Telerik blogs
  • Web

    Rocking Kendo UI in Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8

    It's an exciting time for developers using Visual Studio 2012 or targeting Windows 8. With recent announcements regarding availability of these products, the obvious question of support with Kendo UI is being asked by developers. Rest assured, the team building Kendo UI has been working hard...
    June 10, 2025 5 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    TeamPulse (Hearts) Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC

    A while back, I wrote a blog post detailing how Kendo UI is used in TeamPulse xView™ UI. If you'd like the kick the tires yourself, check out our online demo: It's awesome. It's hotter than two bears fighting in a forest fire. What you may not know...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read