The Kendo UI Framework Installation and Setup Part 2 of 3 - Commercial License

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Part 2 - The Kendo UI Framework Commercial License Version 


The Download

Each version can be downloaded here: http://www.kendoui.com/get-kendo-ui.aspx
You can use your Telerik account or create an account to download Kendo UI.
For the Commercial License version you must purchase a license. The price is $399 per developer, royalty free: http://www.kendoui.com/purchase.aspx

The Kendo UI is included with the Telerik Premium and Ultimate collections: http://www.telerik.com/purchase.aspx


The Files and Folders

The main download file is called  kendoui.web-dataviz.2011.3.1129.commercial.zip, it's size is 3.71MB zipped, 9MB decompressed.

Inside the zip file you will find 4 folders and 2 files.

The Folders

• Examples - This folder contains all the Kendo UI Framework examples for Kendo UI Web and Kendo UI Dataviz. This folder contains 3 folders and 1 file:

• Dataviz
• Shared
• Web
• Index.html

          The examples are loaded in your default web browser, I recommend IE. Chrome and Firefox have      issues with at least one of the samples running locally using file://. In IE you just have to accept the Active X warning each time you reopen your browser. You can get around any annoying prompts if you have IIS installed, just point a site/Virtual directory to the examples directory. You may get an intranet enabling warning, but once accepted in IE, it will never happen again. IIS does not fix the Chome and Firefox issues with at least one of the examples.

Note: Using the Windows built in zip you cannot run the examples directly from the zip file, you must extract the zip first. I use WinRAR - http://rarsoft.com/ , which will auto extract everything needed for a file to run when clicked on. I recommend extracting the whole archive to a folder.

• JS - This folder contains all JavaScript for the Kendo UI Framework.

• Source - This contains all js source and styles.

• Styles - This folder contains all styles used by the Kendo UI Framework.

The Files

• EULA-Kendo.pdf - This is the Kendo UI Framework end user license agreement. This is also available online here:  http://www.kendoui.com/purchase/license-agreement/kendo-ui-web-commercial.aspx

• Licenses.txt - Contains the licenses for  the jQuery JavaScript library. This is also available online here: https://raw.github.com/jquery/jquery/master/MIT-LICENSE.txt

The License - Kendo UI Commercial Version

The Kendo UI Commercial license :

• Full source code

• 10 Support Tickets through the web site, answers are within 48 hours.
  More info about support can be found here:  http://www.kendoui.com/support-options.aspx#1

• Access to Build Custom Tool

• Access to Major and Minor builds for 1 year

The Configuration and Implementation

Note: You can install Kendo UI in pretty much any project that is web based, I prefer the .NET Framework, so that is what I am using for this setup.

It is as simple as adding these four lines to your headers:

<link href="styles/kendo.common.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<link href="styles/kendo.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 <script src="js/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

 <script src="js/kendo.all.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

You can also use the CDN which will only have Kendo UI major releases:


<link href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.3.1129/styles/kendo.common.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<link href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.3.1129/styles/kendo.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.3.1129/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>

As you can see the Kendo UI is so simple to get up and running, I cannot imagine using any other HTML5 based UI framework and with Telerik involved, it can be nothing but the best. Stay tuned for many more posts about The Kendo UI Framework in the near future.

For more information about the Kendo UI, go here: KendoUI.com.

For more information about Telerik, go here: Telerik.com