RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

Q1'09 release takes the industry’s leading web suite to a higher level of performance and visual appeal. Natively built on top of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX, the Telerik AJAX UI controls boast new client-side features and revamped skins for the most demanding Web 2.0 applications.

Watch the What’s new in ASP.NET and Silverlight webinar on Telerik TV.

Common for All Controls

  • Appearance
    All Telerik skins now get a major facelift for greater consistency and appeal across skin elements such as rows, buttons, headers, selected states, disabled states of items, etc. Since this enhancements require certain CSS interventions (removing excess CSS, changes to the CSS naming conventions of the controls to better support nested RadControls) if you have custom CSS you need to update it. For more details, read this blog post from Telerik Sr. Developer Tervel Peykov.

Telerik skins

You can see the refreshed skins and apply them to most of the ASP.NET AJAX controls examples in our Online Demos Framework. Simply choose a skin from the drop down in the top right corner of every example.

Choose skin

  • New web testing capabilities with WebUI Test Studio
    WebUI Test Studio is a tool for creating automated web tests that is specifically tailored for Telerik AJAX controls. It comes with built-in translators for RadControls and provide intelligent options to validate the state of each control and its child elements.
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WebUI Test Studio

  • New .NET 3.5 demos
    Telerik AJAX controls fully leverage .NET 3.5 and come with built-in support for LINQ, LinqToSQL, EntityDataSource, ADO.NET DataServices, and WCF Web Service. With Q1 2009 our online examples feature .NET 3.5 examples for all databound controls (Grid, Scheduler, ComboBox, Menu, TreeView, PanelBar)
  • Extended video resources
    with the launch of the Telerik TV portal, the official gateway to all Telerik video resources, you have access to training videos, product deep dive and tips & tricks.

Visual Studio Extensions for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

With Q1 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX introduce a new level of developer productivity with the Visual Studio Extensions package for RadControls - a set of ready-to-use Visual Studio templates that cover common application scenarios. The Extensions package automatically creates your projects in seconds, eliminating the need to configure them manually.

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This is the initial release of the Visual Studio Extensions package, which is currently available as a separate installation. The VS Extensions package comes in help when you:

  • Create new Telerik project (WebSite or a WebApplication) - RadControls VS Extensions resemble the standard Visual Studio project templates and contain all the preliminary set of items need for your application with RadControls–configured web.config (to support any RadControl) , RadCompressionModule (enabled or disabled through the wizard), a global site-wide skin for the RadControls. You can also choose whether your web form will use the embedded jQuery support or will use the AJAX functionality.

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  • Convert your existing project to Telerik project - You can easily convert any website or web application to Telerik project in which you want to jump-start using RadControls. Additionally, you can do the same for your existing Telerik Web apps –configure the global web settings and/or upgrade the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX it uses.

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  • Create RadControls application/web form – To facilitate your development we have isolated the most common scenarios with major controls from Telerk AJAX suite (Grid, Editor, Scheduler, Treeview). Now you can choose from a library of predefined page templates and eliminate your work from scratch. For example, with just a few clicks you can add a TreeView with client-side enabled drag and drop to your page. You don’t have to set any properties, and configure your page: simply follow the VS Extensions wizard, which automatically does it for you.

Create RadControls application/web form screenshot

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RadFileExplorer

A flexible web control for file management, RadFileExplorer completely mimics the Windows Explorer functionality and is entirely built with Telerik RadControls: TreeView, Grid, ToolBar, Upload, Address Bar. Featuring:

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  • Flexible Load on Demand Mechanism - Telerik FileExplorer can load on demand (using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Callback mechanism) only for the current expanded section
  • Rich Client-side API and Events - The rich API and events allows for all file operations to be performed on the client: create, rename, delete, drag &drop, etc
  • Custom File Content Provider - Allows using virtually any type of file sources for Telerik FileExplorer; DataBase, WebService, Custom role-based CMS system, etc
  • Context Menus - RadFileExplorer has a built-in context menu (RadContextMenu) which can be fully customized through CSS. By right clicking you can easily upload, delete, rename files/folders.

fileexplorer context menu


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HTTP Compression Module

HTTP Compression Module

RadCompression is a HttpModule that ships with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX that is designed to automatically compress your AJAX and Web Service responses. The compression process is completely transparent to your client-side code (JavaScript or Silverlight) and your server-side code. It simply reduces the number of bits that must be sent over the wire (from your server to your client) and thus- in theory- improves your page performance.

Read the following articles for more details:
Optimization Tips: RadCompression
Optimization Tips: RadCompression for ViewState

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RadScheduler

With the Q1 release RadScheduler gets unique client features resulting in major performance enhancements. You will be able to bind it directly to Web Services allowing you to perform some operations on the client such as add/remove appointments. In this mode all operations are forwarded to a Web Service for processing using JSON calls for data transfer. This completely eliminates the need for postbacks and improves server load and bandwidth usage. With all these Client-side improvements RadScheduler is now ASP.NET MVC-ready

Read full details and see a live demo

RadScheduler

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RadGrid

  • Filter Templates - You are able now to specify your own template for filtering in grid template columns and using the grid powerful client-side API you can tell the grid to filter specified data source according to selected conditions. You can enable dropdown filters for GridBoundColumns and GridTemplateColumns declaratively by setting a single property

See a live demo

RadGrid


  • NET 3.5 demos – See how Telerik ASP.NET Grid binds to EntityFamework, LinqToSql, LINQ, ADO.NET DataServices, WCF, etc
  • New Pager HTML – an updated pager bar with improved look and feel

Pager HTML

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RadEditor

  • Integrated FileExplorer – the new RadFileExplorer control is now added to the Editor file browser dialogs and completely replaces the proprietary FileLister/FileExplorer control.

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  • New Table Editing Mechanism – the newly integrated table editing mechanism is much more flexible and easy to use. Allows for effortless adding of rows and columns, inserting/merging/splitting cells and set table/cell properties (padding, size, color, etc)

RadEditor screenshot


  • Optimized Server Rendering – With Q1 2009 we changed RadEditor’s rendering to be a bit more efficient and to meet several new rendering requirements for the changes in RadEditor skins. These changes result in fives times faster rendering.
  • Full HTML Edit - RadEditor offers the ability to create and edit full HTML and the Page Properties dialog significantly facilitates the process of creation and formatting of complete html content. See a live demo

RadEditor screenshot


  • Custom drop-downs – Telerik HTML Editor allows for setting your custom split buttons or drop-downs for inserting any custom type of content (text, images, etc) and ToolStrips - dropdowns that contain a group of tools with related functionality and can be a very convenient means of arranging tools used in the editor.
    See a live demo

RadEditor screenshot


  • Google Translation – You can translate either the whole content or a selection of text inside the RadEditor's content area using the Google AJAX Language API. The user interface uses a custom dropdown, which lists the available language options.
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  • Right-to-left Support – RadEditor provides full support for Right-to-Left languages. See a live demo

RadEditor screenshot

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RadFormDecorator

The FormDecorator introduces some visual improvements, as well as a new property for turning on/off rounded corners of textboxes and text areas.

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RadAjax

The Telerik AJAX Manager features a new set of loading panel embedded skins for any application UI.

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