Carried away in working on all fronts, we completely forgot to organize a big bash for Telerik’s 5th birthday.  Time flies fast – I remember well how 5 years ago I was sitting with the other founders in a small room and we could never reach consensus what kind of music we should play (having a rule not to have a headset and be mindful about the other people’s preferences is a good team-building exercise).

We had to settle for “just” a team-building event in the mountains and quietly celebrate our "Best Employer" award and our fifth anniversary but another development came...

Several days ago, a customer of ours had an interesting issue with RadWindow and Telerik Reporting. The idea was to show a ReportViewer in a RadWindow while the RadWindow automatically resizes itself to fit the dimensions of the content page. I thought this would be a nice example to have, therefore I have created a small sample based on this task and filmed it. I hope it will be of help for the community :)

Generally speaking, the steps that must be taken in such scenario are:

1. Create a new web site with RadWindow and set up the database (in the...

Last Friday was a very big day for Telerik, but as I was on the plane I couldn’t blog about it immediately. I am very excited to share that we received the 2007 award for best employer in the “Small and Medium Business” category in Bulgaria. The study is conducted by Hewitt Associates, the world's largest provider of multi-service HR business process outsourcing (BPO), and surveyed over 13,000 professionals from 70 of the leading companies and MNCs operating in Bulgaria.

A few months ago, when we decided to participate, our goal was pretty simple – to see what are the problem areas...

Well into Q3 development, I am pleased to announce our Q3 2007 development plans for two of Teleriks’s product lines: Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms.

My name is Vassil Petev, a new face on Telerik’s blogs, and I am the Product Manager of RadControls for WinForms. I was one of the first people to join Telerik back in 2004 as part of the support team, and progressed my way through being a Client Service Director. Currently I am managing and supporting Telerik Reporting and Telerik WinForms product suites.

As most of you know, we will be releasing the Q3...

Our friends from Falafel never stop to amaze me - it seems that these guys never sleep :) Now seriously, there is a bunch of new videos we have uploaded few days ago on telerik.com that are worth taking a look at. So if you want to spare several minutes of your time and learn more about the flexible object model and features of RadGrid here is the link you should visit:

http://www.telerik.com/support/videos.aspx

I personally like the zooming feature and the easy section navigation from the leftmost TOC section of the video. Naturally, we will follow the idea and all future videos (Falafel's or Telerik's) will take advantage of these...

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to let you know that recently our partners from Falafel software created four pretty cool RadGrid videos (with zooming, section navigation, narration and so on). They are about some of the built-in grid features and you can check them out in the Support -> Videos section on telerik.com:

1. Paging:
   http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/35/
2. Grouping and Sorting:
   http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/36/
3. Filtering and Scrolling:
   http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/37/
4. Aggregate column with total in footer:
   http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/38/

Enjoy (and of course let us know what other types of videos you would be most interested to see) ;)

Stephen...

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

RadGrid

Videos:

• Automatic operations with SqlDataSource control:
  http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/32/

RadCalendar

Code library entries

• Non-mandatory date picker showing Today's date:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-baetke.aspx
• Validation of non-mandatory date picker control:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-baetkt.aspx

RadEditor "Prometheus"

Online examples:

• Custom dialogs:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Editor/Examples/CustomDialogs/DefaultCS.aspx
• Toolbar mode:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Editor/Examples/ToolbarMode/DefaultCS.aspx
• Keyboard support:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Editor/Examples/KeyboardSupport/DefaultCS.aspx

Help topics:

• Dialogs -> Add Custom Dialogs (not uploaded yet)

Videos:

• Localizing RadEditor by using global resource files:
  http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/30/

RadEditor

Knowledge base articles:

• Inserting OBJECT tags via the Media Manager:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mke-b454T-a-b454c-a.aspx

Help topics:

• Getting / Setting Content -> Loading Content from DIV/SPAN on the main page into RadEditor within a dialog:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/editor/?LoadingContentfromDIV_SPANPlacedIntoRadEditorInADialog.html
• Troubleshooting > Appearance of Greek symbols on pasting from Word:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/editor/?AppearanceOfGeekSymbolsOnPastingFromWord.html
• Troubleshooting > Appearance of odd characters after saving RadEditor's content in Database:
  http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/editor/?AppearanceOfOddCharactersAfterSavingRadEditorsContentInDatabase.html
• Handling Content -> Setting Target...

Silverlight is a Blast!

And instead of trying to convince you, we present you a well-known game in its silverlit clothes. The minesweeper! It adds to other games that in the past several weeks have shown the ease with which you can use Silverlight to create online interaction and games. It uses no fancy frameworks but underlines the simplicity and straightforwardness of Silverlight development.

The number of mines and the rows/columns are configurable. To mark a mine - instead to click with the right mouse button, click with the left mouse button while holding the CTRL or SHIFT key.


Try the game:

The...

Some time ago a client of ours asked us whether he can use the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit with ClickOnce. Although we have a KB article on how to deploy the WinForms suite with ClickOnce, we do not have explicit instructions on doing this with the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit. So, here they are.

Applications built with CAB have always caused problems when it is time to deploy them with ClickOnce. Applications built with the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit or (TCEK for short) are no different. Why this is considered such a painful task?
Well, to most extent because CAB...

Hello,

This one is live from the Mandalay Bay Hotel at Las Vegas... ok I admit it's a bit late but better later than never;). DevConnections'07 is turning to be a really great event this year and I hope you had the chance to actually make it to the hot spot as well -- man, it's awesome!!!

It's been quite a busy day today but alongside the fatigue there is pretty much a sense of delight among all of us here that we were able to share with you all the good stuff that is coming from the Telerik Labs....