I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awesome in the extensions.

VS Extensions

Telerik’s MVC extensions come with built in Visual Studio extensions to make project creation, and configuration, a snap.  In addition, the extensions include a variety of project templates to help start new projects: 

What Makes it Awesome

Instead of forcing me to manually check for updates, the extension proactively alert me to any available updates:

When ...

The Telerik MVC Extensions service pack for the first quarter of 2012 is out in the wild! It is available under the Telerik accounts of the commercial license holders. This maintenance release delivers a slew of improvements and fixes that will boost additionally your productivity and help you develop modern-looking and high-performing web sites with the Telerik MVC Extensions suite.

Here are the most important enhancements we are shipping with the Q1'12 Commercial Telerik MVC Extensions package:

• (ComboBox) Added option to toggle case sensitive behavior of the combobox
• (Date/Time Pickers) Allow to specify the available hours of the time view ...

It’s an exciting time to be an ASP.NET developer, especially with the upcoming ASP.NET 4.5 and MVC4 releases, and I know a lot of you are wondering how the Telerik Extensions ASP.NET MVC will work with ASP.NET MVC4. While we do not have official builds against MVC4 today, we will be providing these once the platform finally comes out of beta. For those of you curious as to whether or not it works in the current beta, I can tell you that it does! Actually, I’ll do one better: I’ll show you! :)

For the Love of Beta

For this ...

The Q1 2012 Telerik DevTools release is out the door! Following the MVC Extesions Q1'12 Beta announcement, I would like to tersely sketch what the additions in the official release are (or the omissions I inadvertently made in my previous post). Either way, here they are.

Cascading comboboxes

This has been one of the top voted features for the combobox in our public issue tracker, and we heard you! This release gives you built-in cascading comboboxes support by specifying the id of the related combo via the CascadeTo combo attribute. Once you make a selection in the first combo, ...

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of the Telerik MVC Extensions Q1 2012 Beta release! With it comes the longed-for Area chart type as well as a bunch of new features for the majority of the existing chart types supported by our MVC charting. We are also shipping a plethora of small and medium-sized features across all the Telerik MVC extensions, as well as formal support for the Chrome 16 and FireFox 10 browser versions.

I won't go into much detail about each and every new functionality delivered with the Beta and, consecutively, the upcoming official major release ...

The chart component for the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC is a rapidly expanding MVC component. Not only are we adding many new features, but we’re also increasing the available chart types. With the introduction of Q3 2011 we were able to start using two new chart types - Scatter and Scatter Line. Both types allow you to plot points anywhere on your chart area, as long as you provide each point with X and Y values. Let’s take a look at how you can implement these chart types, as well as take use of some new features introduced in ...

Now that the final major release of the Telerik DevTools division is behind our backs, it is time to make some preliminary plans for year 2012. The AJAX and MVC suites received important updates throughout 2011 and, as you probably expect, this trend will continue next year. One tad you need to have in mind is that the DevTools release will be shifted one month ahead, therefore it will be out in mid February, instead of mid March as it used to be.

This means that you will get all that is slated for the next release sooner than you ...

Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to.

MVC Scatter Chart

In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of ...

Two days after the Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta launch we are presenting you the MVC Q3'11 Beta preview bits. Among the highlights are the new Metro skin for all Telerik MVC Extensions, improved mobile support, new Pie chart series type, keyboard support for the editor and a bunch of new features for the grid extension. The compressed packages for the Open Source and Commercial distributions are ready and steady for download.

Enhanced Mobile Support | Metro skin

With this early preview we are conveying improved mobile support for our MVC extensions in terms of drag & drop and ...