Today is D-Day ("Download Day") for the much-anticipated version 3 of Mozilla's popular web browsing client, Firefox. In an effort to create more buzz around the launch, Mozilla has requested that users help them attempt a new Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading the new Firefox release today. Over 1.7 million people from around the world pledged to download the new client today.

As an aside, I think its pretty cool that they are trying to get in the Guinness record books, but is it really a record if it's never been done before? I...

In the era of the "classic" RadControls for ASP.NET modifying a skin required opening

~ / RadControls / [ControlName] / Skins / [SkinName] / styles.css

and making the necessary changes. The new RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as "Prometheus") by default use skins, which are embedded in the assembly. This simplifies deployment but sacrifices customization. Or does it?

Actually, making a change to an embedded skin of a RadControl for ASP.NET AJAX is quite easy, given that one keeps in mind a couple of notable things. Namely:

(1) Since the embedded skin cannot be modified, the custom styles need to be placed elsewhere. For example ...

Inspired by Scott Hanselman's quest to read source code to be a better developer I decided to start a series of blog posts and write about anything which comes to my mind in the everyday encountering with THE code here at Telerik. As Scott is doing a great job with his quest I would rather focus on topics in which the distinction between right and wrong is not clear enough. I'm not talking about starting flame wars but rather talking about all the aspects and the different pros and cons of each approach.

Today's topic will be about infinite loops and mostly about infinite...

Hi everyone. I'm Jordan Dimitrov from the WPF team. I'm planing to post about .Net, first with few post about WPF. My first post is about resources and themes.

Recently I had a problem with resources from themes files. I tried to use DynamicResource markup extension in Style in generic.xaml (sample bellow). But it didn't work. I changed DynamicResource extension with StaticResource markup extension and now it works. But WHY DynamicResource doesn't work?

Sample XAML

In my generic.xaml there are two items - a style for my CustomControl1 and a resource SolidColorBrush with key brush1.

As you are probably aware resolution and device independence is one of the fundamental design goals of WPF. In order to achieve the desired effect the framework does not work directly with physical (device-dependent) pixels but abstracts this notion into device-independent measuring units like inches.

There are two main benefits that you get from this:

• Automatic DPI-aware scaling
• Sub-pixel positioning -- WPF coordinates use floating point numbers that theoretically give you the ability to draw with higher precision than the one provided by the ordinary pixel grid.

However, there is one nasty side-effect related to the fact that WPF graphics are anti-aliased by default...

A short time ago, in a land not so far away, I was back in college doing the whole evangelism thing part-time as a member of Microsoft's Student Partner program. I got a lot of exposure to some great Microsoft products and, most importantly, was able to spend a lot of time coming up with cool ways to show students how to dive head-first into .NET development.

At the end of my senior year, just before leaving the Student Partner program, I had this crazy idea that I could mosey on up to Redmond and say hi to the man behind the curtain...

This is my first post, and by obligation I have to say a few words as an introduction. I’m Mihail Valkov, and I have been working on component development at Telerik for several years. I know my name comes a bit mouthful for many of you, so I'll just use Mike for short. I'm the guy behind some of our Windows Forms components and part of the team that created the great TPF. I am excited of the many good things to come in our WinForms offering in the near future and I am determined to keep you posted about...

Introducing the RadCarousel component into our suite can be compared to what the BigBang was to the Universe in the early days. We’ve seen it all - from feature requests straight after its initial release, to statements it is worth as much as the entire suite. A few words of introduction - the RadCarousel animates a number of alternatives to choose from in a visually appealing way. RadCarousel animates the location, opacity and scale of its items. Items can be moved along any path described by a Bezier curve or an ellipse. These basic capabilities allow the control to be...

After digging around in Telerik's old Visual Source-Safe server, I found a long-forgotten prototype of a RadMenu skin.

I felt the urge to disclose it to you, and hope that you will like it.

On second thought, this initial draft looks good enough, so we might switch to hardware production. Don't be evil, we were first! Maybe we could even go 3G...

Ok now, getting serious - you could use this sort of menu for navigating when there is a large hierarchy in the site navigation (or, to be more specific, a hierarchy that has a wide tree). Currently, no...

Howdy! My name is Kevin Babcock and I’m the greenest Technical Evangelist on the Telerik team. I’m excited to have joined forces with the Telerik boys (and girls) and even more excited to talk to .NET developers about the great set of tools we provide.

But don’t think that’s all this blog is about. While I plan on providing some in-depth coverage of the Telerik tools and control suites, I also plan to dive deep into the heart of .NET and talk about some of the latest and greatest bits that Microsoft has released over the wire, the latest tips and tricks in...