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    5 Benefits of Developing JavaScript Sites & Apps

    Now that the first Kendo UI beta is out, we’re starting to get tons of great feedback. One the common observations in early feedback is that many people are still struggling to fully understand why you would want to migrate towards JavaScript development instead of using traditional...
    August 09, 2011
  • Web

    Kendo UI Eye Candy: Widgets

    While Kendo UI is much more than UI, user interface widgets are a big part of the Kendo UI beta. Kendo UI is a growing collection of more than 12 UI widgets that serve as the building blocks for constructing rich, JavaScript interfaces. Kendo UI includes...
    August 05, 2011
  • Web

    Intro to Kendo UI

    Today is a very exciting day! After months of stealth development we are finally introducing the first public beta of Kendo UI, a HTML5, jQuery-based framework for building modern HTML apps. Kendo UI combines the best of HTML5, CSS3, and evolving JavaScript APIs to deliver a...
    August 04, 2011
  • Web

    Using Telerik OpenAccess ORM Spatial Data with RadMap for Silverlight

    Spatial data is all the rage, everyone wants a map in their application to quickly visualize data.  In a previous blog I showed how you could query, and display, SQL Spatial data on RadMap for WPF using Telerik OpenAccess ORM.  In this blog, I will show you how to display the data on RadMap for Silverlight.  This adds a slight twist because we need to transport the SQL Spatial data across a service boundary, but thanks to some updates in RadMap this is still an easy process; so lets take a look! Database Setup The first thing we need is some spatial data. In...
    July 29, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Getting Started with RadNotification

    Having the ability to quickly, and easily, present an important piece of information to your users is very important. However, having a huge window or a JavaScript alert popup appear in the middle of the screen certainly isn’t too discrete and can end up annoying the user. This is why we created the RadNotification control. This new component allows you to have a similar popup to what you might already be used to from Outlook, a quick box that appears somewhere on the screens and then later disappears. In this blog post we will take a look at this new...