Web: ASP.NET AJAX

For those of you who have missed the live webinar last week a recording is now available on Telerik TV. There are plenty of tips how to optimize your ASP.NET AJAX applications and especially those with RadGrid....

In July Microsoft released a preview of its upcoming Silverlight 3 RIA Services Framework which comes along with a new data source control – DomainDataSource. The DomainDataSource introduces a new way of accessing data by giving us a nice separation from the particular representation of our Data Model and more control over how the data is being retrieved or manipulated. This post will provide you with a quick walk-through on how to use the DomainDataSource with our RadGrid control. Install Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview As mentioned above the DomainDataSource control is part of the MS .NET RIA Services Framework, so...

Too much stuff! Must click little link: to the Style Builder! What's new? RadMenu, RadComboBox and RadInput get their share of styling goodness updated to the new-and-shiny 2009.Q2 release (featuring the real mode of RadColorPicker) the sought-after "base color" in Colorization is available I hope that you will like the UI. We revised it a few times before settling for this. The position of the "Apply" button was way off into nowhere (and, honestly speaking, it still is in the advanced edit). A note about colorization While the 'colorize' mode is indeed more useful (and probably sufficient in most scenarios), the old 'shift colors' algorithm has its...

Hi all, First of all let me introduce myself - my name is Nikolay Rusev and I am developer at one of Telerik's ASP.NET teams. I will talk about a couple of the RadGrid sometimes easily overlooked and at the same time unique features - item selection and keyboard navigation. With the new Q2 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX there are a lot of improvements in both directions: enhanced multi row selection using Ctrl and/or Shift keys firing predefined RadGrid command on key events:  Edit when Enter key is pressed Update/PerformInsert command on Enter key press when current focused control is...

In this blog post I will try to explain how CSS z-index works and a how to avoid a few common mistakes. First of all the z-index is used to control the z-order of positioned HTML elements. Simply put it controls the stacking order of HTML elements. To set it set the "z-index" CSS attribute of your element to some integer value. Z-index works only for positioned elements. Positioned elements are elements whose "position" CSS attribute is set to "relative", "absolute" or "fixed". The default "position" is "static" which means that by default setting z-index has no effect. Z-index is NOT measured in...