• The WPF Conversion contest. My personal favorite is missing.

    Sunday, October 29, 2006 by Hristo Kosev | Comment 1

    The conversion contest announced some months ago by Mike Swanson ended a few days ago:

    http://wpf.netfx3.com/content/ConversionContest.aspx

    It's a pity that none of the contestants has written a Flash (SWF) to XAML converter so far.
    Although to me, it looks like a hard job to do I think soon there'll be some third party tools which will successfully convert some simple flash files to XAML. I found a good tool by Kinesis Software which decompiles SWF to RVML. The task gets simplified and now someone should write an extension which converts RVML to XAML. As easy as that :)
    Btw I've got another favorite missing - Maya to...

  • MS AJAX Beta1 - ClientScript is dead, long live ScriptManager

    Monday, October 23, 2006 by ASP.NET AJAX Team | Comments 5

    As some of us have found the latest installment of MS AJAX is not backwards compatible. Shortly after ScottGu’s official statement our QA team reported that none of our controls worked with MS AJAX Beta 1. That is really bad news if you happen to claim to be the first ASP.NET component vendor with official ATLAS support. This called for a desperate debugging session which happens to be what I and Hristo Deshev like the most :). So I downloaded and installed the latest version (kudos to Microsoft for the painless install). I created an “Ajax enabled web site” and wired up r.a.d.input....

  • r.a.d.ajax and web services

    Sunday, October 15, 2006 by Vladimir Milev | Comments 4

    My team and I have been working hard to bring you the cool web services functionality that shipped with r.a.d.ajax in Q3 a week ago. And now, when the goodies are out in the open, people are beginning to explore the new features and looking for suitable ways to use them. I have been reading some of the initial support tickets we received about the web services support in r.a.d.ajax and it seems that quite a few people would appreciate some guidance with this somewhat advanced feature of the product. This blog post is meant to get you guys started.

    Scared...

  • Creating ASP.NET AJAX client-side classes

    Friday, October 13, 2006 by ASP.NET AJAX Team | Comments 4

    Does that subject looks lame or what! I'm trying to stop using the “Atlas” name -- it's ASP.NET AJAX now, and getting used to the new name is a major pain in the backside. Even though the official name Jessie-James-Garett-certified name is Ajax (note the capitalization), Microsoft chose AJAX. Anyway, I hope I'll get used to it eventually.

    So, how do you create a class in a language that has a classless object model? Why would you want to do that in the first place? Prototype-based object oriented programming is way more powerful than your grandma's classes that you are used...

  • How to close Netscape 8.1.2.0 with JavaScript

    Wednesday, October 11, 2006 by ASP.NET AJAX Team | Comment 1

    Hi there. I am still kicking. It has been some time since my last post as most of my efforts were concentrated on the quarterly release (which is a lame excuse).

    Anyway here is an interesting thing that I tackled a minute ago:

    The following script closes immediately the latest installment of Netscape:

    <html>
    <body>
        <div id="div1">
            <div id="div2">
            </div>
        </div>
       
        <button onclick="return CloseNetscapeNow()">Close Netscape</button>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function CloseNetscapeNow()
            {
                var div1 = document.getElementById("div1");
                var div2 = document.getElementById("div2");
                div1.appendChild(div2);
            }  
        </script>
    </body>
    </html>


    Just click the button and enjoy. It turns out that the appendChild method does not work very well when you try to add...

  • r.a.d.controls - source code and redistribution

    Wednesday, October 04, 2006 by Vassil Terziev | Comments 5

    In my last blog post about Q3 I forgot to mention two VERY VERY important benefits for customers: firstly, we changed the license agreement and secondly, we started to ship the source of the r.a.d.controls with every purchase of a Subscription license (the one that costs $999 per developer).

    Over the last few months many customers contacted us with questions about our redistribution policies as our license agreement wasn't very clear cut about what is acceptable and what isn't. If you remember, I blogged about this not long ago in an attempt to clarify our policies: Demystifying the telerik r.a.d.controls...

  • Q3 2006 and what we've done in the last few months

    Sunday, October 01, 2006 by Vassil Terziev | Comments 6

    It's a late Sunday afternoon (actually, it's Monday as I started the post yesterday). The weather is great, everyone's out as its unusually hot and people are having a great time. I myself am in the office since early morning with part of our team but I love it! It's always really invigorating around releases as everything you've worked on for months stitches together and you can see it in its full beauty. And, for this release, we've got plenty of things coming. I haven't been so excited in a long time and I decided not to be selfish and...

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