As many of you have waited patiently for this feature, I decided to drop a few words since it has already been implemented. We will introduce it officially with the next quarterly release in September. Of course anyone who needs this badly can open a support ticket and request internal build! Well here it is - basically the drill is the same as with the SharedCalendar:

1. Drop a TimeView control on the page
   
   
2. Set the SharedTimeViewID property of the Time/DateTimePicker to the TimeView instance
   
   
3. Run the page and enjoy 3 Kbs less output for every TimePicker you have on the page

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Silverlight 1.0 RC is out, and so is the refresh of the Telerik Silverlight suite.


We have been working hard the past week to implement the compatibility changes between the 1.0beta and 1.0RC plugin. Check out our Silverlight demos online and let us know if you encounter any problems. The refreshed suite is also available for free download in your accounts.

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In our final look at the RadControls for ASP.NET running on an iPhone, we'll look at RadSplitter, RadTabStrip, RadToolBar, RadTreeView, RadUpload, and RadWindow. In the first two installments of this series we looked at the other 12 RadControls running on the phone and found most of them to be usable or semi-usable. So far, only RadEditor has earned an unusable rating on the iPhone's mobile Safari. Today we'll pass judgement on the remaining RadControls and then create a quick summary chart that you can reference during your future iPhone development.

So without further delay, here's how the final six controls fared:

1. RadSplitter: Semi-usable
   RadSplitter on an...

We have extended our SharePoint 2007 offering by adding an Integration Guide, which shows how to integrate the RadControls for ASP.NET into a MOSS 2007 site. Point your browsers to the following address for the details http://www.telerik.com/products/sharepoint/integration-guide.aspx.

The new resources include a Whitepaper, a Screencast, and a new section in our forums, which is dedicated to using RadControls in MOSS 2007. The Whitepaper shows two possible ways to add one of our controls (RadMenu in this case) in a MOSS 2007 publishing site. The first (and recommended) approach is to create a WSS solution package and deploy it. The second approach...

In part one of this three part series, we looked at RadAjax, RadCalendar, RadChart, RadCombobox, RadDock, and RadEditor running on the iPhone. We found most of those controls run relatively well on the iPhone with the exception of RadEditor. In this second installment, we'll look at another batch of RadControls and pass judgement on their usability. Each control will be deemed either usable, semi-usable, or unusable on the iPhone so that you can quickly tweak your applications (or build new ones) for iPhone users.

Today's lucky controls are RadGrid, RadInput, RadMenu, RadPanelbar, RadRotator, and RadSpell. During all of my tests with these controls, the...

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

RadInput

Help topics:

• How-to -> Set focus on RadInput controls - not uploaded yet
• How-to -> Get and set values in RadInput controls (client-side) - not uploaded yet
• Resolve RadInput flickering in Ajax scenarios under Firefox - not uploaded yet
• General functionality -> Data-Binding - not uploaded yet

RadTreeView

Code library entries:

• Show Loading Message while RadTreeView is being loaded:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-hbbat.aspx
• Save value of RadTreeNode in cookies:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-hbebb.aspx

RadComboBox

Help topics:

• Troubleshooting->ItemTemplate Events Problems - not uploaded yet
• Troubleshooting->100% width to the HeaderTemplate - not uploaded yet

RadEditor

Help topics:

• Troubleshooting -> Warning message in Internet Explorer 7.0 under SSL (HTTPS) - not uploaded yet
• Troubleshooting...

Before we step to the actual integration, there are few requirements that need to be met.

• Download and install RadControls for Silverlight
• Download and install Microsoft Expression Media Encoder
• Download and unzip TelerikThemePackage.zip (The archive contains 3 files - Default.html, player.xaml and preview.jpg)

I assume that you have successfully completed the above three tasks.

1. Go to where you have installed Microsoft Expression Media Encoder. Then navigate to the Templates folder. Usually this is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Expression\Media Encoder 1.0\Templates\en\



2. Create a copy of any of the folders (E.g. "Pilot") and rename it to Telerik



3. Replace Default.html, player.xaml, preview.jpg from the newly created "Telerik" folder with the three files from the TelerikThemePackage.zip archive.



4. Open Microsoft Expression...

Since the beginning of ASP.NET AJAX era I have seen very few examples on how to manually force update of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel using JavaScript and I have decided to post very simple approach how to do this.

First of all you will need to create your own UpdatePanel which will inherit from the original ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and will implement IPostBackEventHandler interface:



Now you can call explicitly Update() method of the UpdatePanel:



... and that's it! :-) ... however we can extend this control with an event which will be raised on explicit updates:

Now you can use the new UpdatePanel in your pages like this:

Enjoy!

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I am now pleased to announce immediate availability of the public Beta of RadControls for Silverlight. Telerik is really eager to promote the Silverlight technology in the community and we have decided to ship a free distribution of our RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight 1.0. The bits are now available as a free download from our website . The latest version of RadControls features the new RadMediaPlayer control. Some of the key features of the media player include:

• Support for chapters and playlists
• Full customization through themes that can be easily modified/created with Microsoft Expression Blend
• Integration with Microsoft Expression Media Encoder
• Flexible...

Love it or hate it (as those seem to be the only two options), the iPhone is here and there are already over a million people using it to surf the "real Internet" in their pockets. And if there is anything I love more than ASP.NET and the RadControls, it's gadgets. So naturally I had to replace my "so last season" BlackBerry 8300 with an 8GB iPhone soon after it came out (which, for those that care, I love and fully recommend).



One thing Steve Jobs and Apple stressed during the marketing blitz leading up to the iPhone's release is that...