Web: ASP.NET AJAX

As we are constantly trying to improve our controls, in Q3 2011 we are introducing new HTML rendering for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Input control – single input rendering. First of all I should assure you that the old rendering is still available, so all your custom styles and complicated scenarios with RadInput will still work. Let’s check some of the advantages of the single input rendering mode comes with:  No table is used when having buttons and/or labels, which results in quicker rendering. Less HTML is rendered as a whole, which leads to less data transferred to the client. The control can show readable text when...

Probably all of us have identified at some point the following trend in software development — newer version usually means bigger assemblies. Sure, some of the new stuff is features that we use on a daily basis; but some of the new stuff is just eye candy that we don't always use. In fact, wouldn't it be nice if we could get just the software with the default looks; get the job done then and, if needed, add that sweet UI candy to it later? And in order to tackle this problem — maintain a reasonable file size of the main Telerik...

Starting from Q3 2011, the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX gets a new dialog - Insert External Video, which provides the ability to easily embed a YouTube or a Vimeo stream providing just the URL. Steps to insert a video: Open the  Insert External Video dialog and paste the copied video link into the Paste Youtube or Vimeo video URL textbox, e.g.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWv11JDPy24 To preview the video and enable the Embed video settings panel click outside of the textbox after you paste the URL. It is possible to configure the video using the Aspect ratio, Width and Height customization options, as well as to choose whether the video will play...

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 –...

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...