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  • Mobile

    RadControls on iPhone: Part 3

    In our final look at the RadControls for ASP.NET running on an iPhone, we'll look at RadSplitter, RadTabStrip, RadToolBar, RadTreeView, RadUpload, and RadWindow. In the first two installments of this series we looked at the other 12 RadControls running on the phone and found most of them to be usable or semi-usable. So far, only RadEditor has earned an unusable rating on the iPhone's mobile Safari. Today we'll pass judgment on the remaining RadControls and then create a quick summary chart that you can reference during your future iPhone development. So without further delay, here's how the final six controls fared: RadSplitter: Semi-usable RadSplitter on an...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Mobile

    RadControls on iPhone: Part 2

    In part one of this three part series, we looked at RadAjax, RadCalendar, RadChart, RadCombobox, RadDock, and RadEditor running on the iPhone. We found most of those controls run relatively well on the iPhone with the exception of RadEditor. In this second installment, we'll look at another batch of RadControls and pass judgment on their usability. Each control will be deemed either usable, semi-usable, or unusable on the iPhone so that you can quickly tweak your applications (or build new ones) for iPhone users. Today's lucky controls are RadGrid, RadInput, RadMenu, RadPanelbar, RadRotator, and RadSpell. During all of my tests with these controls, the...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Mobile

    RadControls on iPhone: Part 1

    Love it or hate it (as those seem to be the only two options), the iPhone is here and there are already over a million people using it to surf the "real Internet" in their pockets. And if there is anything I love more than ASP.NET and the RadControls, it's gadgets. So naturally I had to replace my "so last season" BlackBerry 8300 with an 8GB iPhone soon after it came out (which, for those that care, I love and fully recommend).One thing Steve Jobs and Apple stressed during the marketing blitz leading up to the iPhone's release is that...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web

    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...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read