First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to all US readers! I guess the holiday is a good occasion to announce a new feature we added to our ASP.NET grid control - Search Engine Optimized paging is finally ready. The grid will handle automatically crawlers and a special pager will be initialized in this case. The good news are the this feature can be turned on/off explicitly using PagerStyle.EnableSEOPaging and page indexes will be persisted via query strings even in multiple grids on the same page. Live example can be found @ http://betas.telerik.com/examples/seopaging/Cheers,Vlad ...

My team released the first Service Pack for the Windows Forms UI controls several hours ago. I wouldn't be blogging about a Service Pack if it weren’t for some major improvements we made over the last few weeks. Traditionally we’ve shied away from adding new capabilities in Service Packs but rules are there to be broken and you will be seeing lots of new stuff and improvements with every SP, minor or major telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms release. The highlight of the SP1 additions is the significantly improved design-time experience. The changes were driven by the feedback we have received from...

Today I had some strange experience. I have been hunting a strange bug that caused something to be placed in the ASP.NET session at a time that it was not supposed to be.  My biggest problem was finding out who was putting an object in the session and what that object actually contained. I already knew that the HttpSessionState instance was being stored in the current HttpContext's Items collection (thanks to Mr. Lutz Roeder, of course), and my initial plan was to inherit from HttpSessionState and intercept the calls made to methods like Add, Remove, etc.  Alas, HttpSessionState is marked as...

It is a widely known fact, that form controls, and especially comboboxes, checkboxes and radiobuttons are not that flexible as the other html elements and are hardly susceptible to css skinning. Here is a simple client-side solution for checkbox skinning. The tutorial is divided into four chapters, supplied with code listings, and explaining the different parts of the control – xhtml markup, css classes, javascript, checkbox states and more. In the beginning of each chapter there is a list of reference files. Before starting, you may download the script from here.1. Considering the (X)HTML Markup Reference files: • CheckBox.html Prior to the W3C recommendations for xhtml compliance, semantics,...

As most of you may already know, .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released. Personally, I think WPF is great. I can't wait to see the final versions of Expression Interactive Designer and VS 2005 extensions for .NET 3.0. You can download it, check it, and admire its potential. Once the admiration starts fading away, you may ask yourself "now what?". You may start writing applications from scratch, you may start migrating existing WinForms applications, or you may decide to wait for the final versions of Expression Interactive Designer and Visual Studio Orcas. You may even decide to wait till Windows...