Hello, my name is Manol Donev and I'm part of the ASP.NET team responsible for the development and maintenance of our grid, ajax, calendar, input, and chart components. With time ticking away and the September release date closing down I can assure you there is a lot going on here at the moment -- gradually orienting our ASP.NET product line towards ASP.NET AJAX is by far our main focus of course and probably you will find some of the ASP.NET AJAX tips and tricks I'll be writing about useful in your own projects as well. OK, this one does not qualify exactly...

Hi everyone,We decided to start series of blog posts targeting interesting examples which can be easily implemented with RadControls. These short posts will be accompanied by flash movies (they will start in new window when you click the image at the bottom of the message) which outline the main parts of the demos. That is where the name of blog comes from - Telerik corporation presents. We hope you will enjoy the reading and do not spare your ideas about videos you would like to see here - who knows, may be you can become the producer/director of the next movie from the series :)Now up to...

We have just updated our RadEditor for MOSS with a new build. You can get it from the usual place. Visit http://www.telerik.com/products/sharepoint/radeditor.aspx for more information. The new version (4.31) has a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. The most important new feature in my opinion is the addition of a base editor class, which you can use in your own custom MOSS solutions. The new class (MOSSRadEditor) is available only in the full-featured version of the RadEditor for MOSS. It allows you to easily add an instance of RadEditor, which will have the MOSS specific features like the ability to use MOSS asset...

By default ASP.NET AJAX will load and render your controls even if they do not need to be updated. Example:In this case the Panel marked as "Slow loading area" will be updated by default even on DropDownList1 selected index changed. What can we do to prevent this? You can set Panel1.Visible to true/false according to the current ajax request. Example: Enjoy! PS: Running example can be found here....

As many of you have waited patiently for this feature, I decided to drop a few words since it has already been implemented. We will introduce it officially with the next quarterly release in September. Of course anyone who needs this badly can open a support ticket and request internal build! Well here it is - basically the drill is the same as with the SharedCalendar: Drop a TimeView control on the page