Web: ASP.NET AJAX

Barcodes are everywhere. They are printed on retail products for easier identification. They are used for encoding numbers and keys for all kinds of tickets for concerts, shows and movies. They are even used to track your luggage with a baggage tag in the airport. Most of these uses are out of our industry, but barcodes are getting more and more popularity on the web as well. What is more, they are easy to use, because they are scalable with smartphones.  A common scenario is when you show a barcode with some data in your site, and your clients are...

Having a chart control in your arsenal is of great value because it visualizes significant information in an easily digestible manner. This is of great use for numerous scenarios - showing statistical data, displaying revenue and flow of numerical data, implementing reports, assembling analytics solutions, for pure scientific purposes or just for fun. A chart can be displayed in many different manners, e.g as shown below:   Implementing a chart solution, however, is a pretty time-consuming task and that is why we at Telerik decided to provide this powerful data visualization tool out of the box for our customers. With the new HtmlChart...

This is the fourth module in the ongoing course, HTML5 Development for ASP.NET Developers. In case you're just joining us, here's what we've covered so far: Hello jQuery Hello Services / WebAPI, REST, JSON and AJAX Hello HTML5 In this module, we'll focus on ASP.NET Web Forms. ASP.NET Web Forms has been...

Have you ever experienced difficulties with hitting a button on a touch screen because of the button’s small size? Haven’t you wished texts were larger so you don’t need to zoom-in to read? No more troubles - our new MetroTouch skin for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls is coming on board with Q2 2012, expected in about a week!    

When I first started out developing web pages back in the day there barely were any tools for development outside of the IDEs that were offered, which weren’t too much to write home about anyways. While some might say that web pages that were manly cluttered with animated GIFs and content related to Warcraft 1 & 2 and Diablo 1 (tells you a lot about my child hood ;)) is not considered much of a web development project, I still say it is (or was) :D. Either way, you wrote your HTML, CSS (fairly new too) and JavaScript and hoped...