Web: ASP.NET AJAX

This is the third and last in a series of blog posts on the new client-side databinding features we've introduced to RadListView with the Q1 2012 release. In the first blog post, we introduced you to the basics of client-side databinding in RadListView - how to define HTML templates, how to use binding expressions and what properties does the binding context provide for greater flexibility. In the second blog post we showed you how easy it is to bind to any kind of web services. In this blog post, let's dive deeper into the client-side databinding internals in RadListView. We'll see how to implementing paging, sorting and filtering to...

In the previous series of OData binding related posts we introduced OData support for our Grid, ListView and navigation controls. Well, it is time for a new control to utilize such binding. I am happy to announce that forth from Q2 2012 one can easily bind the Telerik's ASP.NET Ajax Scheduler to OData exposed feed using simple markup. Why OData One may ask why OData when it is possible to expose AppointmentData objects via simple ASMX/WCF service and have the Scheduler directly bound? Well, the OData binding gives you the freedom to bind against any JSON structure, as long as the core scheduler Data...

This is the second in a series of blog posts on the new RadListView client-side databinding features. In the first post, we introduced you to the basics of HTML templates, binding expressions and the databinding model in RadListView. In this post, we will see how RadListView supports automatic (read codeless) databinding to web services and JSON feeds. For a quick reference, here is a brief list of the sections in this blog post: Web Service Types And Requirements How Web Service Binding Works RadListView DataService Settings Supported HTTP Methods And Default Parameters Binding To ASMX Web Services Binding To WCF Services Binding To OData Services Binding To Any General JSON Feed

One of the major goals web developers have when building web applications is performance. In general there are three areas that can be improved to achieve better overall performance: the server-side generation of the requested page, the time it takes for the page and all of its web resources to be downloaded by the browser and the performance of the rendered page in the browser. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX have been, are, and will continue to be Telerik's promise for easily building great ASP.NET web applications, which are both beautiful and performant. There was however a small area where the tools lacked behind -...

The Q1 2012 beta release is out the door and we have some exciting new improvements to brag about. Among everything else is a feature long waited for - client-side databinding for RadListView. In a series of blog posts, I will try to introduce you to the specifics of the client-side databinding with RadListView and give you some insight into the new client capabilities that you can leverage to build performant data bound UI on the client. We will start with a brief introduction to HTML templates, binding expressions and databinding API, we'll go down to databinding to web services and various data sources and will finish off...