One of my biggest issues with ASP.NET MVC was it’s lack of built-in controls similar to what ships with ASP.NET WebForms.  This means when you want things like a TreeView or some sort of DataGrid you pretty much need to write it yourself.  Well now it seems as though companies are starting to push some controls targeted at MVC.  Today Telerik announced their first CTP for ASP.NET MVC extensions.

Right now it seems pretty basic for what they offer but it’s a start.  You get an accordion, date picker, progress bar, slider, message box and tabs.  Even though you can already add these controls with some custom javascript, they take the work out of them and clean them up a bit.  In additional allowing you to bind to properties and methods from within ASP.NET.  This removes the need to have to have to implement ASP.NET data within your jQuery tags.

Best of all?  They’re open source!  Nice one Telerik.

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