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Summary The technique demonstrates how to transform a non-AJAX scenario which adds a CSS <link> tag to the head of the page to work with AJAX, using a client-side javascript function to register the  <link>. Using AJAX in an application is probably the standard now. Partial page rendering offers a number of benefits such as increased page responsiveness, as well as close-to-desktop experience using AJAX-based toolkits such as RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. However, adding UpdatePanels to the page and expecting that all of your “postback” logic will continue to function without changes is only true for simple scenarios. There are many more advanced...

Hi my name is Boryana Miloshevska and  I’m a member of  Telerik`s Silverlight team. This is my first blog post and it is about the new RadPageNavigation framework that we just released  for Silverlight 2 RC0. RadPageNavigation is a framework that allows you to easily add navigation service to your application. To do that you can use the provided RadPage, RadFrame, RadFrameContainer and NavigationService classes, or you can use your own classes to implement the IFrame and ITransition interfaces. The framework is 100%  compatible with the WPF navigation service. Navigation between pages is supported. You can also use frames inside each page and to...

If you are developing applications for Windows it is almost certain that you have incorporated the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) at some point. This is where you have a parent form that acts as the host for all forms within the application, minus a few exceptions. I know there are debates about whether MDI is an effective approach, but it doesn’t change the fact that MDI is very heavily used. I have found that the Tabbed Document Interface which is essentially an MDI that implements tab navigation between open items is pretty popular. As a matter of fact, this same...

As you may know accessibility standards require a web page to work when JavaScript is disabled. In this blog post I will show you how to make RadMenu work even without JavaScript. I will also show how to make JAWS reader "see" all items rendered by RadMenu (even the hidden ones). Disabling JavaScript First we need to find a way to disable JavaScript in our browser of choice. For FireFox you need to install the web developer toolbar plugin. Then you can easily use the "Disable JavaScript" option: In Internet Explorer you should first edit the security settings for the zone in which your...