Support Rating
    Progress Software
    Telerik UI support is what you are paying for. If something does not work you ask them for an example of how to solve your use case. The SEO on their sites is awesome and so well bedded into Google. The videos are good, [they're] not used much but their examples and DoJo examples make all the difference.
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    Microsoft
    Between online forums like StackOverflow, online documentation, MSDN forums, and the customer support options, I find it very easy to get support for Visual Studio IDE when I need it. If desired, one can also download the MSDN documentation about the IDE and have it readily available for any support needs.
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    Implementation Rating
    Progress Software
    The controls work very well as long as they are used as intended. Built-in functionality should be used whenever possible,
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Progress Software
    Progress Telerik UI provides a large amount of language support, demos, and documentation. While the competition is still great in their own right, Progress Telerik UI has provided enough resources to cover a number of current and future projects without having to expand to other libraries.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Return on Investment
    Progress Software
    • Telerik enabled us to demonstrate our vision for new flagship software with only a years worth of effort.
    • Telerik provided out of the box solutions for some of our more challenging UI problems.
    • Telerik support has been extremely helpful and critical to our success.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • We've had hundreds of hours saved by the rapid development that Visual Studio provides.
    • We've lost some time in the Xamarin updates. However, being cross platform, we ultimately saved tons of time not having to create separate apps for iOS and Android.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Progress Telerik Screenshots

    Screenshot of Easily create eye-catching and full-featured user interface for web, mobile and desktop by selecting from our rich library of components. Use advanced features like our grid component to create tables that display data in a wide range of formats from both local and remote sources.Screenshot of Create rich dashboard applications by taking advantage of the breadth of UI widgets available within the Telerik UI toolset. Easily wire up the UI controls to any backend to display any and all kind of data that you need to surface in your applications.Screenshot of Need to add reporting and analytics capabilities to your applications? Telerik Reporting is a complete, lightweight .NET embedded reporting tool for web and desktop applications. Use Telerik Reporting to create, style, view and export rich, interactive and reusable reports to attractively and beautifully present analytical and business data.Screenshot of With Telerik UI for Xamarin you can build native iOS and Android applications, with rich user experience and outstanding performance. Enjoy all the components you need to build your mobile application.Screenshot of Build modern desktop applications with Telerik UI for WinForms and Telerik UI for WPF. The most complete desktop UI suites, with rich feature set and modern look and feel.Product screenshot