As I mentioned in one of my previous posts with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008 you can access the grid sort and filter expressions on the client. While filter expressions toString() method will create SQL syntax representing current grid filtering now you have toDynamicLinq() method which will create LINQ expression that can be used directly with Dynamic LINQ library. With few lines of code you will get minimum transfer between server and client (pure JSON): and on the server side LINQ to SQL will apply all requested operations directly on the data-base server: Live Demo |...

Episode 3 - SimNet with Torger J. Wuellner Join Carl Franklin in the latest episode of Telerik TV as he hosts Torger J. Wuellner of Triad Interactive. In this episode Torger shows off SimNet, an e-learning platform which offers students the opportunity to learn Microsoft tools in a simulated Microsoft Office and Windows Vista environment. SimNet's portal site is built with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and is packed full of cool features. Watch as Torger demonstrates how he was able to use the built-in functionality of a RadWindow control to pass data to its parent page, or how he was...

The following blog post was written together with Rumen Jekov, who is the most experienced support officer at Telerik and has been supporting RadEditor for a number of years now. If you are a RadEditor user, and you contact us, chances are you will be receiving an answer from him. The blog post discusses the accessibility features of RadEditor. While accessibility options were not considered important couple of years ago, things have changed - and will be changing even more in the future. For enterprize customers and governmental institutions accessibility is becoming a top priority, and we have gone at great lengths...

I was just about to write the second blog post of the series, this time involving currying, the forward pipe operator and other functional programming beauties when two people discouraged me from doing it. First Mike from the WinForms team kindly implied that with functional C# programming I can get some permanent brain damages and I definitely won't keep my audience concentrated. Then came Joe Zydeco's comment to my previous blog post and I gave up. I don't know why people don't like functional C# programming but point taken, no more functional C# in my blog posts (for those of you who like it,...

RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP2 is fact. This is another public preview that gets us closer to the official release of our RadControls for Silverlight 2. However, there will be another Beta releases before the official launch of the controls. The next update will be available with the forthcoming Q2 release due end of July.   With this CTP edition the RadControls for Silverlight 2 bundle has been enhanced with several brand new controls : Window for Silverlight  - RadWindow exposes most of the best-known methods and properties of a WPF window, which have already become natural to manage and use.  You have the...