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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Easily Generate QR Codes with Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Barcode Control

    A typical scenario is for someone to browse a website on his computer, and then to wish to open a link of the site on his cellphone. It would be easier for the person to open it, if it’s encoded as an image that the phone can directly read, because smartphones cannot understand human readable text, but most of them can read images, called QR codes. What are QR (Quick Response) codes and how are they used? The QR is a two-dimensional code. It looks like a matrix which consists of black square dots (modules) on a white background. Text information can...
    October 30, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Telerik’s Major ASP.NET Data Visualization Controls in a New Sample App

    You must have noticed we have been working aggressively on improving the data visualization arsenal of Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls over the past year. This is why we thought it was about time we combined the new Gauge, PivotGrid and AutoCompleteBox controls with the enhanced HTML5 Chart into a simple and compact website application. Naturally, with all the hype about this year's Olympic Games the theme for the app was quite obvious. ;) The sample ASP.NET app Olympic Games showcases how easy it is to provide data presentation and management functionality to your users and how you can integrate several major controls with just a few lines of code. Of...
    October 26, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Using Kendo UI With MVC4, WebAPI, OData And EF

    This is a quick guide for using ASP.NET MVC4 WebAPI, OData, and Entity Framework as a remote data source for Kendo UI, as well as performing some operations like filtering on the server side. (If you just want to copy/paste some JavaScript that works, with no explanation...
    October 26, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Uploading Files with Telerik’s ASP.NET Async Upload Control More Flexible than Ever

      Following closely our customers’ feature requests and the latest browser implementations concerning the Html5 FileApi, we keep on our development tradition by adding to Telerik’s ASP.NET Async Upload five new features and support for uploading files in iPad/iPhone iOS. Drag-and-Drop From Q3.2012 RadAsyncUpload supports uploading files by dropping them not only over the upload itself but also over different DropZones on the page. This is easily achieved by setting the DropZones property which lists CSS selectors (with comma separators) allowing users to have a more intuitive functionality. More details can be found in this demo. Manual Upload  Another functionality that provides more flexibility in the process of...
    October 24, 2012
  • Web

    Inheriting From Custom Widgets

    I had the privilege this week of attending the DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. For those of you who are not already familiar, Telerik (the company which makes Kendo UI) originated in Bulgaria. There are offices here where you will find engineers, product managers, marketing,...
    October 17, 2012