Telerik blogs
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Insert YouTube and Vimeo videos with RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX

    Starting from Q3 2011, the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX gets a new dialog - Insert External Video, which provides the ability to easily embed a YouTube or a Vimeo stream providing just the URL. Steps to insert a video: Open the  Insert External Video dialog and paste the copied video link into the Paste Youtube or Vimeo video URL textbox, e.g.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWv11JDPy24 To preview the video and enable the Embed video settings panel click outside of the textbox after you paste the URL. It is possible to configure the video using the Aspect ratio, Width and Height customization options, as well as to choose whether the video will play...
    November 09, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Easily add social networks buttons with RadSocialShare for ASP.NET AJAX

    Sharing on social networks has become a very powerful tool to make your website popular and to boost its traffic. We have made it easy to allow people to share content on social networks and via email by creating the new RadSocialShare control for ASP.NET AJAX. The control will officially be available in the Q3 2011 release later this month, but you can test drive it now in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q3 2011 BETA. Main features: Allows sharing the current page or a custom URL on different social networks. You can easily customize the sharing content –...
    November 04, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta - New Org Chart and Social Share controls, Metro skin and more

    The final major release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX for this year brings new controls, embedded Metro skin and a plethora of new features for the existing controls to the table. The Q3 2011 Beta preview which has just been uploaded on the site (both for TRIAL and COMMERCIAL users) grants a direct access to the pre-release bits to play with them at your disposal. Read on to learn more about the Beta: Org Chart | Social Share | Metro Skin | Items drag and drop on mobile The Premium Telerik AJAX component set grows with a couple more controls - Org Chart and...
    October 25, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    If you haven't heard, Odata is a Web protocol that exposes your data to the Web, allowing consumers to make queries through a set of URI parameters. RadGrid, Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX Grid control features a rich client-side API that enables you to easily bind to OData services and have all the paging, sorting and filtering done without ever posting the page to the server. That is all fine if your data is flat. Binding to hierarchical data, however, is another story. RadGrid officially supports hierarchical databinding on the server only. But let's go unofficial for a while. In this blog post we'll demonstrate an approach for detail table databinding...
    October 03, 2011
  • Release

    Q2 2011 SP1 AJAX and MVC service packs

    Right in the apogee of THE //build conference when the Microsoft developer community is impatiently swallowing the news revolving around the future of the Windows and .NET development, we are delivering for you the service pack releases for the Telerik AJAX and MVC product lines. And not to distract you from collecting the information that is pouring every day over the mass media, I will briefly give you the highlights (in terms of enhancements) of our maintenance releases. RadControls for...
    September 15, 2011