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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Creating a Custom RadSpell Dictionary

    The RadSpell control for ASP.NET Ajax allows you to provide your users with spellchecking in your ASP.NET Ajax applications. The control can be used to spellcheck any server or client editable element which means that any textbox, div, or iframe can be spell checked. Out of the box only three languages are supported by RadSpell; English, French and German. However, we have an offering of several languages that can be downloaded, found in this forum thread, which can be used with RadSpell. These files may be incomplete since they are not officially supported by Telerik, but overall they do provide...
    April 29, 2010 4 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadGrid for ASP.NET Ajax and LINQ

    One of the most-asked questions when it comes to the ASP.NET Ajax RadGrid is "How do I improve performance?". We have covered this in some Webinars and videos that can be found on Telerik TV in a series which has been released in three parts: Part One, Part Two and Part Three. One thing I wanted to bring up with respect to performance is the usage of LINQ (Language Integrated Query) and our RadGrid. Although LINQ has been out since the initial release of .NET 3.5 I still receive quite a few questions when it comes to using it with our...
    April 28, 2010 9 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Fun with RadCaptcha for ASP.NET AJAX and OCR software

    A friend of mine was evaluating OCR software and finally decided to go with FineReader. I was curious what would happen if we put the RadCaptcha control in. Will the advanced OCR manage to decode it or not? At first he showed me a test run with the RadCaptcha demo description, to get an idea of the basic output:  
    April 19, 2010 1 min read
  • Release

    Q1 2010 SP1 versions of Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and MVC suites are live

    The Q1 2010 SP1 releases of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC are available for download. Lots of fixes and several new features/enhancements are incorporated in these SP releases. The highlight with this drop we announce official support for VS 2010/.NET 4 RTM. Find more details browsing the online demos, documentation and release notes below: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Release notes Demos Documentation
    April 16, 2010 1 min read
  • Release

    Our plans for ASP.NET AJAX and SharePoint 2010

    The new MS Office and SharePoint release is just around the corner, and I want to assure everyone that we will provide full support for SP 2010 in our next RadControls release - Q2 2010. We have already put up a page with information about the new SP release. You can find all the information you need at the SharePoint product page on our site. In this post I will talk about the ASP.NET AJAX controls, but as you will see on the product page, we will also offer support for our Silverlight UI controls.   The most important thing I want to...
    April 13, 2010 2 min read