Learn about one of our latest products—a fully-featured standalone UI for ASP.NET Core to help you develop ASP.NET Core apps fast.
As of R3 2016, we have separated our ASP.NET Core offering in a separate product, named UI for ASP.NET Core. With this move we seek to clarify our commitment to and focus on the ASP.NET Core technology in general.
Why Is It a New Suite?
We announced official ASP.NET Core 1.0 support in our UI for ASP.NET MVC in mid-July 2016. This announcement was made in the middle of our release cycle and it made sense at that point of time—Microsoft called the product MVC6 until shortly a few months before the official ASP.NET Core release (so it was OK to support it on our MVC suite). In addition, you had something to play with early on (and many of you did. Thank you!)
But it turned out that this approach 1) wasn’t the correct one and 2) didn’t scale very well. While similar, differences between the ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core are present, and specifics (cross-platform deployment, tag helpers) of the new branch are going to confuse the users who have not migrated yet. The new users on the other side would prefer to deal with content that’s 100% relevant to what they do.
I Own UI for ASP.NET MVC. What Does This Mean to Me?
Just like UI for ASP.NET MVC, the UI for ASP.NET Core product is part of the Kendo UI Complete bundle. In addition, both products are part of our DevCraft bundles. If you own any of these, you won’t have to pay any additional fee to obtain the new suite. It is already available in your account.
What’s Next for UI for ASP.NET Core?
In terms of features, the separate product means that we will maintain a separate set of resources for the new product. We already separated the demos (ASP.NET MVC from ASP.NET Core). As we move forward, we are also maintaining a separate roadmap, focused on the product specific features. One of the significant items in the current iteration would be to extract the documentation from the main Kendo UI docs.
Meanwhile, you may browse the demos and let us know which are the features you’re missing in our UserVoice portal. We would love to hear more from you!
