The other day I needed an ASP.NET MVC grid control, and I have always heard about Telerik’s ASP.NET MVC Extensions and the great tools they provide, so I decided to give them a try.
So I followed the installation guide step by step, and prepared my code to use the extensions; I added a reference to the DLL, added the scripts, etc… and I thought I was ready to test-drive it.
I opened Telerik’s sample website which showed the control and below it the code sample that made it work, innocently enough I did what any other developer would do to try out the sample code: copy and paste it in your page and then build. To my surprise there was an error in the View; it didn’t recognize an Extension method called “Configurator”!
It was so strange, why wouldn’t it work? I made sure that I added the correct reference dll, that I added the namespaces in the web.config as advised by the guide, and that I used the “using” at the top of my page, but yet it didn’t work.
Ok now that is really strange, I downloaded Reflector ILSpy and disassembled Teleriks dll to make sure that this method exists, and it wasn’t there! where does this Configurator method come from?!
I opened the sample project to make sure of their code, and guess what…the Configurator method was a method that only exists in their sample project; it wasn’t part of the DLL! I wasted considerable time trying to figure this out, and my conclusion was: never use auxiliary code when you are presenting a sample for another code unless you make it clear.
I Remember Once I Had An Issue With A Sample Code That Was “Ready To Use”, Thanks God I Didn’t Have To Disassemble Anything.
Thanks For Sharing, I Dont Trust Telerik That Much BTW.
Hehe, frustrating isn’t it!
On the other hand, why don’t you trust them? I didn’t use their controls heavily but I hear they are the best in the market, no?!