Telerik blogs
  • People Accessibility

    Accessible RadEditor used by the Royal National Institute of Blind People

    I am posting this on behalf of the editor team here at Telerik. It has been a really great experience to work with the folks at the Royal National Institute of the Blind People (RNIB) and Content and Code. The folks at RNIB helped us a lot to improve the accessible feature set of RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX and we are very happy with the results. We are proud to be the chosen component vendor for an accessible HTML editor. The required changes to the editor client code were not difficult and added the needed features for blind and partially sighted people. Some...
    December 11, 2009 1 min read
  • Release

    Coming up in Q3 2009 SP1 - RadEditor thumbnail support

    One of the cool new features, that will make its way in the Q3 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX service pack release, is the additional thumbnail option in the Image Manager dialog. When you select an image, that ends with a specific suffix (e.g. "_thumb"), and there is an image with the same name but without the suffix in the current folder, the image dialog will offer the ability to automatically create a link to the original and open it in a new browser window. Here is how this will look like:       We hope that this will provide a much quicker...
    November 26, 2009 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    New ASP.NET AJAX sample app: Sales Dashboard

    Following the great success of the Silverlight/WPF Sales Dashboard -- a similar demo is now available for ASP.NET AJAX. See what we have built for less than a week with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight RadChart, RadGauge and OpenAccess ORM!     Enjoy and make sure you check the source code for some helpful best practices! ...
    November 20, 2009 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Introduction to RadRating

    One of the new controls we added to the Q3 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite is RadRating. Even though this is the first release of the rating control, we made sure that it is packed full of excellent features and it has the same quality you have come to expect from the Telerik ASP.NET suite - cool skins, wide cross browser support, automated tests, and more.   You can see all of the control's features on its overview page, but I will list some of the major ones here as well: whole item/half item/exact precision; four possible orientations; customizable number of...
    November 17, 2009 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    How to Use Google Spellcheck with RadSpell

    Sometimes the default spellchecking algorithms in RadSpell are not providing the best possible suggestions for misspelled words. For example, the phonetic algorithm works best with English words, but is not very accurate with Russian. The edit distance algorithm is language independent, but will not recognize easy mistakes if the word spelling is not very similar to the original. Unfortunately, implementing your own custom algorithm for a specific language is not an easy task. The latest Q3 2009 release of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX features a new example for RadSpell, which shows how to use an existing service provided by...
    November 09, 2009 2 min read