Well into the Q1 2008 release, I am pleased to announce the development plans for Telerik Reporting Q1 2008. With the release expected in April, we will introduce several awesome features: UI for Report parameters Telerik Reporting will expose dedicated parameters UI to allow end users to pass parameters to a report in both Win and Web Viewers. Parameters are used to manipulate the report’s data. This will help the user to vary the output of a report at runtime based on values that are preset. Label reports The label addition to the report wizard will let the end users to create label reports...

In a series of posts I will walk through some of the new features for RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2008. Here is the first part: - Global ItemTemplate for GridTableView - (CardView): Using ItemTemplate you have ability to replace all GridDataItem GridEditableColumns cells with single...

Today we have released a preview of the new RadEditor Prometheus provider for DotNetNuke 4. The provider configuration remains basically the same, so people should have no problem enabling and configuring the new editor in DNN. The installation for the new provider is greatly simplified. We tried to eliminate most of the manual steps, which were required with the original RadEditor HTML editor provider. Basically, the provider now comes packaged as a module PA, so you can install and enable it directly from the web site. Detailed installation instructions (both for the automatic and manual installation) are available in the distribution...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls/Telerik Reporting:  ASP.NET RadInput/RadCalendar Knowledge base articles Standard Compliant RadInput and RadDateTimePicker with no tables: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-hbd-b454T-cdt-b454c-cdt.aspx RadGrid Help topics Customizing the appearance of the auto-generated Update/Insert/Cancel buttons (both for Classic and Prometheus grid): http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/prometheus/?grdCustomizeAutoGeneratedUpdateInsertCancelButtons.html http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/?grdCustomizeAutoGeneratedUpdateInsertCancelButtons.html

“Why is my page sprinkled with links to webresource.axd?” By default RadControls (both “Classic” and “Prometheus”) utilize Web Resources to embed external files. By external files I mean the following: JavaScript files – they contain the code implementing the client-side features of the controls CSS files –they define the visual appearance of the controls Images –various GIF, JPG or PNG files used by the CSS files RadControls "Classic" embed all JavaScript files and the default skin (thoughtfully named "Default"). If you use any other skin or create your own it will be served from the location specified via the SkinsPath property ("~/RadControls/<ControlName>/Skins" by default). Reducing the number...