The ASP.NET framework developer, DotNetNuke has announced a partnership with the interface development company, Telerik. Both companies are recognized as quality developers in the ASP.NET field, and their partnership has been highly welcomed by interested parties.
The partnership announcements come with the release of DotNetNuke 5.2. Telerik’s RadControls will be readily available with this edition, and provide a richer toolset by way of an engaging user interface. DotNetNuke 5.2 will be available in two editions, Community Edition, and Professional Edition. In order to completely use the RadControls tool set, you’ll have to purchase the Professional Edition.
DotNetNuke hopes with the partnership that engaging user experiences will be more frequent for website users. For those who are interested in the DotNetNuke 5.2 release should know the full Telerik RadEditor is only available with the Professional Edition.
Telerik has made out good in this deal as DotNetNuke plans to promote Telerik on its website, newsletter, and at future trade shows.
Here’s a list of features you’ll find with DotNetNuke’s Professional Edition 5.2:
- Enhanced Rich Text Editor - Based on the commercially successful RadEditor from Telerik, the new text editor offers features like Microsoft Word “clean” HTML, spell checking, HTML templates, image resizing and compression and more.
- Page Caching - Improves web site performance by serving cached pages from a location specified by the site administrator: memory, database, or disk.
- Module Caching - Stores module content in a centralized database for faster page loading without requiring web server processing.
- Security Center - Protects DotNetNuke Professional Edition users by dynamically loading lists of known security vulnerabilities affecting the current software version and provides navigational guidance to acquire the latest software updates.
Svetozar Georgiev, co-CEO at Telerik had this to say about the partnership, “We’re excited that Telerik RadControls has become part of the sophisticated DotNetNuke web content management system. Combining the RadControls toolset and developer rights with the DotNetNuke Professional Edition will make it possible for web site developers to easily access our powerful tools and create dynamic, interactive web applications.”
Along With Georgiev, Shaun Walker, Co-Founder of DotNetNuke provided this statement, “We are very pleased with the addition of Telerik RadControls to the DotNetNuke platform. Developers will benefit from the powerful tools for developing rich, client-side interfaces for web site visitors. Combined with the other new features in Professional Edition 5.2, this latest release should greatly benefit customers using DotNetNuke in business-critical applications.”
It sounds like the deal is going to benefit everyone involved. What remains to be seen is if the most important benefactors, the users, will truly receive a more highly enhanced experience. If the company’s reputations are anything to go by, I’d say ‘yes’.