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  • Alan avatar

    Posted on Feb 27, 2008 (permalink)

    I am evaluating RADControls for .net and would like to use the self-paced tutorial. I have downloaded the zip but do not know what to do with it now.  Where do I unzip it to and how do I start the tutorial?

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  • Poul Henningsen Master Poul Henningsen's avatar

    Posted on Feb 29, 2008 (permalink)

    --Alan,

    As far as I remember, the self-paced tutorial is in the PDF file (http://www.telerik.com/documents/TelerikRadControlsASPNET_tutorial.pdf) and the zip archive contains the projects mentioned in the tutorial.

    Cheers, Poul

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  • Alan avatar

    Posted on Feb 29, 2008 (permalink)

    Thanks for the info.  That helped a lot.  One problem I have is that the self paced tutorial and most of the other help I have found implies the use of the classic RadControls rather than Prometheus which is what I have down loaded.  Since I am new to Telerik, I felt it would make sense to use the latest and greatest, but the lack of Prometheus specific help is causing me to have second thoughts.  If the basic concepts are still the same for Prometheus as for classic, I would like to stay with it rather than regress to classic.  What is advised?

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  • Answer Telerik Admin admin's avatar

    Posted on Feb 29, 2008 (permalink)

    Hello Alan,

    We are now working on providing a Self-Paced tutorial for RadControls "Prometheus". This is the only resource which we have not updated with a "Prometheus" version yet -- all other resources are available for "Prometheus" controls as well: Online Documentation, Online Examples, etc

    Regards,
    Ivo
    the Telerik team

    Instantly find answers to your questions at the new Telerik Support Center

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  • TonyG avatar

    Posted on Jun 16, 2008 (permalink)

    Ivo, I'd really like to see that Promethius-specific doc.  I'm working with the current trial and the old tutorial and the differences are causing a lot of stuttering.  I'll even take a beta at this point, it has to be better than trying to apply old demos to new code.  For example:

     The very first example in the tutorial has a screenshot of markup code – it’s missing a script manager, which means it couldn’t possibly run as documented. As mentioned elsewhere, the tutorial in general is great but it wasn't really QA'd well.
    - The namespace for RadAjaxManager is now Telerik.Web.UI, not Telerik.WebControls.
    - Page 35, LoadingPanel should be LoadingPanelID.
    - There is no "EnableOutsideScripts", only "EnableEmbeddedScripts".
    - Page 36, Images are here:
    C:\Program Files\Telerik\RadControls for ASPNET AJAX Q1 2008\Live Demos\Ajax\Img
    There's also:
    C:\Program Files\Telerik\RadControls for ASPNET AJAX Q1 2008\Live Demos\Skins\Default\Ajax
    - I don’t think people need to worry about the visibility issue with dpEnd anymore, and divEnd isn’t required anymore, so a copy/paste of the code will need some tweaks.
    - It’s not AjaxLoadingPanel1, it’s RadAjaxLoadingPanel1.
    The DateTime properties need to be nullable, so the return types for them need to be changed to “DateTime?".

    Yes, and the list goes on, but I fully understand that this doc was written against a different release of the software.  In fact, by paying very close attention and actually making things work I'm sure I've learned even more about the software.  But I really don't have time for forensic analysis of doc vs software right now, I need to evaluate this product and try to do some prototypes to justify the expense, so I'm on the fast-track and can't afford to be slowed down by old docs.  So please... updates are welcome, even partial updates as they become available...

    Apologies for the gripes, and simultaneous thanks to Lino and the folks at Falafel. I don't know you guys at all but I recently saw the TelerikTV session and was very impressed with your app. Then I saw a ton of the other vids on this site that you guys do - Wow - major thanks for all your community effort, and good luck with your software offerings.

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  • Posted on Jun 18, 2008 (permalink)

    Thanks Tony!

    I appreciate the nice words.
    We are working on the new Self paced courseware very hard. It will be a very strong courseware, I promise.
    Thanks for your pointers as well about the older courseware but as you said, it was not meant to work with the new Ajax radcontrols, it is almost a brand new product and requires a new courseware.
    If you are using the classic radControls, than yes, the courseware is complete and QAed :)

    Cheers
    Lino

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