Telerik blogs
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Optimized Rendering and Skins for RadCalendar for ASP.NET AJAX

    I have the pleasure to announce that RadCalendar for ASP.NET AJAX has undergone a considerable HTML and CSS optimization. As a result, the HTML output generated by the following RadCalendar declaration has dropped from 5,916 bytes to 3,905 bytes, or by...
    October 14, 2008
  • People

    Skin Exchange Contest Winners

    Our Community Skin Contest is over! A big thank you goes to all members who generously shared their skins with the rest of the community. The winners of the Skin Exchange Contest, as voted by our community, are:1st place - an Xbox and a free RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting license goes to Daniel Jonsson in Iceland for his D1040 RadControls Common Skin. 2nd place and a free RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting license goes to Miglena Nikolova from Bulgaria for her RadMenu Shade Skin.3rd place and a free RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX license...
    September 15, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    50% more ASP.NET skins

      A big thank you guys! Tribute to the generosity of you, our community, we now have 50% more skins available for the telerik ASP.NET components. Check out the latest additions in our Skins Exchange Program and feel free to download a copy for your project. Also, don’t forget to vote for your favorite community skin – we have an Xbox and free RadControls licenses waiting for the winners. Voting will close on September, 15th. Once again, I would like to express our enormous gratitude to everyone who took the time to contribute their custom-made skins to the program. What started as a...
    September 05, 2008
  • People

    Visual Style Builder Survey

    Once again, I am excited to announce the start of a new initiative to improve the user experience with skinning the Telerik controls. We are starting work on a new Visual Style Builder application for the ASP.NET AJAX Controls and a major upgrade of the existing application for the WinForms Controls. The Visual Style Builder will allow easy, point-and-click customization of component skins, eliminating the need to get acquainted with the front-end structure of the controls. The Visual Style Builder will also speed up development of skins across several components - you will be able to define a style once and...
    July 28, 2008
  • Web

    Skin Exchange Program

    I am enthusiastic to announce the launch of the Telerik Skin Exchange Program – http://www.telerik.com/skins! We have created a meeting place for community members to exchange home-grown skins for the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX components. We know a lot of you have come up with amazing designs for our components and wanted to enable a platform to show these off and help the community. Seeing the tremendous support you guys give to each other every day on our forums and code library, I am confident you will take up on the initiative so we can build up a useful new resource...
    July 24, 2008