Hi Guys,

We started our application development in 2006 using the "NetAdvantage for ASP.NET" classic controls like ultrawebgrid, ultrawebmenu, ultraweb editors, ultrawebtree etc.  At that time, multi browser support was not a priority so we didnt consider it while developing our application. Our application supports only IE browser.

Now after five years, we need to support all major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc.  After going through forum posts and comminucations with Infragistics support, it seems that we need to upgrade all our infragistics controls to new Aikido controls which are supported with those browsers.  Also Infragistics is saying that old "ultra" controls will soon be retired, so it seems that it is necessary to upgrade these controls.

But upgrading to new controls doesnt seems to be easy from the forum posts. Also we tried upgrading the controls on one page of our application and found that these new controls are very different in functionalities, methods, properties etc. Many of our pages has rich client side functionalities developed with the help of client side API's of controls like ultrawebgrid.  For every small thing - we need to go to Infragistics support to tell the problem, provide sample application and then work with them to resolve the issues. If we go by this method - I think it will lot of time for upgrading the classic controls to new Akido controls.  Because currently there doesnt seems to be a proper guideline or documentation on how upgrade should be done.

With this post, I would like to know opinions/views, issues in upgrading from classic controls to new Akido controls.

Thanks,
Bhimraj