Welcome back to the ongoing Optimization Tips series. It's been a while since the last installment, so it's high-time we took a look at more tips and tricks for optimizing your Telerik-powered web applications. In this the seventh article in this series, we'll take a look at Telerik's brand new RadCompression HttpModule and try to gain a deep understanding of how this tool can help improve application performance. Some of the concepts in this article build on things we've discussed in previous installments, so I encourage you to read the earlier articles before reading this if you have not already done so....

We are happy to invite you to a free webinar, presented by one of our evangelists, Kevin Babcock. The webinar Telerik Reporting 101 will discuss what a Reporting solution is, why you should adopt a reporting solution for your organization, and how Telerik Reporting is the perfect fit for delivering the business critical reports you need. After this short introduction, Kevin will show you the basics of Telerik Reporting and take you for a tour of the unique report designer. Then he’ll show you how to create your first report, how to make more complex reports, and how to display your...

     There usually comes a time for most developers when they need to use the data being displayed in an application, outside of that application.  There are obviously a number of ways you can present data, but it is common to leverage Microsoft Excel.  It provides a similar look and feel to the grid which means minimal reformatting, plus Excel is widely used and therefore most offices should have a version of the software available.       How to get your data into Excel?  The RadGridView offers a couple of options to accomplish this task.  First, you can use the Primary...

I’m happy to announce that with Q1 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Telerik.Web.UI) you will be able to compress the response from ADO.NET DataServices (formerly "Project Astoria") in Silverlight web applications with simple web.config registration: web.config … <httpModules>   <addname="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" /> </httpModules> … Here is the result for Northwind Customers with ATOM and JSON response type: ATOM : Bytes Received: 11,623 (uncompressed 92,848) JSON  : Bytes Received:   9,237 (uncompressed 39,460) I’ve made small Silverlight application to illustrate the new...

Most of the time combining two RadControls together is wonderfully easy. We at Telerik know this; we work hard to have them work together in a way that is both simple and intuitive for developers. But every so often someone asks about hooking up two controls in such a manner that I have to sit back and scratch my head for a few minutes. Thankfully though, the RadControls are flexible enough that I usually can find an answer. Tonight that happened when a customer asked how to add a RadToolTip to a custom toolbar item in the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX....