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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Taming Ajaxified asp:HiddenField Controls in Internet Explorer

    If you are using asp:HiddenField controls (rendered as <input type="hidden" />) in your website and update their values with AJAX requests, you may observe some unexpected changes in the page layout in Internet Explorer (IE). It will seem that an empty line is inserted at each location where a HiddenField control resides. The behavior is observed only in IE and looks like a problem caused by the browser or the MS AJAX client-side framework. A quite easy workaround for this glitch is to wrap the HiddenField in a container with no height and reduced font size. Here is an...
    December 09, 2008
  • Web

    How To: Export grid to PDF file and show the result using the window

    I've made small demo how to export the grid content to a PDF file and show the result using RadWindow: When you click the "Export" button in RadToolBar the page will be reloaded and if the export is successful the application will open RadWindow to show the exported file. Initially the "Delete" button is disabled however once the window is shown the button will be enabled. To delete the exported file you can click the "Delete" button or just close the window. [Live | Download]...
    December 08, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Easily persist RadTabStrip Selected Tab using client-side API

    While working on a recent "real" project for Telerik, I used the RadTabStrip for ASP.NET AJAX to provide users with a list of content they could navigate. It was simple enough. A RadTabStrip with a few tabs, a RadMultiPage holding each tab's content, and content on each pageview that linked to new pages in the website. With very little effort, I had a rich, tabbed interface that worked completely cross browser. But then during beta testing, a tester reported a bug: if they navigated to a new page by clicking on content in the TabStrip, then clicked their browser's back button,...
    December 05, 2008
  • Web

    Auto-complete ComboBox with WCF Service and RadControls for Silverlight

    Sometimes we need to load very large amount of items in a ComboBox and let the user select one of them. Usually in those cases the ComboBox allows typing in order to auto-select the items, that contain the text in the control. Such scenarios are possible with RadComboBox for Silverlight and now I will show you a simple application, that demonstrates what I think is a better practice for the implementation. We want to put all words from the English dictionary of RadSpell for ASP.NET in a RadComboBox for Silverlight and allow the user to select one of them, that will...
    December 04, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadTips, Episode 10: Add an 'ExportToPdf' Button to the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX

    Welcome back to another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes... Getting Started with the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX Using the LinqDataSource in your RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX  Customizing Appointments with Resources in the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX  Customizing Templates in the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX  Spell-Checking with the RadSpell for ASP.NET AJAX This Tip In this episode...
    December 03, 2008