We're going to bust the myth that ASP.Net web forms cannot output HTML5 and mobile friendly user interfaces. In this article, Jeff will show you some tips and tricks to adapt your ASP.Net web forms project to handle formatting for browsers on mobile devices.

Are you that do-it-yourself developer? Are you the developer that can build everything you need for a web site? If you’re a rockstar ninja developer, you don’t really need external libraries, controls, or anything! You can build all of the resources needed for a website project. We need to talk... here are several reasons why you may want to change your mind.

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.

Check out the latest status of the Conference Buddy applications being developed in Windows 8 (XAML and WinJS), Windows Phone, ASP.NET WebForms, and Windows Forms.

Have you often configured the authorization settings of your website to specify areas with special access rules? One of the common scenarios is to create a website that should be available only to authenticated users. When doing this, have you ever run into the strange behavior of a login page life cycle being executed multiple times when the access to all pages is denied for anonymous users? Read on to see why this happens and how you can avoid it with only a few changes in the web.config file of your website.

Although Telerik’s ASP.NET PivotGrid control is in still beta, it is getting full of useful features. Some of them are requested by our clients who have started using the control since its CTP release, and the other have to be implemented because the pivot table’s concept requires them. Below I am listing the most recently added functionalities:

1. PivotGrid ConfigurationPanel
2. Filtering
3. PivotGrid Layouts
4. Totals Placement Modes
5. Aggregates Position
6. Tooltips
7. Drag to Group
8. Range Grouping (Group Date, Time and Numeric Values)

PivotGrid ConfigurationPanel

The PivotGrid Configuration panel is similar to Excel PivotTable Field List and enables fields sorting, reordering and hiding operations. You could configure the Position, LayoutType, Showing ContextMenu via the ConfigurationPanelSettings class...

A few months ago, I blogged about Telerik’s ASP.NET RibbonBar control (or just ribbon for short) in general: why use it; a few words about the ribbon spec; improvements we have made and future plans we have for it.

Now, few days after the 2012 Q3 release, I am blogging about our progress in this area, as well as bringing up some other lesser known features of the ribbon.

What's old new in the Ribbon

I did mention this in my previous post, but perhaps I did not emphasize it enough: apart from complying with the MS specs more, we introduced two major features for...

It is not a secret that Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Editor is one of the most loved, top performing and frequently used Telerik controls. That is why one of our main goals is to continuously improve it and satisfy our clients’ requests for new and useful features. We keep that tradition with Q3 2012, by introducing two very powerful features:

Format Painter much like the one you've seen in MS Word®

The end user can utilize the FormatPainter tool to copy formatting from a piece of text and apply it to others in the content area of RadEditor. The tool is very similar to...

Developing for the mobile platform is all the rage right now – and rightfully so! I, for one, am tired of having either an experience that plain does not work on my device or having to zoom in and scroll around just to look up some quick information (time tables for busses are my nemesis). There are a few ways to develop against mobile devices like creating a web application that works in the devices browser, creating a hybrid application using HTML and a framework like PhoneGap, or just go plain native. As ASP.NET developers most likely we’ll want take...

On the 12^th of September was the official  Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch Event. I bet you have already installed it and learned about the latest fast and cool capabilities! As we always strive to bring you the best and most fluid experience when creating web apps using RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX within the new IDE, we released a new version that will enable you to take full advantage of its enhancements – the Q2 2012 SP2. On the very same day! You haven’t got it yet – get it now.

You can find the full details about the recent additions, new improvements and...