It has been more than a year since the last time we discussed WebAPI with WebForms, and a lot has changed in that time. Microsoft has released a 1.0 release of WebAPI and Telerik now supports using WebAPI as a client-side datasource for many of our controls. In this article, I will show you how to configure WebAPI to work with one of Telerik’s most popular controls, our Grid for ASP.NET AJAX. Without changing the appearance of the grid, I will convert the grid from server-side databinding to client-side databinding and show you how it supports sorting, filtering and paging with WebAPI.

You need to persist the settings of your controls? Look no further as our Persistence Framework is now out of beta. Read the fully story now.

Q1 is already behind our back and we took the time right after it to sit down and carefully think about our next steps. We were trying to answer questions like where we want to be in Q2, what the main customer scenarios are, how we can help our customers achieve those scenarios, how we can use our resources in the most efficient way, who we’re targeting, etc. As a result we outlined a comprehensive plan including tons of significant improvements and new features as well as major new initiatives that will take Telerik DevCraft to another level in Q2 2013.

I’ve been noticing that people use the word “callback” for almost any request to the server, but in ASP it has its own meaning and there are many other ways to call the server. So, I wanted to make a few clarifications and a quick list.

Wondering how to customize the cells of RadPivotGrid? Read the full story about the recently-introduced template support to find out.

Blog post about the new control of the Telerik's ASP.NET Ajax suite - RadDropDownTree.

RadPivotGrid comes out with a full-fledged support for OLAP data sources and features a handy OLAP browser.

Have you ever experienced difficulties with hitting a button on a touch screen because of the button’s small size? Haven’t you wished texts were larger so you don’t need to zoom-in to read?

No more troubles - our new MetroTouch skin for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls is coming on board with Q2 2012, expected in about a week!

 

 

The Dimensions

Fingertip - 11mm - 32px

Dimensions are the biggest difference introduced in the MetroTouch skin. Almost every UI element has its regions and boundaries adjusted to a touch-friendly size of around 11mm at 72dpi per clickable area.

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This is the third and last in a series of blog posts on the new client-side databinding features we've introduced to RadListView with the Q1 2012 release. In the first blog post, we introduced you to the basics of client-side databinding in RadListView - how to define HTML templates, how to use binding expressions and what properties does the binding context provide for greater flexibility. In the second blog post we showed you how easy it is to bind to any kind of web services. In this blog post, let's dive deeper into the client-side databinding internals in RadListView. We'll see how to implementing paging, sorting and filtering to...

This is the second in a series of blog posts on the new RadListView client-side databinding features. In the first post, we introduced you to the basics of HTML templates, binding expressions and the databinding model in RadListView. In this post, we will see how RadListView supports automatic (read codeless) databinding to web services and JSON feeds.

For a quick reference, here is a brief list of the sections in this blog post:

1. Web Service Types And Requirements
2. How Web Service Binding Works
3. RadListView DataService Settings
4. Supported HTTP Methods And Default Parameters
5. Binding To ASMX Web Services
6. Binding To WCF Services
7. Binding To OData Services
8. Binding To Any General JSON Feed

Web Service Types...