Third party WPF controls: Devexpress vs Telerik [c

Question

I would like to hear your opinion about the two control providers.

To put it in a nutshell: I am building a classic LOB desktop application. The app will be created entirely in WPF. PRISM 4.0 will be used heavily. Whenever possible, I will try to follow MVVM pattern(it would be nice if the selected controls were designed to adopt it easily).

Mainly I am interested in:

• Good data grid, which supports sorting, filtering, grouping, exporting, printing and works fine with a big amount of bound records(10k+)

  Combobox that supports filtering and auto-complete.

  Navigation bar

  Layout manager that is similar to the one that is used VS 2010

In a long term, I would also like to use their:

• Report tools

  "Data mining" controls

  Localization support in order to localize data grid actions for instance,..

I have been using Winforms Devxpress for a while and I was quite satisfied. Their support team is great. Still, I want to check if there is any better option on the market. In other words, I would like to know if Telerik's controls have any additional value?

Answer 1

I am using Telerik and DEVExpress both. Based on my experience, DevExpress is better in win form controls. But, Telerik is more better than in Asp.NET controls. DevExpress rendering result on the server controls are very messy in client site. They create button control using the table tag.