(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The company behind the most widely adopted framework for building websites and apps on Microsoft .NET (www.microsoft.com/NET), DotNetNuke Corp (www.dotnetnuke.com), has launched DotNetNuke Community Edition 5.2 and DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.2, which both benefit from a new partnership with .NET development tools and user interface components developer Telerik (www.telerik.com).
According to DotNetNuke’s Thursday announcement, Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX is integrated into both of the latest commercial and free editions of DotNetNuke, providing users a richer toolset for developing dynamic, engaging web interfaces in the DotNetNuke platform.
Developers using the free DotNetNuke Community Edition are able to use RadControls through the standard user interface extensions provided in the DotNetNuke platform. DotNetNuke Professional Edition customers will receive a full development license for Telerik RadControls, valued at $999 per year. The development license allows the customer’s developers to use the complete RadControls development toolset within their instance of DotNetNuke Professional Edition, which costs $1,999 annually.
“This is really a huge deal for us,” DotNetNuke Corp. co-founder and chief architect Shaun Walker said in a phone interview. “Teleric has also been a sponsor of the DotNetNuke project for probably the last four years, so they recognized the momentum that DotNetNuke was getting even in the early years, and wanted to get involved and so they’ve been a good sponsor for us.”
Walker said that forging an Original Equipment Manufacturer relationship was fairly complex, especially considering that DotNetNuke is an open-source project, however, Teleric was an excellent choice of an organization to partner with, and he is very happy with the outcome.
“When it came time for us to look at the DotNetNuke platform and come up with a strategy for improving the user experience, Walker said. “They were obviously the front-runner partner that we could consider in terms of OEM’ing their controls.”
Aside from the addition of RadControls, DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.2 features an enhanced rich text editor based Telerik’s RadEditor, offering features such as Microsoft Word “clean” HTML, spell checking, HTML templates, image resizing and compression. It also includes improved page caching that bolsters website performance by serving cached pages from a location specified by the site administrator. The is also module caching, which loads pages faster by storing module content in a centralized database without needing web server processing.
DotNetNuke Professional Edition also offers a security center that protects users by dynamically loading lists of known security vulnerabilities affecting the current software version and providing guidance on how to acquire the latest software updates.
Navin Nagiah said the DotNetNuke platform has undergone some very dramatic progress recently. “We’ve hit major milestones, whether its product releases, advanced features, or product partnerships like the one with Telerik, or the extensions marketplace that we acquired,” Nagiah said. “So, we’ve continued to gain enormous traction in both the product side and even on the paid customer side, and general user adoption has been skyrocketing as well, so we’re very pleased with the progress we’ve had over the past year.”
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