Ask Nik: Using third-party controls in DotNetNuke

Dharmesh Shah asks:

I’m exploring the use of third-party controls (like Infragistics, ComponentArt, etc.) within my custom modules. My first round of experimentation with Infragistics seems to indicate a problem because of some of the Javascript and other stuff the control tries to insert. Do you have any tips or experience in using these types of controls inside a DNN module?

Nik’s response:

This is an issue that is going to plague DNN developers for some time to come. To understand why, let’s examine how components use Javascript.

Generally speaking, a third-party component will inject JS into your page in one of two ways: (1) by having a