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  • Mobile

    RadControls on iPhone: Part 2

    In part one of this three part series, we looked at RadAjax, RadCalendar, RadChart, RadCombobox, RadDock, and RadEditor running on the iPhone. We found most of those controls run relatively well on the iPhone with the exception of RadEditor. In this second installment, we'll look at another batch of RadControls and pass judgment on their usability. Each control will be deemed either usable, semi-usable, or unusable on the iPhone so that you can quickly tweak your applications (or build new ones) for iPhone users. Today's lucky controls are RadGrid, RadInput, RadMenu, RadPanelbar, RadRotator, and RadSpell. During all of my tests with these controls, the...
    July 25, 2007
  • Mobile

    RadControls on iPhone: Part 1

    Love it or hate it (as those seem to be the only two options), the iPhone is here and there are already over a million people using it to surf the "real Internet" in their pockets. And if there is anything I love more than ASP.NET and the RadControls, it's gadgets. So naturally I had to replace my "so last season" BlackBerry 8300 with an 8GB iPhone soon after it came out (which, for those that care, I love and fully recommend).One thing Steve Jobs and Apple stressed during the marketing blitz leading up to the iPhone's release is that...
    July 16, 2007
  • Web

    Working with Zip Files: Part II, Zipping Files

    In part one, we looked at how you can use RadUpload and the open source SharpZipLib to easily upload and expand zip archives. Today, we'll look at the other end of the process: creating new zip files on the server and then making them available for users to download. To do this, we'll extend the sample we created in part one. As you recall, our sample already enables users to upload a zip file that contains image files and then the server automatically extracts all images to a target directory. We'll extend this demo by creating a text file and then zipping...
    July 13, 2007
  • Web

    Working with Zip files: Part I, Uploading and Expanding

    Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to automatically zip and unzip archives with ASP.NET? It may be easier than you think thanks to the powerful SharpZipLib open source library. This library provides you with a number of easy to use tools for working with Zip (and GZip, Tar, and BZip2, for that matter) archives in .NET code that make the task of creating and expanding compressed archives relatively easy. Today we're going to look at how you can use RadUpload and SharpZipLib to upload a Zip archive and then expand it on the server. For our scenario, let's pretend...
    July 10, 2007
  • Web

    How to: Optimize RadCombobox Ajax

    One of the nice things about attending conferences like TechEd is all of the direct feedback you get from Telerik "fans" (people that use the RadControls everyday and love them). These fans love to use the RadControls and they also love to push the controls to their limits. That often leads to some interesting questions, such as this one I was presented with at the Telerik booth:"Is it possible to delay the RadCombobox autocomplete callback until a certain number of characters have been typed? Or is it possible to delay the callback so that it doesn't start until users stop...
    June 18, 2007