Release

Hi guys! I just decided to bring you up to speed with our Q3 SP2 release. On top of the improvements we introduced with the new rendering engine in the Q3 version, we have prepared a few small surprises for the Q3 SP2 as well: optimization of image/pdf/rtf rendering. As you know, Q3 2008 came with new paging logic that introduced a superior and more sophisticated algorithm for calculation and inspection of pages before they are rendered. Now we take a step further and make it possible to decrease the rendering time with almost 30% when PageCount is...

Once again, apologies to the 700+  people who've registered for the Telerik Reporting 101 webinar scheduled for last Thursday, January 29. Our presenter, Kevin Babcock, became suddenly ill and we had to cancel the webcast shortly before its scheduled start time. The good news is that Kevin feels much better and has rescheduled the webinar for Tuesday, February 3; 11:00am-12:00pm EST (4:00pm-5:00 GMT). Please note, you need to register again even if you had already signed up for the cancelled webinar! In case you can't make it tomorrow, there will be a recorded version available shortly after the webinar, and of course Kevin will...

As telerik.com grows bigger, you may start finding it time-consuming to navigate to the deeper pages in the site hierarchy. The increasing number of clicks is getting irritating, especially for regular visitors of the site.  We tried to tackle this problem by introducing a supplemental navigation tool (you need to be logged in to see it). The "Your Links" menu is straight-forward to use: bookmark, rearrange and delete your favorite telerik.com pages. 1. Go to the page you want to bookmark and expand the menu.  2. Bookmark the currently opened page by pressing the "Add Current Page" button. 3. Type in the name of...

Today Telerik released the second service pack for the Q3 2008 RadControls for WinForms. It's been about a month and a half since SP1, and in that time a lot of great fixes and improvements have been added to the controls. The release notes, as always, have the full list of what's changed in this release, but here are a couple of enhancements of interest.  RadGridView Introduced an API for customizing XML Serialization Enhancements to the Validation API Improvement of the memory footprint and resource management RadDockingManager Improved layout with Tabbed Documents New property AutoHideSize which can be applicated to DockPanels and TabbedDocuments While...

At the very end of 2008, the DotNetNuke Corporation released a new major version of their web application framework - DNN 5.0.0. Our modules and skinobject PAs were not compatible with the new release because of a change in DotNetNuke's handling of files and subfolders in the PA archive. With the new RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX service pack release (2008.3.1314), we updated our DNN resources to be compatible with the 5.0.0 installer. The new build of the RadControls modules and skinobjects for DotNetNuke can be used in version 5 and 4 as well. If you find an issue with the...