Release

It is a great pleasure to share that we just pushed the “futures” release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Q1 2010 out of the door. What the heck does “futures” mean? Well it is a beta of the bits we are going to release officially in Q1 2010 due in March. However since the current release has a beta tag as well we couldn’t use the same name could we :) Please check this forum thread for download instructions. don’t forget to share your feedback with us in the forums! The online demos are here.   What’s new Here is the list from...

Nowadays responsive, user-friendly websites are the norm and no longer the exception. Thanks to using AJAX for partial page updates and real-time updates users don’t need to wait for the browser to finish its communication with the server after every action – they are free to open new messages, accept friend requests or browse image galleries while the browser works in the background. One operation though often needs to block the user interaction while it completes – file uploading. As always Telerik is here to help in this tough situation – meet the RadAsyncUpload. In its essence RadAsyncUpload lets the user...

I am pleased to inform you about the availability of the Q1 2010 Beta release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. What we have in it: Two new controls - RadAsyncUpload and RadFilter Filtering option in RadGrid's header context menu as well as built-in GridRatingColumn Items drag and drop and integrated filtering for RadListView RadEditor Import/Export to RTF, image thumbnails, light versions of hyperlink and image dialogs Audio support for RadCaptcha, codeless load on demand for RadComboBox and many more If you already got exited about the new stuff we introduced with the Beta, don't hesitate to grab the bits and play...

Hey everybody - Emily from Telerik here! I am Telerik’s Community Program Manager; AKA your go-to geekette for give-a-ways and sponsorships in your community. As you may already know, Telerik is a strong supporter of developer community initiatives. We’ve spent the past few years building a solid schedule of events and groups to sponsor around the globe. This includes: user groups, code camps, community conferences, Saturday events, TechFests, Days of .NET and more. We have active sponsorships in 6 continents and if you are a developer in Antarctica reading this, we’d love to sponsor all 7 continents. Since...

If you have been using RadComboBox frequently in your projects, you have probably written the following or very similar code many times: protected void RadComboBox1_ItemsRequested(object sender, RadComboBoxItemsRequestedEventArgs e) { SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter( "SELECT * from Customers WHERE CompanyName LIKE @text + '%'", ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["NorthwindConnectionString"] .ConnectionString); adapter.SelectCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@text", e.Text); DataTable data = new DataTable(); adapter.Fill(data); int itemOffset = e.NumberOfItems; int endOffset = Math.Min(itemOffset + ItemsPerRequest, data.Rows.Count); e.EndOfItems = endOffset ==...