Telerik blogs
  • Release

    Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC and the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

    With today’s introduction of the ASP.NET MVC wrappers for Kendo UI, or Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC as they’re officially called, many questions are sure to arise about their relationship to the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. While the FAQs on KendoUI.com noted our plans for ASP.NET MVC from the outset, today’s release brings more clarity to our long-term plans. In this blog post, I’m going to explain how the release of Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC impacts the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Note: If you’d like to know more about Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC beta, please read this blog...
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Resolving circular references when binding the MVC Grid

    Sometimes when performing ajax databinding with the MVC grid you may end up with unexpected result: server error 500. What is even stranger is that server-side binding works as expected with the same data binding code. Let’s demystify this problem: The problem You will see the following  if you use FireBug or Fiddler to inspect the response: The error message is “A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type” followed by some type. If you google this up you will find out that this exception is thrown by the JavaScriptSerializer class because of circular references detected. “What the heck is a...
    January 25, 2010