In a previous blog post I mentioned that you should use WebService load on demand in order to squeeze the most performance from RadTreeView. In this post I will show a few other tricks which can be used to improve the loading time even further. All techniques are optional and can be used independently. We start with a simple page containing only a single RadTreeView control with one root node. The testing environment is: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz. IIS7 web site Internet Explorer 7 Latest internal build of Telerik.Web.UI.dll (which will go live with the Q3 2008 release) Here...

In the spirit of my recent Silverlight Foundations post, I thought I'd post some Silverlight 2 resources which you might find useful as you get started with Silverlight 2 development.

To demonstrate a real life business application that uses Telerik RadControls for Silverlight, we prepared another sample application showing a web portal about job offerings. We called it the JobBoard application. We managed to include there most of the currently available RadControls for Silverlight. These are: RadComboBox RadTreeView RadWindow RadUpload RadNumericUpDown RadDatePicker RadMediaPlayer The Home page features a "quick find" section at the top most part of the screen, a tree-view navigation on the left and a grid showing the results. The RadTreeView on the left loads its child nodes on demand for a better performance and faster initial loading. Clicking upon a grid-row pops a RadWindow containing...

The feature list for the Q3 release of RadChart for WPF is already locked down, so we can start planning the releases after that. Customer feedback has always been paramount when making roadmap decisions in Telerik so here we are asking for your input. What would you like to see in the next versions of RadChart for WPF? Let me give you some hints if you are stuck: We could bring in more series types: -More rare financial charts like Kagi & Renko -Surface charts which represent real 3D data -Polar and Radar charts We could add more axis features: -Negative values -Strict mode (as in RadChart for...

In some cases you may end up with the following exception when working with RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax: "Script controls may not be registered after PreRender." The explanation of this error is simple - some UI control implementing the IScriptControl interface (e.g. any control from the RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax suite) is stored in the Session, Application or Cache and then is added in some live controls collection. Here is an...