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    Make your applications look like Office 2007 with the RadRibbonBar

    The ribbon bar was first introduced with the release of Microsoft Office 2007.  It resides across the top of a window and is the primary means of accessing application functionality.  Unlike the classic menu toolbar approach the ribbon bar offers the ability to display functions and commands in an way that you can locate what you need more quickly.  This is in large part due to the context sensitive way that functionality is displayed.  The ribbon bar is a great usability improvement to most applications since functionality is not buried beneath a multitude of hierarchical menus and toolbars.  Microsoft has...
    December 12, 2008 2 min read
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    New online resources for the past four weeks (11/01/2008 - 12/01/2008)

    Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET AJAX/Winforms/WPF/Silverlight controls: RADCONTROLS FOR ASP.NET AJAX RadScheduler Help topics Appearance and Styling -> Horizontal Scrolling:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/scheduler-horizontal-scrolling.html Appearance and Styling > Inline Form Resizing:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/scheduler-inline-form-resizing.html Knowledge base articles Limit the number of concurrent appointments just for a single resource:http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/aspnet-ajax/scheduler/limit-the-number-of-concurrent-appointments-just-for-a-single-resource.aspx RadTreeViewHelp topics How To > Client-Side Programming > How-to distinguish whether node.get_parent() returns the parent node or the parent treeview:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/treeview-get-parent.html How To > Client-Side Programming > Implement findNodesByAttribute method:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/treeview-find-nodes-by-attribute.html How To > Client-Side Programming > Set the tooltip of the node with javascript:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/treeview-set-node-tooltip-clientside.html Usability > Validation:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/treeview-validation.html How To > CheckBoxes > Validate treeview by checked nodes:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/validate-treeview-by-checked-nodes.html Code library entries Undo Drag & Drop operations:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/aspnet-ajax/treeview/undo-drag-drop-operations.aspx FindNodebyText() case...
    December 11, 2008 2 min read
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    New feature: ASP.NET AJAX grid filter template

    With the next Telerik.Web.UI service pack you will be able to specify your own template for filtering in grid template columns: and using the grid powerful client-side API you can tell the grid to filter specified data source according to selected conditions: The result: Easy and powerful filtering customization in less than a minute! I've used EntityDataSource for my demo connected to Northwind Customers table (and distinct Country from Customers for the combo) and all operations are applied directly to the data-base server without need to write any code: [Live | Download]...
    December 03, 2008 1 min read
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    ASP.NET Ajax Controls and jQuery - What about IntelliSense?

      UPDATE: Please see this blog post for updated instructions on enabling IntelliSense in the Q1 '09 version. We have recently announced that we are shipping jQuery with RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax. You can use this completely unmodified version of jQuery in your projects, as long as you have the RadControls assembly in your bin folder. This way you do not have to include jQuery and this can translate into 50kB less traffic. You can enable IntelliSense, just like with the standalone jQuery, in VS2008 with a few simple steps. 1. Install the Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense patch, if you have not already done so. 2. Download...
    November 26, 2008 2 min read
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    Silverlight Samples source code available

    During the last couple of months we created several integration examples using RadControls for Silverlight. You can check all the samples online here: Consuming web services with Astoria Theme selector Job board example Car configurator Telerik Media Page Navigation - CV Viewer   The main idea behind creating so many integration examples is to help you see our controls in a real - world scenarios and to help you learn how to use the controls better. Today we published the full source code of the samples. It is available for download from your client.net...
    November 22, 2008 1 min read