AJAX WebControls: Product Comparison

BlazeSuggest

BlazeSuggestPro

Extensive customizability

Extensive customizability
BlazeControls are fully customizable with full support for interactive "What You See Is What You Get" designing in Visual Studio 2005. Customizable row/alternating rows Customizable hover/selected rows Customize dropdown backgrounds, border, fonts and many more elements

Displayable dropdown images

Displayable Dropdown Images
Dress up the display of your dropdown control with the use of image links for maximum visual impact.

GridView style dropdown multiple columns

GridView Style Dropdown Multiple Columns
Supports, multiple GridView style columns for the dropdown list that can be configured dramatically. Visual changes can be applied to the look and feel, ordering, visibility, and formatting, and alternating styles, in multiple databound columns.

Customizable header and footer

Customizable Header and Footer
Add other visual elements to the dropdown, including headers, footers, search input bars and status bars. These visual enhancements improve the usability and feedback of the dropdown control.

Realtime Data lookup

Realtime Data lookup
AJAX callbacks are made intelligently as the user is typing for a truly interactive experience. Relavent results are quickly returned to the dropdown for the user selection.

Dropdown and Combobox modes

Dropdown and Combobox Modes
The control can be set to read-only or new-entry modes, simulating true dropdowns (read only) or comboboxes (new-entry mode), providing ultimate flexibility for whatever your needs may be.

Keyboard driven navigation

Keyboard Driven Navigation
The dropdown responds to keyboard navigation and selection keys for natural usability and for increased familiarity for your users.

No hassle implementation

No Hassle Implementation

Unlike the Telerik and RicherComponents auto-suggest products, BlazeControls does not require a separate page for AJAX callbacks. Simply drop the control in a page and it works hassle free.

When performance is a priorty, BlazeControls can also work seemlessly with seperate pages for generating AJAX return data.

Support for ASP.NET Standard Datasources

Support for ASP.NET Standard Datasources
BlazeControls works effectively with any standard or customized ASP.NET datasource. Simply connect your datasource to the BlazeControl just like you would with any other ASP.NET control, and the control will be ready for use.

Optimized for Direct SQL Access

Optimized for Direct SQL Access
When performance is the top priority, BlazeControls can override standard Datasource accesses to perform direct SQL commands to your database for ultimate efficiency.

Customizable AJAX behavior

Customizable AJAX Behavior
BlazeControls provides the ability to fine tune the responsiveness of your BlazeControl by tweaking the amount of data returned per AJAX call. BlazeControls is designed to help you acheive optimum performance unique to your needs.

Pre-defined skins

Pre-Defined Skins
BlazeControls comes with many predefined visual themes for convenient and immediate deployment.

Rich Visual Studio intellisense

Rich Visual Studio Intellisense
Every control offered by BlazeControls incorporates Visual Studio's Intellisense to the fullest. Detailed documentation and rich metadata has been implemented to ease the web development process for new and expert programmers alike.

Rich Visual Studio designer interface

Rich Visual Studio Designer Interface
BlazeSuggest offers a rich development environment by tightly incorporating the Visual Studio Designer. This allows the user to customize our control any way they wish with visual feedback on how their changes will affect the control instantaneously. Features such as the column formatting, column order, display attributes, and the layout are all at the fingertips of the developer.