Telerik RadInput control not that impressive
I posted before about Telerik controls. They look pretty good, but after working with them for awhile I started finding little things that looks like they haven’t finish the product. For example, one of this problems is their TextBox called RadInput. Looks great don’t get me wrong, but there is no much you can do with it besides setting a Mask for the user to restrict input on that textbox. Telerik claims all controls has Ajax build in, but their RadInput control does not. In order to make it work in Ajax you really need to do lots of work. Use any Ajax Panel, write the javascript for onkeyup or onkeydown and send it to the server. So for a few more lines of code I can use a normal TextBox and put my own javascript for the mask. BTW the Mask for the RadInput does not work if you are trying to do something like this:
RadInput1.Mask = “<AA|AB|AC|AD|AE|AF…. Etc
If you are more than 50 masks will take 5 minutes to render the control!!
It’s a hobby of mine to find bugs or problems with code, I do think Telerik will keep me entertained for a while. Well I’m off to create an auto complete textbox with Atlas or MS Ajax.
Cheers
Al