As you may know, all components from the r.a.d.controls suite render XHTML 1.1 compliant output. We wanted to promote it in a way that all users can click a button in our online examples and see for themselves that everything validates perfectly. W3C provides an online validation service (http://validator.w3.org) so it should not be that hard. Unfortunately ASP.NET 1.x complies with *NO* HTML standard ever approved by W3C. ASP.NET 2.0 was first XHTML 1.1 compliant, but then in the official release Microsoft fell back to XHTML 1.0 transitional which is less restrictive. I made a couple of Google searches and found other people...

DotNetNuke 4.0 was officially released about a month ago, giving a major revamp to the project, now specifically designed for .NET 2.0 and offering Visual Studio 2005 support. Although there were some inevitable glitches, in my opinion DNN 4.0 is a solid release. Porting the existing r.a.d.controls for DNN to 4.0 proved to be a straightforward task. Almost all our DNN controls compiled right away after simply replacing the old .NET 1.1 assemblies with the 2.0 ones (e.g. RadEditor.dll -> RadEditor.NET2.dll). The main task was to simplify the new distributions by taking advantage of the new functionality offered by .NET 2.0. All skinobjects and...

I was creating a small banner rotation script yesterday.  It needed to be tiny, lightweight and easy to deploy, so I chose to do it in JScript as it is available on every Windows machine.  I usually do small automation projects in Ruby, but the machine that has to run the script does not have Ruby installed.  I am a closure freak, so I went for JScript (VBScript does not have closures).The script has to select a random subfolder from the source location and copy all its files to the destination.  I don't have much experience with Windows Scripting Host's (WSH)...

After three years of good service, r.a.d.designer will be discontinued. As of r.a.d.controls Q4 2005 SP1 next week, the product will no longer be part of the ASP.NET suite. Wondering why we decided to do it? A bit of history... r.a.d.designer was telerik's third product after r.a.d.editor and r.a.d.menu. It was born out of an experimental project and it's initial goal was very different from what it is today - it had to be a tool that allows you to put stuff in containers and move them around. It was supposed to be very close to what r.a.d.dock does. Back in time...

It all started at Microsoft PDC this year.  We met Miguel de Icaza at our booth, and we talked about running our products under Mono.  I had previously done some tests under my Linux machine at home, and it turned out that our obfuscated assemblies broke the Mono CLR.  Yes, that means crashes and abnormal process terminations.  Miguel was really kind and offered his help.  He was able to determine that our obfuscator (Xenocode) was generating invalid IL instructions in order to break possible decompilations.  Unfortunately that broke Mono too.  In fact it was not only Mono -- we had a lot of...