Just before our Q3 release I've made quick test to see how the grid will perform with 1 mil. records table and here is the result: In this example the grid is bound with our new client-side declarative approach to a static page method: ... <DataBinding Location="~/Default.aspx" SelectMethod="GetData" SortParameterType="Linq"  FilterParameterType="Linq" />   ... ... [System.Web.Services.WebMethod]    public static Telerik.Web.UI.GridBindingData GetData(int startRowIndex, int maximumRows, string sortExpression, string filterExpression)    { ...

Telerik Sitefinity evangelist Gabe Sumner and Telerik Chief Evangelist Todd Anglin co-host another case study on Telerik TV. This month, they interview Amith Nagarajan from Aptify as he discusses why his company chose Telerik as their CMS provider and shows off how they use Sitefinity on their website, Aptify.com. Aptify, which Amith founded in 1993, provides powerful enterprise-level software built to meet the specific needs of many industries. So be sure to drop by Telerik TV and watch as Amith shows how easy it was to use Sitefinity CMS to build a powerful and flexible web site....

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET AJAX controls and Telerik Reporting: RADCONTROLS FOR ASP.NET AJAX RadScheduler Knowledge base articles External skins break the Image of the DatePicker button: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbk-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx How to access controls in the advanced form: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbg-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx How to go to a specific date in Day View by clicking on the date cell in Month View: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bbbm-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx  

For those of us who were not lucky enough to go to the PDC this week, Microsoft published all the video recordings online at the Channel9 website. If you have been there you should have seen the Telerik booth and some of my colleagues - we were once again the gold sponsor of the conference. There are eleven sessions for Silverlight - see them all here: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/pdc2008.silverlight/ If you don't have the time to watch them all - here is my Top3 recommended list: Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications Jamie Cool talks about the future releases of Silverlight components focused entirely on the LOB scenarios. You...

I know many of you like our WinForms "Desert" theme:     I like it very much too. But I've been using it for quite some time and it started to kind of bore me. I just wish it wasn't so orange-ish. Then I got impressed by the UI of Windows Live's set of desktop applications, which have the cool option to change the skin color - on the fly:       Its very neat and I just can't get bored using this kind of UI. Our Windows Form components on the other hand have a very extensible way of skinning, but still, you are...