title: Third party WPF controls: Devexpress vs Telerik
body: <p>I would like to hear your opinion about the two control providers.</p>
  
  <p>To put it in a nutshell: I am building a classic LOB desktop application. The app will be created entirely in WPF. PRISM 4.0 will be used heavily. Whenever possible, I will try to follow MVVM pattern(it would be nice if the selected controls were designed to adopt it easily). </p>
  
  <p>Mainly I am interested in:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p><strong>Good data grid,</strong> which supports sorting, filtering,  grouping,
  exporting, printing and works fine 
  with a big amount of bound
  records(10k+) </p>
  
  <p><strong>Combobox</strong> that supports filtering and auto-complete.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Navigation bar</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Layout manager</strong> that is similar to the one that is used VS 2010</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>In a long term, I would also like to use their:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p><strong>Report tools</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>"Data mining"</strong> controls</p>
  
  <p><strong>Localization support</strong> in order to localize data grid actions for instance,..</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have been using Winforms Devxpress for a while and I was quite satisfied. Their support team is great. Still, I want to check if there is any better option on the market. In other words, I would like to know if Telerik's controls have any additional value?</p>