Telerik blogs
  • Release

    Telerik's Q3'11 brings codeless OData binding support for the AJAX and scatter chart for the MVC suite

    Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to. MVC Scatter Chart In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your...
    November 16, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Separate Skin Assembly in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX with Q3'11

    Probably all of us have identified at some point the following trend in software development — newer version usually means bigger assemblies. Sure, some of the new stuff is features that we use on a daily basis; but some of the new stuff is just eye candy that we don't always use. In fact, wouldn't it be nice if we could get just the software with the default looks; get the job done then and, if needed, add that sweet UI candy to it later? And in order to tackle this problem — maintain a reasonable file size of the main Telerik...
    November 15, 2011
  • Release

    Q3 2011 release with SPRadGrid WebPart

      Our ASP.NET AJAX Web Part for SharePoint 2010 featuring an extended version of Telerik’s most prominent control – RadGrid, will soon be released with the following improvements:   SPRadGrid Designer’s Persistence of Data-binding Parameters Till now SPRadGrid Designer gave you the opportunity to set SPRadGrid’s data-binding information in a user-friendly manner without, however, persisting it for subsequent page requests. In this way, if you needed to just slightly adjust the structure of, for example, a multi-level hierarchical grid with each level featuring its own data-source object and parent-child relations, all of these being set through the SPRadGrid Designer, upon a new request to...
    November 11, 2011
  • 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
  • Release

    Super-charged Performance Optimizations for Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX Grid in Q3 2011

    One of the most used features of Telerik’s Grid for ASP.NET AJAX is grouping and for some time now we have been receiving feature requests from customers regarding grouping performance optimization. This task was not so easy, but after some months of research, implementation and a lot of headaches we finally succeeded with this complex challenge! I want to introduce to you the new linq based grouping for Telerik’s Grid for ASP.NET AJAX which will be available in the Q3 2011 ajax release. The new grouping mechanism features incredible performance optimizations in scenarios with large data sources, containing thousands or millions of...
    November 08, 2011