It went public at 12:01 a.m. on May 30 – Microsoft® revealed the outcome of "Project Milan" now branded as Microsoft Surface™ and scheduled to debut in November this year. The nature of the project is a "multi-touch, gestural- and object-recognition interface technology on which Microsoft has been laboring for the past few years".



Named "Surface" and five years in the making, it's set to establish a paradigm of what Microsoft calls "surface computers" which use touch as the sole method of input. The goal is to deliver a hardware/software platform very close to the people and to weave the technology...

Did you know that all style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in Internet Explorer?
Well this applies to IE7 and LINK elements too and if you have such page for example you are lost:

I am happy to announce that I will be doing another WebCast with Joe Stagner at Microsoft this Thursday, May 31st at 9:00 AM PST (Noon EST). After the massive success of our last WebCast (which is still available for download), we arranged to make another appearance in the "Live from Redmond" WebCast series to address a common ASP.NET developer scenario.

The WebCast, titled "Do-it-yourself forums", will show you how you can use RadGrid, RadTreeView, RadEditor, and RadAjax "Prometheus" (the version based on ASP.NET AJAX) to build a simple forum application in less than 60 minutes. If fact, here is a brief...

I just checked our brand new still unpublished Silverlight media player control and I have to say that I'm really amazed!!! Just check this:


Isn't it cool? :-)

Common guys post some more info/demos on this :-)...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls:

RadGrid

Help topics:

• ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit extenders in RadGrid:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/?grdAJAXToolkitExtenders.html
• Aligning columns in each level of hierarchical grid:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/?grdAlignColumnsInHierarchy.html

Code library entries:

• Expand/collapse hierarchy with ajax request on double click:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mctme.aspx
• Expand/collapse hierarchy client-side on double click:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mchgd.aspx
• Single selection within each group of RadGrid:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mbgeb.aspx
  

RadCalendar

Help topics:

• Focus RadDate/TimePicker using RadAjax control:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/calendar/?Focus%20RadDate-TimePicker%20by%20RadAjax%20control.html

Code library entries:

• Disable hover effect for all calendar days:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mckec.aspx
• RadCalendar with No weekend days:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mckme.aspx

RadInput

Help topics:

• RadMaskedTextBox -> Different masks depending on culture:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/input/Different%20mask%20depending%20on%20culture.html
• RadDateInput -> Date parsing: No-separator date formats:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/input/?NoSeparatorDateFormats.html
• Focus RadInput using RadAjax control:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/input/?Focus%20RadInput%20using%20a%20RadAjax%20control.html

RadAjax

Help topics:

• Capture connection error and cancel ajax request:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/ajax/?ajx_capture_connection_error.html
• Reinitializing global variables on ajax request (not uploaded yet)
  

RadEditor

Help topics:

• Save In External File:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/editor/?SaveInExternalFile.html
• Format...

One of the features added to RadAjax "Prometheus" in the recent service pack was a new control called the RadAjaxManagerProxy. This control enables you to easily Ajaxify controls in your UserControls without worrying about adding multiple RadAjaxManagers to a page.

Background
Most RadAjax developers would probably say that Ajaxifying UserControls is one of the more difficult aspects of adding Ajax to an ASP.NET application. Even with good documentation, it is difficult to decide whether you should add an AjaxManager to each UserControl or handle all UserControl Ajax settings programmatically from a parent container. The big drawback of the later option (which is usually the...

One of the fun new features of Sitefinity 3.0 is its out of the box support for adding blogs to your website. The Blogs module is one of five included with the first release of Sitefinity 3.0 (the others being Lists, News, Polls, and Generic Content) and it has all of the basic tools you need to quickly start a blog (such as post list and single post view).

If you've been using a different blogging platform and you are considering switching to Sitefinity (like I am doing with Telerik Watch), you find there are some blogging tools that don't exisit in...

Did you ever wonder how to get rid of these evil pseudo cells selection / borders in your html tables in FireFox?

The solution is:
    <table border="1" style="-moz-user-select: none;">
        <tr>
           <td>Cell</td>
           <td>Cell</td>
        </tr>
      ...

however... if you have an INPUT elements inside the cells you will definitely loose the selection inside the INPUT. You can try this example:
    <table border="1" style="-moz-user-select: none;">
        <tr>
           <td<input type="text" /></td>
           <td>Cell</td>
        </tr>
      ...

So the question is: How to remove the cell selection borders and keep the selection in INPUT elements?

... and the answer is ...: -moz-user-select:...

I was debugging some obscure problem the other day. For some reason the __doPostBack JavaScript function was not defined (or “undefined” in JavaScript terms ;) ). It wouldn’t be so suspicious if I was able to view the source of the page and see the declaration of __doPostBack routine.

It turned out some iframe break the whole thing.

Consider the following html (notice that the iframe is in minimized form):

<div>I am before the iframe</div>
<iframe src="http://www.telerik.com" />
<div>I am after the iframe</div>

In that case the second div was not rendered at all. IN ALL BROWSERS!!!

First I thought it was one of “those” Internet...

With the official release of Sitefinity 3.0 yesterday, a whole new world of easy web development has been opened-up for ASP.NET web developers. Sitefinity allows you to forget about "basic" website plumbing (like user management, caching, and site management) and instead focus on adding content and modules to your site that are unique to your business. Using Sitefintiy as a starting point, you can have a powerful, easy to manage site up and running in a day instead of a week (or more).

One of the easiest ways to extend the functionality of Sitefinity is by creating UserControls (the plain 'ol .ASCX variety) that...