Web: ASP.NET MVC

Hi every one, I want to take a moment and introduce you to a series I will be writing here on Telerik blogs.  I will be creating an MVC2 application utilizing Telerik MVC extensions, Open Access, and jQuery.  The goal is to discuss real world problems that are faced when building this type of application, and to show solutions to these issues. It will start with building a model, then the DAL, and then move onto UI issues.  I will also show ways to handle large record sets with OA fetch plans/caching, and show some tips/tricks to help keep the UI...

The Visual Style Builder for ASP.NET is now compatible with the shiny MVC extensions. The generated CSS code got a bit smaller, too. In order to celebrate this, I give you the lovely PinkPanther skin, for your visual pleasure.

Sometimes when performing ajax databinding with the MVC grid you may end up with unexpected result: server error 500. What is even stranger is that server-side binding works as expected with the same data binding code. Let’s demystify this problem: The problem You will see the following  if you use FireBug or Fiddler to inspect the response: The error message is “A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type” followed by some type. If you google this up you will find out that this exception is thrown by the JavaScriptSerializer class because of circular references detected. “What the heck is a...

[Download the complete final project] We got a customer inquiry today about how to integrate the Telerik Silverlight Upload control within an ASP.NET MVC site. This is quite an interesting scenario, especially with the new Drag and Drop from the file system coming with our Silverlight 4 release in the mid-March. I was not sure what should be done to run the SL upload in the MVC site. This was my first time experience with ASP.NET MVC 2 and it turned out to be a very pleasant and easy one. These are the steps that need to be followed: 1. Create an ASP.NET MVC site: 2....

If you really, really like the new and shiny extensions, you can use them in your WebForms application, too! Here are the needed steps: Add references to the following assemblies: System.Web.Abstractions System.Web.Routing System.Web.Mvc Telerik.Web.Mvc The first three are usually in the GAC. Copy the Content and Scripts folders from the extensions’ distribution into your project. The pages which will contain the MVC components will need to inherit System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage. Also, you should mock an MVC environment, like this: protected class ControllerMock : Controller { public ControllerMock(NameValueCollection queryString) { foreach (string param in queryString.Keys) ...