• 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...
  • In part one, we looked at how you can use RadUpload and the open source SharpZipLib to easily upload and expand zip archives. Today, we'll look at the other end of the process: creating new zip files on the server and then making them available for users to download.

    To do this, we'll extend the sample we created in part one. As you recall, our sample already enables users to upload a zip file that contains image files and then the server automatically extracts all images to a target directory. We'll extend this demo by creating a text file and then zipping...
  • Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to automatically zip and unzip archives with ASP.NET? It may be easier than you think thanks to the powerful SharpZipLib open source library. This library provides you with a number of easy to use tools for working with Zip (and GZip, Tar, and BZip2, for that matter) archives in .NET code that make the task of creating and expanding compressed archives relatively easy.

    Today we're going to look at how you can use RadUpload and SharpZipLib to upload a Zip archive and then expand it on the server. For our scenario, let's pretend...
  • In his recent post Bertrand Le Roy announced that he migrated his ObjectHierarchicalDataSource and CompositeHierarchicalDataSource controls from GotDotNet to CodePlex.

    I just downloaded the sample projects and tried binding RadMenu and RadTreeView to those data source controls. Everything went according to plan:

    I’ve made two demo web sites – ObjectHierarchicalDataSource.zip and CompositeHierarchicalDataSource.zip. Feel free to check them...

  • Here is something I didn't know until recently:

    If you have a ScriptControl whose JavaScript files are web resources (served through ScriptResource.axd instead of WebResource.axd) and the date of the assembly is in the future, that very JavaScript file will fail to load.

    I have attached a test solution to illustrate the case - AssemblyInTheFuture.zip. Build it and run the Default.aspx page - everything is fine and a nasty alert saying "initialize" pops out. Now change the date of your PC - set it to yesterday. Stop ASP.NET Development server to reset the script resource cache dependency. Open Default.aspx again (but...
  • I am glad to announce that we have just released a "Futures" version of RadControls Prometheus. Why "Futures"? I will tell you in detail below, but those of you who are anxious to get their hands on the latest release, can download it from here: http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/thread/b311D-mhkha.aspx

    What's new in the "Futures" release?
    The RadScheduler...
  • If you create or declare img and script element with empty src attribute or link element with empty href attribute you will receive unwanted GET request with latest FireFox. The problem with img elements exist even in IE 6/ IE 7 however the request will be to the application root. You can check all these using this simple example:

    <%@ Page Language="C#" %>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <script runat="server">
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }
    </script>
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head id="Head1" runat="server">
        <title>Untitled Page</title>
        <script src=""></script>
        <link href="" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
            <img src="" />
            <div>
            </div>
        </form>
    </body>
    </html>

    You should be extra careful...
  • It looks like Microsoft is investing in Second Life and soon several events will take place on the Visual Studio island they're building.
    This news isn't sensational but I like the idea.
    A...
  • We are very happy to announce the official CTP of “RadControls for Silverlight” suite. Telerik is the first control vendor to give you a real Silverlight 1.0 controls which you can play with and use in your web pages.

    Those of you who signed up through the CTP registration form have already received the bits. For those of you who missed the registration – it is still open.

    The controls in the suite target Silverlight version 1.0 Beta. The official version of Silverlight 1.0 is expected this summer.

    So what do you need in order to use the controls? Nothing special really -...