Web: ASP.NET AJAX

For those of you who are not subscribed to my Telerik Watch blog, I want to bring your attention to some important news. The Ajax Manager WebCast that I'll be doing with Microsoft this week is already full! Clearly everyone is eager to see the latest from Telerik and how we're embracing ASP.NET AJAX and I want to thank everyone for making this WebCast an early success. The good news for those of you who did not register in time is that the entire event will be available on demand sometime next week. For full details on accessing the on...

Today I had another trivial problem that was unbelievably hard to debug just because I could not tell that an error caused by a web resource was caused by exactly that resource. I was dealing with a forgotten [WebResource] attribute that did not have a matching resource built in the assembly and both generated a server side exception and gave browsers a 404 HTTP error. I wanted to decrypt the query string data that was being passed to WebResource.axd and extract the resource and assembly name from it. MSDN told me that what I needed was the "d" query string parameter, as it contained the encrypted assembly and resource name. The...

As some of you probably know telerik was very quick to ensure that radControls for ASP.NET are fully compatible with the official v1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX. (The full announcement) We have had the opportunity to follow the development of this new framework quite closely and to hear a wide range of comments on the new extension for the ASP.NET platform. Historically, we have been among the pioneer control vendors to make sure that customers can take full advantage of all radControls capabilities when used in ASP.NET AJAX applications. This new client-side framework release is very important ...

The time has come when we need to make a decision that may affect some of you (most of you) - we need to make a decision whether or not to stop adding new features and products to the .NET 1.x version of rad Controls for ASP.NET. For over a year we have maintained parallel .NET 1.x and .NET 2.0 versions of our controls and this has worked out well for us and for customers. On the downside, maintaining a release schedule with a set of nearly 20 ASP.NET controls, with .NET 1.x and .NET 2.0 versions, different help files for each...

If you are wondering how to get started with ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed “Atlas”) and telerik r.a.d.controls here is a new page on the website which shows a few common scenarios:http://www.telerik.com/products/ajax/asp.net-ajax-atlas.aspx. As more and more customers start using ASP.NET AJAX in their projects we will continue to enrich the “Atlas” demos. Please, let us know how you use the new AJAX framework and what you expect from us as resources for your implementations.