We have released a Beta of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2009! We are excited to offer 4 new controls, improvements to all other controls in the suite as well as a new installer. The new controls have been often requested by the community and they will come handy for a lot of people: RadListBox is a Telerik-quality full-scale listbox control with reordering, transfer, drag-and-drop, multiple selection, etc. RadCaptcha is a UI control that provides protection against automated form submission. RadXmlHttpPanel serves as a container for rapid content loading. You can update diverse content (rich content, user controls or just ...

Telerik OpenAccess ORM generates dynamic SQL to perform CRUD operations. If for some reason you are not comfortable using dynamically generated SQL or your company policies allow data manipulation only via stored procedures, fear not. Telerik OpenAccess ORM supports CRUD operations via stored procedures too – currently only for MS Sql Server, but soon for the other backends also.  Stored procedure usage in Telerik OpenAccess ORM can be classified into 2 categories – Mapping existing stored procedures and instructing Telerik OpenAccess ORM to use them instead of generating dynamic SQL Letting Telerik OpenAccess ORM generate and use the required stored procedures based...

RadChart data binding provides a simple and consistent way for applications to present and interact with data. In many cases the data that you work with is a collection of objects and you need the UI to update automatically whenever the datasource gets updated. WPF and Silverlight provide a built-in implementation of a data collection that implements the INotifyCollectionChanged interface and achieves the desired effect. However, when you try to blend the ObservableCollection<T> implementation with some LINQ queries, the situation gets a bit more complicated and most probably the out-of-the-box result will not match your expectations. Let us take the...

The RadFileExplorer is a fairly new control in our ASP.NET AJAX suite and we are happy to see that a lot of people are already adopting it into their solutions. In this post I will show how to make the file explorer work with SharePoint libraries. By default, the control interfaces with a virtual folder in your web application and allows you to do all kinds of file/folder operations (create new folders, upload/move/delete items, preview, etc.). Unfortunately, the default behavior of the control is limited to virtual folders that can be mapped to physical locations on the server's drives. MOSS web...

Our valued partners from Falafel just released their next state of the art training courseware for Telerik OpenAccess ORM. The 250+ pages document will introduce you in a step-by-step fashion to all features and techniques of Telerik’s Enterprise ORM, from the very basic to the most advanced. The learning guide includes numerous visual examples, tip & tricks, code samples as well as Visual Studio projects allowing you to practice while you learn. You can download the courseware for FREE from our website. We also recommend you try out our new application which demonstrates the extensive LINQ support of OpenAccess ORM. The...