Last week we wrote about our new ASP.NET DropDownList control taking some specific functions of our existing ComboBox control, but in a more lightweight and better performing manner. Continuing this trend, it’s time to introduce another of the new members of Telerik’s ASP.NET control suite – the SearchBox.

We have always tried to listen to our customers' feedback and act accordingly in order to provide the best service possible and deliver more than expected:). A common feature request that we are receiving these days is to provide token input that has the same functionality as the one that can be found in Facebook, for example. On a side note, we have noticed that every now and then there are customers, who are having a hard time configuring our RadComboBox in load on demand/autocomplete scenarios. Then an idea came to our minds. - “Hey, why don’t you extract the auto complete...

It’s yet another super exciting moment here at Telerik. We are once again ready to present you the next version of Windows Forms, now available for immediate download with the powerful Q2 2012 release of RadControls for WinForms. The second major edition of our toolbox for 2012 is packed with three brand-new controls, a slew of essential enhancements to the theming mechanism performance and memory usage, as well as various accessibility improvements.

Top new features across the Telerik’s WinForms suite include:

RadChartView - New lively chart control

The brand new ChartView control coming out-of-the-box facilitates data visualization, achieving stunning visual effects. On the...

Q2 2012 is coming close, so we decided that it’s time to gear you up for all the great goodies that are on their way. Today, we are going to show off one highly requested control in our Public Issue Tracker. As we are the first component vendor to introduce such a control in our WinForms suite and there are no established standards, we had some doubts about the name of the control. However, this is now out of question and here it is: RadAutoCompleteBox.

So, what exactly is RadAutoCompleteBox? RadAutoCompleteBox allows you to easily fill-in tokens of text in a...

Within the next few weeks, we intend to publish a series of posts that will introduce you to the new Search Enhancements that we have been working on intensively during the past month.

Being part of our overall Site Search Improvements program we would first like to present to you the Autocomplete functionality.

 

The new feature is already turned on for all the search fields on our website and we hope it really helps you get the needed search results faster and much more accurate.

This is a small but yet very helpful step leading to the general improvement of the search...