Component vendors unsure about ASP.NET MVC?
Does anyone know of any commercial component vendors planning to support ASP.NET MVC?
Phil Haack, the Microsoft Program Manager, said "Yes, for the CTP we don't have a story for control vendors. This is one of our highest priorities for the next milestone.".
I looked into a hand full of vendors, and found the following:
Infragistics, Jan 2008. In the forums they said they have no plans to share at this time.
ExtJs, Feb 2008. This came up on MVCContrib, looks like they may be planning something. Someone has posted their findings on using it too.
Telerik, Jan 2008. Telerik have played with getting their controls to work with MVC, but they don't have enough information from Microsoft to forge a definitive plan yet. So, it's still a big maybe
ComponentOne - No mention yet.
SyncFusion - Nothing concrete, they have enourmous respect for it, but hint at no support by saying that you can "get close to MVC" using Web Forms.
Gaia Ajax Widgets - No mention yet.
Looks like a gap in the market. If one of the vendors produced usable MVC solution right now, would it give them a foot-hold? Or just too risky?
Comments
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I think there definitely be a gap in the market. However, I think at the moment MVC.net is a moving target. The CTP was put forward to gain feedback from the community, and who knows what will might be different for the release. I also think nobody really understands who is going to use MVC over webforms, and in what numbers. We the first influx is likely to be devs from the Agile/TDD/Alt.net communities. How many will want controls, and what sort of controls would they want? Can we get any clues from the the other MVC frameworks that are available? Seems like it is a waiting game, but as you say, the first to market could potentially do very well.
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Good points and issues raised there Andrew, thanks. Do you think that Microsoft is "pushing" MVC at developers? I wonder if they're offering it just to cover all bases?
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You probably know this by now, but we have a very strong dedication to MVC, just not Microsoft's ;) Due to the fact that Microsoft MVC breaks all existing component vendor's controls due to not being compatible with WebControls none of the existing WebControls frameworks works together with Microsoft MVC. That's why we've decided to create our own MVC implementation... This will probably be released the 15th of May 2008 Thomas
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I get the impression that Microsoft aren't going to push MVC.NET. I think they will release it and it will be snapped up by the TDD/ALT.NET/Agile crowd and then see how it eminates from there.