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  • People

    The Telerik Menu

    The Telerik Visual Studio Extensions are now included in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and RadControls for Silverlight installers in order to make the development of applications with Telerik RadControls faster and easier. The main entry point for the Visual Studio Extensions is the Telerik menu. It is context sensitive and changes its state depending on the projects you are working on. 1) Create New Telerik Project menu item This state can be observed when no solution is opened or the currently selected project is not suitable for use with RadControls. Using the Create New Telerik Project menu item you can create a new Telerik Project with...
    November 13, 2009 2 min read
  • Release

    Upgrade Wizard: auto-upgrades and more

    Developers (yours truly included) often hate it when there is a need to deal with an external tool to accomplish a simple task. The upgrade process of RadControls seems such a task – you need to start a browser, open the Telerik website, login to your account, navigate to the Downloads section, download the installer and run it. Even more - if you want to keep updated you need to either check your RSS reader or e-mail, or refresh the Downloads page when you’re eagerly waiting for a new version.   One of the new features in the RadControls for ASP.NET...
    October 26, 2009 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio 2010: Code snippets for “RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX”

    To enable support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 you will need to select “Complete” when installing RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2009 SP1     One cool new feature of Visual Studio 2010 is that snippets now work in the HTML editor. Code snippets for C# and VB have been supported in previous versions of Visual Studio, however the new HTML Snippets feature gives you the same productivity boost when writing markup or ASP.NET server control declarations in the HTML Editor.   The following procedure describe how to use RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX code snippets:   In Visual Studio 2010, on the File menu, point to New...
    August 27, 2009 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Common RadWindow issues and their solution

    The RadWindow control is part of the Telerik’s RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite and is intended to replace the standard browser’s popup (window.open()). Since the control is based on an IFRAME, it behaves just like one – basically, whatever can be done with an IFRAME, can be achieved with RadWindow as well. This fact is useful when you investigate a reason for some problem related to the RadWindow control. Just replace the RadWindow with a standard IFRAME or browser’s popup and see how your application will behave in this case. If the problem still exists, then it is not related to the...
    June 04, 2009 4 min read
  • Release

    The new installer of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

    Hi there, We're excited to present you the brand new installer of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2009 SP2 suite. The installer passed all the internal tests successfully. I’d like to mention that we plan to add even more stuff for the official version (scheduled for Q2 2009). The new installer is still in beta testing phase and the official download is still using the “old” installer. Both installers extract exactly the same DLLs, Demos, Resources, Documentation, etc. So what’s inside: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Visual Studio Extensions are now shipped with the controls, allowing the creation, configuration and upgrade of a Telerik Web...
    May 28, 2009 1 min read