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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Easily add social networks buttons with RadSocialShare for ASP.NET AJAX

    Sharing on social networks has become a very powerful tool to make your website popular and to boost its traffic. We have made it easy to allow people to share content on social networks and via email by creating the new RadSocialShare control for ASP.NET AJAX. The control will officially be available in the Q3 2011 release later this month, but you can test drive it now in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q3 2011 BETA. Main features: Allows sharing the current page or a custom URL on different social networks. You can easily customize the sharing content –...
    November 04, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta - New Org Chart and Social Share controls, Metro skin and more

    The final major release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX for this year brings new controls, embedded Metro skin and a plethora of new features for the existing controls to the table. The Q3 2011 Beta preview which has just been uploaded on the site (both for TRIAL and COMMERCIAL users) grants a direct access to the pre-release bits to play with them at your disposal. Read on to learn more about the Beta: Org Chart | Social Share | Metro Skin | Items drag and drop on mobile The Premium Telerik AJAX component set grows with a couple more controls - Org Chart and...
    October 25, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Location and Localization - two new charms in the Telerik AJAX CarRental sample app

    When we conferred internally (in the beginning of the current quarter) on the update of the AJAX Car Rental sample application, we asked ourselves the substantial question: How can we make this example even more useful for the developers? And going through the functionality it incorporated, we made the important deduction: Add car location, to make the vehicles more easily discoverable all over the world and Include localization to remove the language barrier for users that are not proficient in English. For the first part the most natural choice was to choose to integrate...
    October 13, 2011
  • People Accessibility

    Need Accessibility in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps? You’re Already Covered

    Here at Telerik accessibility support has always been important. We strive to ensure that when you are developing an application with our ASP.NET AJAX controls you can rest easy knowing that they provide compliance with some of the highest standards in the industry. Ease-of-mind and ease-of-implementation, does it get any better? :) Let’s take a look at just how we are making your applications more accessible. Accessibility Guidelines For a while now Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls have been in compliance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0/2.0 (say that a few times fast!). These guidelines set standards for applications providing accessible content by...
    October 06, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    If you haven't heard, Odata is a Web protocol that exposes your data to the Web, allowing consumers to make queries through a set of URI parameters. RadGrid, Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX Grid control features a rich client-side API that enables you to easily bind to OData services and have all the paging, sorting and filtering done without ever posting the page to the server. That is all fine if your data is flat. Binding to hierarchical data, however, is another story. RadGrid officially supports hierarchical databinding on the server only. But let's go unofficial for a while. In this blog post we'll demonstrate an approach for detail table databinding...
    October 03, 2011