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    Kendo UI, MVVM and KnockoutJS

    One of the major features we’re working on for the next release of Kendo UI is a fresh JavaScript implementation of the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. For those not familiar, MVVM is a popular model of development that relies heavily on declarative bindings and observable elements...
    February 16, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Minified CSS for your RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Enjoy!

    One of the major goals web developers have when building web applications is performance. In general there are three areas that can be improved to achieve better overall performance: the server-side generation of the requested page, the time it takes for the page and all of its web resources to be downloaded by the browser and the performance of the rendered page in the browser. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX have been, are, and will continue to be Telerik's promise for easily building great ASP.NET web applications, which are both beautiful and performant. There was however a small area where the tools lacked behind -...
    February 11, 2012
  • Web

    Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM

    As many of you may know, KendoUI is a really awesome new JavaScript framework that combines everything needed for modern JS development into one sweet package.  One of the features it provides is the ability to bind different UI controls to various data sources; so in this blog I will show you how OpenAccess ORM can be leveraged on the backend, and KendoUI can take care of the front end! Getting Set Up To get started create a new ASP.Net Empty Web Application. Note: You can really use any web based project template you like, in this walkthrough I just chose to start with nothing. :) Once...
    February 07, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Client-Side DataBinding with RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX - Part 1

    The Q1 2012 beta release is out the door and we have some exciting new improvements to brag about. Among everything else is a feature long waited for - client-side databinding for RadListView. In a series of blog posts, I will try to introduce you to the specifics of the client-side databinding with RadListView and give you some insight into the new client capabilities that you can leverage to build performant data bound UI on the client. We will start with a brief introduction to HTML templates, binding expressions and databinding API, we'll go down to databinding to web services and various data sources and will finish off...
    February 06, 2012
  • Web

    jQuery UI vs Kendo UI

    If you have had your ear to the ground of the interwebs over the past 48 hours, you may have seen that our very own John Bristowe launched a brand new site called jqueryuivskendoui.com.  It’s been making the rounds through Twitter,  Hacker News, Reddit and various other places. Additionally...
    February 03, 2012