In case you missed Todd's announcement, Telerik welcomed two new evangelists back in September. Many of you have met (or maybe already knew) John and Gabe at the many conferences we've been attending lately. Last month we were at DevReach in Bulgaria and PDC in Los Angeles, and next week we'll be at DevConnections in Las Vegas. During PDC Todd recorded a nice introduction video for all of us in an episode of Telerik Watch Minute (I'm the goofy guy in the Howdy shirt). But whether you've met John and Gabe or not, how many of you...

For the past several months, we've been rebuilding & redesigning the Telerik.com web site.  Our existing web site had served us very well, but it was beginning to show some age.  We were anxious to utilize some of the newer techniques & technologies available to us and, in the end, hopefully offer a better experience to our customers.

Telerik.com is a big a web site and rebuilding it wasn't a trivial task.  Not only does Telerik.com get a lot of traffic, but it also contains a TON of content (product information, demos, support articles, forum posts, etc.).  To support this task we needed a...

As you probably know by know the Q3 2008 release is out. In this release we included the jQuery JavaScript library in our scripts. For now only RadTreeView and RadScheduler benefit from it but we plan deeper jQuery integration in the future. In this blog post I will show you how to use the built-in jQuery file in your projects.

Including jQuery

If you have RadScheduler or RadTreeView in your page jQuery is already included so you can skip to the next paragraph. If not - read ahead.

1. Add a ScriptReference pointing to Core.js as we use a slightly customized version of jQuery which...

The Q3 2008 release is now out and I am glad to inform you that RadScriptManager provides support for ASP.NET MVC view and master pages. What this means is that RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax can be used in ASP.NET MVC. We have tested with the ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 release.

Using RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax in ASP.NET MVC View Pages

1. Add an instance of RadScriptManager to your view page (or master page). Make sure the required HTTP handlers are properly registered (can be done from the smart tag in design time).

2. Add a control to your view page or master page. The following...

About a year ago, Microsoft launched a cool new program called DreamSpark to help students get started learning to use Microsoft development technologies. DreamSpark allows students to access a wide range of development software from a secure site, allowing them download fully-licensed products like Visual Studio 2008 Professional, SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition, Windows Server 2008, and XNA Game Studio 2.0, among others. I have always thought this was a cool initiative on Microsoft's part to help those developers who don't have the financial means to gain access to these products themselves.

Well, it seems Microsoft is at it again. Today S....

Recently there was a question posted on the Telerik forums asking if there were plans to include some Telerik Trainer videos for the RadControls for WinForms.  The timing of this question was great since there was already a video being produced on this very topic.  If you haven't experienced the Telerik Trainer, you are missing out.  It presents video content on a given topic with the ability to jump to any part of that video via the Table of Contents.  Additionally, when there is code being presented as part of the video the Telerik Trainer allows you open the code for...

Just before our Q3 release I've made quick test to see how the grid will perform with 1 mil. records table and here is the result:

In this example the grid is bound with our new client-side declarative approach to a static page method:

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Telerik Sitefinity evangelist Gabe Sumner and Telerik Chief Evangelist Todd Anglin co-host another case study on Telerik TV. This month, they interview Amith Nagarajan from Aptify as he discusses why his company chose Telerik as their CMS provider and shows off how they use Sitefinity on their website, Aptify.com. Aptify, which Amith founded in 1993, provides powerful enterprise-level software built to meet the specific needs of many industries. So be sure to drop by Telerik TV and watch as Amith shows how easy it was to use Sitefinity CMS to build a powerful and flexible web site....

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

RADCONTROLS FOR ASP.NET AJAX

RadScheduler

Knowledge base articles

• External skins break the Image of the DatePicker button:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbk-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx
• How to access controls in the advanced form:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbg-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx
• How to go to a specific date in Day View by clicking on the date cell in Month View:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbm-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx

RadMenu

Knowledge base articles

• How to make the last root item stretch to the entire width of the the browser:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbt-b454T-a-b454c-a.aspx

RadUpload

Help topics

• Troubleshooting > Ajax callback error...

For those of us who were not lucky enough to go to the PDC this week, Microsoft published all the video recordings online at the Channel9 website. If you have been there you should have seen the Telerik booth and some of my colleagues - we were once again the gold sponsor of the conference.

There are eleven sessions for Silverlight - see them all here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/pdc2008.silverlight/

If you don't have the time to watch them all - here is my Top3 recommended list:

1. Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications
   Jamie Cool talks about the future releases of Silverlight components focused entirely on the LOB scenarios. You...