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  • Web

    Working with Zip Files: Part II, Zipping Files

    In part one, we looked at how you can use RadUpload and the open source SharpZipLib to easily upload and expand zip archives. Today, we'll look at the other end of the process: creating new zip files on the server and then making them available for users to download. To do this, we'll extend the sample we created in part one. As you recall, our sample already enables users to upload a zip file that contains image files and then the server automatically extracts all images to a target directory. We'll extend this demo by creating a text file and then zipping...
    July 13, 2007
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    Working with Zip files: Part I, Uploading and Expanding

    Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to automatically zip and unzip archives with ASP.NET? It may be easier than you think thanks to the powerful SharpZipLib open source library. This library provides you with a number of easy to use tools for working with Zip (and GZip, Tar, and BZip2, for that matter) archives in .NET code that make the task of creating and expanding compressed archives relatively easy. Today we're going to look at how you can use RadUpload and SharpZipLib to upload a Zip archive and then expand it on the server. For our scenario, let's pretend...
    July 10, 2007
  • Web

    How to: Optimize RadCombobox Ajax

    One of the nice things about attending conferences like TechEd is all of the direct feedback you get from Telerik "fans" (people that use the RadControls everyday and love them). These fans love to use the RadControls and they also love to push the controls to their limits. That often leads to some interesting questions, such as this one I was presented with at the Telerik booth:"Is it possible to delay the RadCombobox autocomplete callback until a certain number of characters have been typed? Or is it possible to delay the callback so that it doesn't start until users stop...
    June 18, 2007
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    RadControls in Safari for Windows

    Like it or not, another browser has been added to the list of Windows browsers that you need to test your application against before deploying to production. Apple's release of Safari for Windows is unlikely to to win a lot of converts from FireFox and IE, but if your application must be widely available to as many users as possible it cannot be ignored in your testing. One of the advantages of using RadControls in your projects is Telerik's dedication to delivering cross browser compatibility. And even though Safari on Windows is still a beta product (thus not officially supported by...
    June 18, 2007
  • Release

    Register for new WebCast today (really)

    I am happy to announce that I will be doing another WebCast with Joe Stagner at Microsoft this Thursday, May 31st at 9:00 AM PST (Noon EST). After the massive success of our last WebCast (which is still available for download), we arranged to make another appearance in the "Live from Redmond" WebCast series to address a common ASP.NET developer scenario. The WebCast, titled "Do-it-yourself forums", will show you how you can use RadGrid, RadTreeView, RadEditor, and RadAjax "Prometheus" (the version based on ASP.NET AJAX) to build a simple forum application in less than 60 minutes. If fact, here is a brief...
    May 29, 2007