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Q1 2009 Beta. RadControls just underwent a serious “surgical” intervention, cutting deep into the skin – removing excess CSS, streamlining look & feel across controls, adding transparent .PNG to replace .GIFs, you name it. For a taste of things to come, here is a link to our new Web Mail demo, and its source. You can also check the screenshots below.

 

Two complete skins were rolled out for the beta – namely a brand new (and color neutral) Default skin, as well as Vista. Another...

The countdown to Q1 – Telerik’s first major release for 2009 begins today!

As usual, the new volume comes full of surprises as well as new additions and major improvements to all product lines—RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms, and WPF, as well as Telerik Reporting and OpenAccess ORM. What’s more, with Q1 we are adding a brand new product to Telerik’s portfolio – WebUI Test Studio (powered by ArtOfTest), which will revolutionize the way automated web testing is done.

In the upcoming weeks until the official Q1 2009, we’ll be sharing with you the major highlights of the release – one piece at...

Yes, Telerik is adding a new product to its portfolio! Maybe you are already aware of that thanks to the numerous blog posts and comments in the press. What you might be still curious to learn, though, is how Telerik will keep its promise of opening a new era in automated web testing.

The motivation behind this product is simple – most companies today don’t use automated testing! Why? Well, simply because the current tools are very complex, very expensive and very generic. If you want to test a slick web 2.0 application with more-than-basic interactivity you simply can’t. And if...

UPDATE: Visual Studio 2010 does not have the Ajax-Enabled Web Site template as well. It always creates an ajax enabled web sites/applications, so what you need to do is just check if the ScriptManager is on your page.

If you use RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax with Visual Studio 2005 you should be familiar with the Add New > ASP.NET Ajax-Enabled Web Site template. This is the option that you often choose in the add New Web Site dialog:

Selecting this template gives you two benefits:

1. Your web.config file is automatically configured to use ASP.NET Ajax so you do not have to do anything manually.

2. The default...

A couple of weeks ago I did a quick review of the white papers we have on RadControls for WinForms and it turned out that they, just like humans, age with time. Although still valid, the white papers were outdated, so we decided to rejuvenate them.

The first white paper which we brought up to date is “Building WPF-like Interfaces with RadControls for WinForms." In addition to bringing WPF to the equation (it used to compare our WinForms suite to Windows Vista, which was hype back when the original white paper was published two years ago), it received a new...

I'm very excited to announce that the Q1 Beta version of RadScheduler features a completely new Web Service binding mode. This is an important milestone in our quest for top performance.

In this mode all operations are forwarded to a Web Service for processing using JSON for transport. This completely eliminates the need for postbacks and improves server load and bandwidth usage.

The Firebug screenshot below demonstrates a typical RadScheduler session (with primed browser cache) using Web Service binding:

The live demo demonstrates how to set-up RadScheduler using Web Service binding. The process is straight-forward and will be even easier after the final release....

Telerik Reporting comes with all essential report items in the Visual Studio toolbox to help you more easily design rich reports. One such report item, the PictureBox, is used to display images on a report. The PictureBox is simple and easy-to-use like the other report items, but in this post I’d like to highlight a couple of its features so that you can take full advantage of its capabilities. Specifically, I will discuss the data binding and layout features that are unique to the PictureBox item.

Data Binding

Binding image data to a PictureBox report item is very straight-forward. If you’re using the...

I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes...

• Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 1
• Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 2
• Introducing the RadInputManager for ASP.NET AJAX
• Manual Ajax Requests Using the RadAjax Client-Side API

If you’re interested in these...

Hi guys,

We've been having requests for the feature in the title for some time and finally we were able to introduce it in the Q3 SP2 release. 

Generally user functions allow you to extend the default behavior of the Telerik Reporting engine. They are public static  (Public Shared in VB.NET) methods that should always return a value and can take an arbitrary number of input parameters depending on your needs. They are public static, because they are not related to a concrete instance of a report. They are executed by the expression engine and work in the context of the report processing. If you...

You know Telerik's commitment to provide cross platform Silverlight and WPF controls with shared code base.

Now that you have all those cross platform controls (more to come in Q1) - what is  the next step you need to do in order to have your application working in SL/WPF with a shared codebase? This is an easy question - you need to use the guidance provided from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft ofcourse :). There is now official documentation on msdn available.

Here is an extract from the project description from the codeplex site:

"The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. This...