It may be a bit late for the "Merry Christmas" part, but as people say it's better late than never. Hopefully all of you reading my blog have spent the holiday with your families and not in front of the PC and my best wishes are coming at the right time:)

I wish you all (customers, non-customers, colleagues, partners, friends, competition) a great Year 2008. I hope that it will bring all of us joy, happiness and, above all, good health!

Wish you all a wonderful New Year's Eve celebration and a very successful Year...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET/WinForms controls and Telerik Reporting:

ASP.NET

RadGrid Classic and RadGrid Prometheus

Code library entries:

• Group by month:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbccad.aspx
• Set focus on filter textbox after filtering:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbcmdg.aspx

RadChart Classic and RadChart Prometheus

Online examples:

• Numerical axis:
  http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Chart/Examples/Functionality/NumericalAxis/DefaultCS.aspx
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Chart/Examples/Functionality/NumericalAxis/DefaultCS.aspx
• Drill-down chart:
  http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Chart/Examples/Functionality/DrillDown/DefaultCS.aspx
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Chart/Examples/Functionality/DrillDown/DefaultCS.aspx

RadScheduler

Online examples:

• Limiting the number of simultaneous appointments:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Scheduler/Examples/LimitingAppointmentsNumber/DefaultCS.aspx

Knowledge base articles:

• Pinning all day appointments for different time zones:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mhe-b454T-a-b454c-a.aspx

RadEditor Classic and RadEditor Prometheus

Online examples:

• Xhtml validator, FormatCodeBlock and TrackChanges dialogs:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Editor/Examples/XhtmlValidatorTrackChangesFormatCodeBlockDialogs/DefaultCS.aspx
• Validators:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Editor/Examples/Validators/DefaultCS.aspx
• Built-in and custom modules:
  http://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Editor/Examples/BuiltinCustomModules/DefaultCS.aspx

Knowledge base articles:

• Restricting sub-folder access in RadEditor's File Browser Dialogs:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mma-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx
• Overriding RadEditor on prerender and adding two custom dialogs to its toolbar:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mmk-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx

RadWindow Prometheus

Help topics:

• Setting RadWindow / RadWindowManager properties server-side
• Setting the...

As promised, I am following up with the second part of the work we have done on RadGridView during the past release.

If you have read the first part, you would remember that our goal was to provide a stable, fast and usable GridView product which has to live up to Telerik’s high standards. In  Re-engineering RadGridView for WinForms (part I) I talked about:

• Improvements to the UI and element painting in the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF), which raised RadGridView’s painting speed with some 30-60%, depending on the scenario the grid is used in; 
• Performance improvements in the data layer, which had an astonishing...

Shortly after the release of Q2 2007 SP1 in October we have started re-factoring RadGridView for WinForms. Our aim was to provide our clients with a stable, performing and usable product - tasks of great importance both to our customers, and to us being the supporting party.

Last week we released the beta of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2007, which includes our newest controls, but it does not give much details on our progress with vNEXT of RadGridView. So I decided to provide you with an update of the current standing of our RadGridView for WinForms control and our future...

If I have to summarize this post in four words, they would be: Falafel did it again. Sometimes I think that these guys work even during their spare time to prove their efficiency and professional attitude once again. Anyway, one more support videos package was just published on the Telerik site, special gratitude to Noel Rice for the involvement.

If you are interested in learning more about RadGrid and how to customize it in various scenarios, now is the time to broaden your knowledge and increase your grid coding skills. Do not wait any longer and visit this link:

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

Stephen

Note: Stand by for more RadControls videos which are...

Join Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist Todd Anglin as he introduces you to Telerik's brand new suite of components for Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0. This is the first time the RadControls for Silverlight 2.0 have ever been shown in public, so don't miss your opportunity to be among the first to see what Telerik is doing in the Silverlight space.  Anyone considering Silverlight development in 2008 should attend this event to learn how leading .NET UI component vendor Telerik is going to make it easy to develop professional applications on this brand new framework with very little code.

The webcast will be on Friday, December...

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

RadGrid

Code library entries:

• Individual filtering (with dropdown lists) and sorting for sub-columns in RadGrid template column:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-khebd.aspx
• Filtering and sorting for GridButtonColumn:
  http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-baghhh.aspx

RadComboBox

Knowledge base articles:

• RadComboBox changes width/height:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mgh-b454T-bmc-b454c-bmc.aspx 

RadScheduler

Knowledge base articles:

• Using GUIDs as appointment primary keys with SQL Server:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mgm-b454T-cgm-b454c-cgm.aspx

RadEditor Classic and RadEditor "Prometheus"

Help topics for RadEditor "Prometheus":

• Handling content -> Setting Editor Background And Color
• Handling content -> Expanding RadEditor "Prometheus" Height
• Migration from RadEditor Classic to RadEditor "Prometheus"  

Knowledge base articles:

• Converting Unicode symbols to numeric HTML entities using a content filter:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mtg-b454T-a-b454c-a.aspx
• Error: "'Telerik' is undefined" when using OutputCache directive:
  http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mgt-b454T-cgt-b454c-cgt.aspx
• Error: Could not load file or assembly 'Telerik.Web.UI,...

Scary, isn't it?

With a brand new Vista and VS2008 on my laptop, I was just about to migrate some old projects of mine in the new studio format. The conversion wizard went smoothly but when I tried to rebuild the accompanying C# website I was greeted by the following dreadful error message:

The CodeDom provider type "Microsoft.VJSharp.VJSharpCodeProvider, VJSharpCodeProvider, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" could not be located.



That's it. No File, no line, no project. Nowhere to look for the specific problem. Yay!

A check of the web.config and the project references showed nothing suspicious -- google seemed to be the only reasonable option. A...