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Introduction
More about RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
Licensing
Installation and deployment
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Fundamentals
Controls
- RadAjax
- RadCalendar
- RadChart
- RadColorPicker
- RadComboBox
- RadDock
- RadEditor
- RadGrid
- RadFileExplorer
- RadInput
- RadMenu
  - Overview
  - What is New
  - Migrating From RadMenu ASP.NET to ASP.NET AJAX
  - Changes and backward compatibility
  - Getting Started
  - Usability
  - Design Time
  - Data Binding
  - RadMenu Items
  - Web Pages
  - Templates
  - Context Menus
  - Appearance and Styling
  - Server-Side Programming
  - Client-Side Programming
  - Example Scenarios (How To)
  - Troubleshooting
- RadListBox
- RadPanelBar
- RadRotator
- RadScheduler
- RadSlider
- RadSpell
- RadSplitter
- RadTabStrip
- RadToolBar
- RadToolTip
- RadTreeView
- RadUpload
- RadWindow
- RadFormDecorator
- RadScriptManager
- RadStyleSheetManager
- RadSkinManager
- RadCompression
- RadBinaryImage
- Controlling absolute positioning with z-index
- RadCaptcha
- RadXmlHttpPanel
- Changes and backwards compatibility in RadControls latest release
- RadControls compared to the standard Microsoft controls in Visual Studio
Integrating RadControls in MOSS
Visual Studio Extensions
Integrating RadControls in DNN
Integrating RadControls in ASP.NET MVC
API Reference
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Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX is a flexible navigation component for use in ASP.NET applications. Telerik RadContextMenu is a related control that shares the powerful features of RadMenu, but which acts as a context menu or popup menu. Using RadMenu and RadContextMenu, you get

A client-side API that includes the ability to add, remove and update menu items and have these changes persist after a postback to the server.
Numerous options in how to define the item hierarchy, including
- Defining items statically at design time.
- Creating items dynamically in server-side code.
- Creating items dynamically in client-side code.
- Loading Items from an XML file or string.
- Loading Items from a Web Service.
- Binding to all ASP.NET declarative DataSource components, including SiteMapDataSource.
Extensive keyboard support, covering both web (access keys and tab) and windows (arrows).
Many options for controlling appearance, including
- The ability to add images to items
- Control over the layout of items.
- Animations to customize the way child items appear and disappear.
- Built-in skins to quickly change the look and feel.
- Style sheet support for individual items.
- The ability to create your own custom skins.
- Support for right-to-left locales.
- Support for templates.
Custom attributes to extend the capabilities of the menu items.
Lightweight markup (no tables).
Compliance to multiple standards.
Overlay support. RadMenu can display its items over IE windowed objects such HTML select boxes, Flash movies, and so on. This built-in feature does not need to be set explicitly through a property.
Screen boundary detection. The list of child items expands to the opposite direction when necessary to prevent screen boundaries from being crossed.
Cross-page postbacks, which let you direct postbacks from the menu to a different Web page.
Support for ASP.NET validation.
Support for all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Netscape 7.0 and above (PC -- Netscape 7.1 for Mac and Linux), Mozilla 1.0 and above (all operating systems), Firefox 0.8 and above (all operating systems), Opera 7.5 and above, and Safari 1.3 and above.