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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Migrating OnClientClick handlers from ASP button to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Button

    Let’s start with some background – a common need is for a button to execute some JavaScript code in order to create a more responsive page. With the standard ASP:Button the OnClientClick is used to specify this execution statement. Take the following simple example: <script type="text/javascript">     function ButtonClick(button) {         alert("The Button with ID " + button.id + " was clicked.");     } </script> <asp:Button ID="Button1" Text="Regular Button" OnClientClick="ButtonClick(this); return false;" runat="server" />   What you can see here is a function called with parentheses, an argument provided to the function and the return false; statement that prevents the postback. The case with Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Button is slightly different, however. It follows the convention all other Telerik ASP.NET AJAX...
    August 10, 2012
  • Web

    Ask Kendo UI &ndash; Server Side Sorting With WebAPI

    In the past few months, I’ve learned a lot about WebAPI and using Kendo UI with ASP.NET by creating the HTML5 Development For ASP.NET Developers series. While the company behind Kendo UI has a distinguished .NET pedigree, Kendo UI itself is completely server agnostic. That means...
    August 10, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    The best fit for your project - Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox or AutoCompleteBox?

    We have always tried to listen to our customers' feedback and act accordingly in order to provide the best service possible and deliver more than expected:). A common feature request that we are receiving these days is to provide token input that has the same functionality as the one that can be found in Facebook, for example. On a side note, we have noticed that every now and then there are customers, who are having a hard time configuring our RadComboBox in load on demand/autocomplete scenarios. Then an idea came to our minds. - “Hey, why don’t you extract the auto complete...
    August 06, 2012
  • Web

    Hello Kendo UI Part 2&ndash;Grid CRUD

    In part 1 of the Hello Kendo UI series, I went over how to create a Kendo UI grid and how to push some of the remote operations to the server. In this module, I will be covering how to fully enable CRUD operations in the...
  • Web

    App Permissions Are a Waste of Time

    There is a troubling trend in modern app platforms. If you’ve ever installed any app on an Android device, Facebook, Chrome, or used OAuth to log-in to a web app, you’ve probably seen a screen like this: OR These are screens asking if you’d like to give an...
    July 26, 2012