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    How to: Optimize RadCombobox Ajax

    One of the nice things about attending conferences like TechEd is all of the direct feedback you get from Telerik "fans" (people that use the RadControls everyday and love them). These fans love to use the RadControls and they also love to push the controls to their limits. That often leads to some interesting questions, such as this one I was presented with at the Telerik booth:"Is it possible to delay the RadCombobox autocomplete callback until a certain number of characters have been typed? Or is it possible to delay the callback so that it doesn't start until users stop...
    June 18, 2007
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    RadControls in Safari for Windows

    Like it or not, another browser has been added to the list of Windows browsers that you need to test your application against before deploying to production. Apple's release of Safari for Windows is unlikely to to win a lot of converts from FireFox and IE, but if your application must be widely available to as many users as possible it cannot be ignored in your testing. One of the advantages of using RadControls in your projects is Telerik's dedication to delivering cross browser compatibility. And even though Safari on Windows is still a beta product (thus not officially supported by...
    June 18, 2007
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    Ubiquitous: a funny word that unearths some PowerShell trivia

    Do you think that the word "ubiquitous" can be hard on a non-native English speaker's ears. It is hard for Bulgarians, that I am sure. I picked it for the title because I really like its the strangeness and because it has a nice allusion to the software development best practice of automating everything that you get your hands on: tests, build procedures, and deployment. You need that to gain predictability in your project and ensure rapid and often delivery of new features. What surprised me was Jeffrey Snover's (yes, the architect behind PowerShell) comment about the original use of the word...
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    All style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in Internet Explorer workaround

    Did you know that all style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in Internet Explorer? Well this applies to IE7 and LINK elements too and if you have such page for example you are lost: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" /> <link type="text/css"...
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    The new Silverlight media player

    I just checked our brand new still unpublished Silverlight media player control and I have to say that I'm really amazed!!! Just check this:Isn't it cool? :-)Common guys post some more info/demos on this :-)...