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Telerik Admin | #
12/5/2007 11:24:30 AM
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We are very pleased to announce the availability of our new “Futures” build of RadControls “Prometheus”. This new build includes our latest developments on all controls in the suite. We are dedicated to involve the community with our progress and hear your feedback on the new features and improvements we have been working on.

The new “Futures” build introduces a preview of several key additions to the “Prometheus” suite – RadGrid, RadMenu, RadCombobox and RadUpload. These controls now take full advantage of ASP.NET AJAX framework and have significantly improved client-side behavior. Performance and HTML output has also been improved across all new Prometheus products. The “Futures” also bring latest enhancements in the rest of the Prometheus controls. Please note that this is a work-in-progress and some of the features are still in development and QA.

The “Futures Build” (Telerik.Web.UI_2007_3_1205) is now available for download in your Client.Net accounts. Please see attached screenshot.

ONLINE DEMOS

RadGrid

  • Significant performance optimizations
  • Optimized data-binding logic
  • Improved client-side behavior
  • Full compliance with the MS AJAX conventions

Features that are not yet 100% functional but will be fully implemented in the coming weeks:

  • Native Export to Excel with option to customize the exported document appearance prior to the export action
  • Built-in columns with RadDatePicker, RadInput and RadComboBox editors
  • Virtual scrolling/paging
  • Client group load mode
  • Client side delete
  • showItem/hideItem/exportToExcel/ExportToWord client-side methods for GridTableView

RadMenu

  • New client-side API for adding/deleting/updating of items at the client-side and persisting the changes at the server
  • Populating the menu through a WebService
  • Improved performance with large number of items
  • New context menu control with clean and flexible API
  • Full compliance with the MS AJAX conventions

RadCombobox

  • New client-side API for adding/deleting/updating of items at the client-side and persisting the changes at the server
  • Populating the combobox through a WebService (new properties - ServicePath, ServiceMethod)
  • Improved Html rendering (The RadCombobox' input is now rendered as a table. Therefore, FixUp is not needed to fix any width/height glitches upon rendering. The RadCombobox' dropdown is now rendered as "ul" and "li" elements. This allows the drop-down to resize to accommodate the longest item. There is no need to set DropDownWidth)
  • Full compliance with the MS AJAX conventions
  • ContentFile is no longer used. LoadContentFile method is used instead.
  • ExternalCallBackPage is no longer used.
  • RadComboBox.IsCallback has been removed. Page.IsCallBack should be used instead
  • Load On Demand is now based on MS Ajax (ICallbackEventHandler interface)
  • GetXmlString is now GetXml (inherited from ControlItemContainer class)
  • LoadXmlString is now LoadXml (inherited from ControlItemContainer class)

RadUpload

  • New optimized HTML rendering
  • InputSize property to control the width of the file input elements
  • Full compliance with the MS AJAX conventions

RadEditor (updates)

  • RadEditor will now no longer execute scripts in the content
  • Support for @import rules in the editor content area stylesheets.
  • AutoResizeHeight property - When set to true the editor's height will grow or shrink with the content
  • Improved the XHTML output in Firefox
  • Fixed a problem with Firefox and full HTML page content