08/26/2010 04:47:59 AM EST

Don't bother wasting your time or money on Telerik's .NET Controls. They are ill conceived, poorly designed and badly implemented. When I pay $799 for a set of controls, I expect them to be robust, work correctly (and as documented), be well supported & well documented, and have some acceptable level of performance. Telerik's .NET Controls are anything but! **Many of the property/event/method names are misleading and accompanied by useless or no descriptions. **Many of the more useful serverside events do not respond or even produce a postback. **The documentation barely covers a subset of the functionality claimed in the sales literature. **Tech support responds in 24hrs at best and frequently well over 48 hrs, and is manned by overworked idiots who don't know the product well. There is not even an option for phone support at ANY price. **Any useful functionality requires 12 pages of code (on both the clientside and serverside) to accomplish. **Telerik controls do not work or play well with other 3rd party products. Don't try to use them on the same page with anything other than Telerik or standard ASP controls. **RadAjax doesn't work for crap. Tech Support always tells you to use the Standard ASP updatePanel instead. **RadScheduler won't schedule outside of the very limited intended use. (In spite of all the extraneous properties/methods & events supplied, most of which don't work.) **RadGrid, inspite of a plethora or properties, is less useful than the standard ASP DataGrid. **The lisat goes on and on, and I've only been using the product for about 5 days! All in all, I wasted $799 on this piece of crap. I thought Infragistics was problematic, but in comparison to Telerik, they shine a halo!

United StatesRick Riedel