Free Community License for Component Suites - Syncfusion

[FrancisChung]

Hi, I posted a link to Free Books earlier and it dawned on me belatedly I should post this too.

Basically I was looking for some free components to use with ASP.NET MVC and came across Syncfusion's Community License program.

I've used Syncfusion's suite of components many moons ago when I was working in Finance, and whilst all these component suites do have a bit of a learning curve they do provide a lot of components and robust functionality out of the box that you can leverage.

It's unheard of that a well established company like this would provide a free, community license when they could easily charge 1500-2000USD for a license but I'm guessing they must be losing market share to their competitors like Infragistics, DevExpress, Telerik etc and this is a bid to claw some back.

Again, a lot of the things lean towards Microsoft .NET technologies but there's certain things that might be of interest like the Javascript controls for Web/Mobile as well as some Excel/Word/PDF/Powerpoint libraries and Data Science library.

And calling a .NET/C# method in a DLL/Class from php is possible using this 

https://github.com/david-garcia-garcia/netphp

instead of  http://php.net/manual/en/class.dotnet.php  which only allows .NET 3.5 or below.

Enjoy!