Syncfusion upgrade v14.1 to v20.3

We’re working on our technical debt and moved the Syncfusion upgrade into our sprint. Time to get this done since it was long overdue. Turned out this was easy with a little aftermath.

Since we only used the ejGrid in this part of the system we we’re done in just 4 steps:

1


Upgrade nugets

We updated all nugets to the latest versions. This was v20.3.0.56 for Syncfusion.Asp.Mvc5 and v3.6.1 for jQuery

2


Insert license in global.asax

As described on their page we needed to add our license string to the global.asax.cs file. If not added you’ll get a red banner.

3


Add js files to bundle

The old version javascript file were forgiving when omitting some. Now we needed to add jsrender.min.js and ej.tooltip.min.js.

4


Breaking changes

We noticed two breaking changes. One manifested build time: EditingType.Dropdown became DropdownEdit. The other was found during testing: toolbar icon customisation changed – we removed the icon and are using text now

The toolbar icons were a bit of a struggle. Right after the upgrade the icons were displayed twice and the text was not visible. To get things going we replaced the icon + text by text-only and moved on to demo this to our product owner.

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Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.
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