For those of you who haven't taken a look at Telerik Trainer, I highly recommend you give it a once-over and see it for yourself.  Using the newest technology that .Net 3.5 has to offer, we have a rich, interactive, and easy to use training application that provides you with not only fantastic video tutorials, but also tips along the way and source code that you can follow along with to help in the learning process:     But I think that Ivo and John both have enough nice things to say about Telerik Trainer, I'm going to show you a neat new way that you can...

There are many ways to collect user input in ASP.NET web forms. There is the traditional ASP.NET TextBox control, or the handful of extenders available in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Or, you could stick to straight HTML with the <input> and <textarea> elements. For developers using Telerik’s web controls, there are more (and better) options. The RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX contain a set of input controls collectively named RadInput controls. Included in this set are the RadTextBox, RadNumericTextBox, RadMaskedTextBox, RadDateInput, and RadInputManager. In this blog post I will discuss the features of the RadTextBox for ASP.NET AJAX, including those which make it...

It’s always cool to see how the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX work together. Today I saw a question from a customer asking if the RadRotator can be used to create a menu similar to that on the Experts Exchange web site. If you’re unfamiliar with their menu, it’s got a lot of options in it. Because there are so many menu choices they decided to make the menu interactive, adding a button to the right-hand side of the menu which, when clicked, replaces the existing menu options with another set. Using this approach means you no longer have to be concerned about having...

A few weeks ago, I showed you how you can use the new RadCompression HttpModule found in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q3 2008 SP2 (and later) to easily (as in, automatically) compress your Ajax and JSON web service communication. While that technique is great for improving the performance of modern web apps that do lots of processing client-side, that’s not the only thing RadCompression can do. It can also automatically compress ViewState! This week, I’ll show you how you can quickly enable ViewState compression and show you the effects it has on overall ViewState size and server performance. HOW DO I ENABLE...

The unique translator model of the WebUI Test Studio ensures the complex applications and the composite controls are supported out-of-the-box. For example, you don’t need to do anything to test your application where the RadFileExplorer is integrated. This component comes with the Q1 2009 release and consists of several other controls already covered by the RadControls Translators. Loading a RadFileExplorer demo in the Automation Surface, you’ll get them recognized right away. Some screen captures follow. The Grid’s on the right: