While working on a recent "real" project for Telerik, I used the RadTabStrip for ASP.NET AJAX to provide users with a list of content they could navigate. It was simple enough. A RadTabStrip with a few tabs, a RadMultiPage holding each tab's content, and content on each pageview that linked to new pages in the website. With very little effort, I had a rich, tabbed interface that worked completely cross browser. But then during beta testing, a tester reported a bug: if they navigated to a new page by clicking on content in the TabStrip, then clicked their browser's back button,...

I put out a survey about two weeks ago to ask you what controls you want to see in upcoming RadTips episodes. The 155 responses I received were spread fairly evenly, but it looks like the controls you are most interested in learning more about are the RadGrid, RadAjax, OpenAccessDataSource, & RadInputManager controls. Thanks to all who participated in the survey. Keep an eye out on my blog in the coming weeks as I start to deliver new RadTips that help you squeeze all the functionality out of these controls. If you have any specific features that you'd like to see me...

One of the most common requests we got after the Q3 2008 release was to improve our label customization. Well I believe many of you will be pleasantly surprised to learn that we will most certainly deliver on those expectations for the Q3 SP1 release and then some! This news is really twofold. The first part is the support for custom format strings in our axis and series items labels. What this means is that with the SP1 release of RadChart for WPF you will be able to apply all .NET supported standard numeric format strings. The easiest way to enable...

Sometimes we need to load very large amount of items in a ComboBox and let the user select one of them. Usually in those cases the ComboBox allows typing in order to auto-select the items, that contain the text in the control. Such scenarios are possible with RadComboBox for Silverlight and now I will show you a simple application, that demonstrates what I think is a better practice for the implementation. We want to put all words from the English dictionary of RadSpell for ASP.NET in a RadComboBox for Silverlight and allow the user to select one of them, that will...

With the next Telerik.Web.UI service pack you will be able 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: The result: Easy and powerful filtering customization in less than a minute! I've used EntityDataSource for my demo connected to Northwind Customers table (and distinct Country from Customers for the combo) and all operations are applied directly to the data-base server without need to write any code: [Live | Download]...