Telerik UI Tools and the Spark 4.5 Platform

Hi,

I'm a developer using the Telerik UI tools and I need to migrate my projects to Spark 4.5. My question is if I use Spark to generate the applications layer, can I use its objects with Telerik user interface controls?

You know Telerik developed user control for all platform like WPF, MVC, ASP.NET, etc.
Please take a look at http://www.telerik.com/

The second question is, do I have all patterns and how dofactory creates the layers before I start migrating my application?
Or can I work directly with Spark without knowing much about its inner workings?

Thanks
Mohamed

Cairo Isc, Oct 27, 2013

Reply 1

I can answer your first question about the Telerik UI tools, that yes, you should be able to use them without issues. I am specifically talking about the Kendo UI widgets. I don't use the Ajax toolset much anymore since I moved to MVC, and I don't really build WinForms or WPF applications much either.

But if you are building web applications, then you should have no problem using the Kendo UI widgets with this framework as they are specifically UI tools that point to whatever backend you are using.

For your second answer, I would go with Jack's answer.

I hope this helps.

King Wilder

King Wilder, Sep 21, 2014

Reply 2

Hello Mohamed:

Unfortunately, we're not familiar with the Telerik UI tools.

The advantage of the Spark Platform is that it makes it very easy (and fast) to get data in and out the database.
It presents the data in the form of 'Active Record' business objects.

If the Telerik UI controls are expecting to receive data from some external source, then Spark will a perfect partner for these tools. However, if these controls also handle the back-end and data access processes (which I doubt) then there may be a 'conflict of interest'. At that point you will need to decide who will take on the data access responsibilities. But again, I doubt this is the case.

As far as your second question, there is no requirement that you have an in-dept understanding of the Spark internals to be able to benefit form the the Spark Platform. Having said this, I would still suggest that you get a reasonable understanding of what is going on for two reasons: 1) you will be more confident working with Spark, and 2) it is a powerful and valuable learning experience that will allow you to grow much further as a .NET developer.

Hope this helps.
Jack Poorte

Jack Poorte, Oct 27, 2013