I am pleased to inform you about the availability of the Q1 2010 Beta release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. What we have in it: Two new controls - RadAsyncUpload and RadFilter Filtering option in RadGrid's header context menu as well as built-in GridRatingColumn Items drag and drop and integrated filtering for RadListView RadEditor Import/Export to RTF, image thumbnails, light versions of hyperlink and image dialogs Audio support for RadCaptcha, codeless load on demand for RadComboBox and many more If you already got exited about the new stuff we introduced with the Beta, don't hesitate to grab the bits and play...

Beside of all the other new neat features the RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX will have with the Q1 2010 release, it will also incorporate built-in filtering capabilities. The control will expose a fluent-like server-side API which can be used to specify filter expression in the following manner:   listView.FilterExpressions.BuildExpression() .GreaterThanOrEqualTo("OrderDate", DateTime.Parse("7/5/1996")) .And() .Group(group => group.EqualTo("ShipCountry", "Germany") .Or().EqualTo("ShipCountry", "France") ...

Hey everybody - Emily from Telerik here! I am Telerik’s Community Program Manager; AKA your go-to geekette for give-a-ways and sponsorships in your community. As you may already know, Telerik is a strong supporter of developer community initiatives. We’ve spent the past few years building a solid schedule of events and groups to sponsor around the globe. This includes: user groups, code camps, community conferences, Saturday events, TechFests, Days of .NET and more. We have active sponsorships in 6 continents and if you are a developer in Antarctica reading this, we’d love to sponsor all 7 continents. Since...

If you have been using RadComboBox frequently in your projects, you have probably written the following or very similar code many times: protected void RadComboBox1_ItemsRequested(object sender, RadComboBoxItemsRequestedEventArgs e) { SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter( "SELECT * from Customers WHERE CompanyName LIKE @text + '%'", ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["NorthwindConnectionString"] .ConnectionString); adapter.SelectCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@text", e.Text); DataTable data = new DataTable(); adapter.Fill(data); int itemOffset = e.NumberOfItems; int endOffset = Math.Min(itemOffset + ItemsPerRequest, data.Rows.Count); e.EndOfItems = endOffset ==...

In this blog post we will create a simple data access layer that allows our UI to interact with our data.