Web: ASP.NET AJAX

With the newest version already out, I am happy to present you the latest accessibility improvements of our RadFileExplorer control from the ASP.NET AJAX suite. Now, you don't need the mouse to delete a folder or open a file! Simply focus the FileExplorer, navigate to the grid or treeview using the [Shift+]Tab key, select the desired folder with the Arrow keys and press Delete. A popup dialog asks you to confirm the deletion. Hit Enter to delete, or Esc to cancel.       This was just an example of a common scenario, that could be carried out using the keyboard only. We have ensured that any use case...

It's Q1 2011 release time for the Telerik Personal Productivity product line and we, the guys from the ASP.NET AJAX team are excited to share news of improvement, new functionality and a brand new control added to the arsenal of the Telerik AJAX developer. In this blog post, I want to talk about some major functionality one of the new players in the AJAX control suite now sports - editing for RadTreeList. RadTreeList for ASP.NET AJAX was introduced last quarter (Q3 2010) and enabled hierarchical visualization of a single tabular data set. As a databound tabular control, it is naturally compared to RadGrid, and not only because both look visually alike. As...

We just love inventing tools. It’s one of those things hardcoded in our genome. There’s a great joy in seeing your invention work for you and all you have to do is sit back and sip a beer debug the hell out of it. But I digress. During the conversion of our online examples to the Razor view engine we’ve came up with a simple tool to help us. We didn’t have great hopes for it, as completely automatic conversion is hardly possible. It’s purpose was to take care of the bulk of the conversion, leaving the more fine points to the human...

RadGrid's client-side databinding capabilities got boosted to a new level with the Q3 2010 release of Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. RadGrid now supports automatic databinding to OData web services. For those of you who have never heard, OData (short for Open Data) is a data exchange protocol that enables data transactions to be carried over standard web protocols (HTTP, Atom, and JSON). OData exposes your data over the web to a variety of consumers, building on technology that is widely adopted. With the Q3 2010 release, we have added automatic client-side databinding support for OData services. To configure RadGrid for binding to an OData service, you...

The Q3 release RadControls will come packed with shiny features and a couple of new controls, but that’s not all! We’ve fiddled with the complex machinery under the hood and made it better too. Let me introduce you the new and improved provider interface (ABC, actually) for RadScheduler: public abstract class SchedulerProviderBase : ProviderBase {     public virtual IEnumerable<Appointment> GetAppointments(ISchedulerInfo schedulerInfo) { }     public virtual IDictionary<ResourceType, IEnumerable<Resource>> GetResources(ISchedulerInfo schedulerInfo) { }     public virtual void Insert(ISchedulerInfo schedulerInfo, Appointment appointmentToInsert) { }     public virtual void Update(ISchedulerInfo schedulerInfo, Appointment appointmentToUpdate) { }    ...