Installing Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC with the MSI Installer for Windows

This article describes how to download and install Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC on a Windows machine by using the automated MSI installer file.

Using the MSI Installer gives you the following advantages:

It allows you to install the Telerik UI extensions for Visual Studio—the extensions provide project templates and automate the project configuration.
It can automatically add the Telerik NuGet server to the package manager in Visual Studio.
It allows you to install the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Sample Application—you can use this demo app to see how to tackle some common scenarios by using the Telerik UI components.
You get local copies of all Telerik UI files that you will need for the project configuration, for example, the binaries with the Telerik components, CSS files, Kendo UI scripts, and packages required for document processing, export, and spreadsheet manipulation.

An alternative approach is to use NuGet and to install only the packages that you need for your project.

Prerequisites

Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC requires the .NET Framework. Download the current version of the .NET Framework from Microsoft's website.
The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Sample Application that is distributed with the same package requires:
- A current .NET Framework version
- Visual Studio 2012 or later
- Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB

To download the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC MSI installer:

Log into your Telerik account.
Click Downloads in the top navigation bar.
Click Progress^® Telerik^® UI for ASP.NET MVC.
In the Installation section, select the msi installer file.
Run the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC installer. The automatic setup will guide you through the rest of the installation. The default installation directory is C:\Program Files (x86)\Progress\Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC <version>.

To configure the NuGet package source, follow the steps in the Installing with NuGet article.

You will find the following in the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC installation directory:

js—These are the minified JavaScript files.
styles—The non-minified CSS files used by the themes.
src—Contains an informational README saying that you must visit your Telerik account to download the source.zip package with the JavaScript, CSS, and C# source code. This directory is not available in the trial version.
VSExtensions—The extensions for Visual Studio.
typescript—The TypeScript definitions for the Kendo combined scripts (kendo.all, kendo.dataviz, kendo.web, and kendo.mobile).
vsdoc—The intellisense definitions for the Kendo combined scripts.
pdfviewer—The Telerik.Web.PDF assembly from the Telerik Document Processing library and its dependencies.
dpl—The NuGet packages for the Telerik Document Processing library.
export—The Kendo.Mvc.Export assembly that allows exporting IEnumerable sources to XLSX and CSV formats.
license-agreements—End-user license agreements files.
spreadsheet—The Telerik.Web.Spreadsheet assembly from the Telerik Document Processing library and its dependencies.
Scaffolding—The Kendo UI Scaffolder Visual Studio extension. It enables the generation of the Kendo UI MVC wrapper widget declarations inside Visual Studio projects.
wrappers\aspnetmvc\Binaries\MVC5—The assemblies for the ASP.NET MVC 5 applications.
wrappers\aspnetmvc\EditorTemplates—The ready-to-use editor templates based on the Kendo UI widgets.
wrappers\aspnetmvc\Examples\MVC5—The ASP.NET MVC 5 sample application.

Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC comes with a Sample Demos Application, in which you can explore and run locally the demos of the components.