Have you pressed F1 in Visual Studio? Did you wait a couple of minutes cursing it? I did. And I found a cure, a very simple cure - remove the F1 shortcut. Here are the simple steps: in Visual Studio -> Tools -> Option -> Keyboard -> find Help.F1Help shortcut -> remove F1 key binding. You are cured!...

Hello Everyone, my name is Rosi and I am a developer on the ASP.NET navigation controls team. This is my first blog post and I will be talking about the RadUpload component.  Many customers have asked how to upload multiple files with it. Unfortunately RadUpload does not yet support this functionality out of the box, but I will show you how to work-around this limitation. The trick is uploading one  .zip file and extracting it on the server.  To achieve this we will need a little help from a third party library.  Such libraries are  DotNetZip and SharpZipLib which provide a convenient API to manipulate .zip files.  For the purposes of this blog post...

Data binding in WPF in general and particularly working with data templates tends to be quite tricky some times. Here I'll present you some more advanced tips for dealing with data templates. To start with, I want to refer to an article I read a while ago. It is about the basics of data templates and I want to use it as a starting point and a foundation to build on. If you are just starting to work with WPF or you have never met with data templates, please read it first to get acquainted with the idea. I'll use ItemsControl for...

Today is D-Day ("Download Day") for the much-anticipated version 3 of Mozilla's popular web browsing client, Firefox. In an effort to create more buzz around the launch, Mozilla has requested that users help them attempt a new Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading the new Firefox release today. Over 1.7 million people from around the world pledged to download the new client today. As an aside, I think its pretty cool that they are trying to get in the Guinness record books, but is it really a record if it's never been done before? I...

In the era of the "classic" RadControls for ASP.NET modifying a skin required opening ~ / RadControls / [ControlName] / Skins / [SkinName] / styles.css and making the necessary changes. The new RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as "Prometheus") by default use skins, which are embedded in the assembly. This simplifies deployment but sacrifices customization. Or does it? Actually, making a change to an embedded skin of a RadControl for ASP.NET AJAX is quite easy, given that one keeps in mind a couple of notable things. Namely: (1) Since the embedded skin cannot be modified, the custom styles need to be placed elsewhere. For example ...