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    Windows 8 RTM. Who Cares.

    If you missed all the excitement on the interwebs yesterday, you should know that Windows 8 officially went RTM. My good friend and prolific animated GIF pundit John Bristowe posted this apt metaphor of the frenzy over at MSDN. You can count me in the pile of chaos...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
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    Rocking Kendo UI in Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8

    It's an exciting time for developers using Visual Studio 2012 or targeting Windows 8. With recent announcements regarding availability of these products, the obvious question of support with Kendo UI is being asked by developers. Rest assured, the team building Kendo UI has been working hard...
    June 10, 2025 5 min read
  • Web

    Introduction to RadBulletGraph

    When you install RadControls for Metro two files are placed on your desktop. One is the QSF for HTML/JavaScript and the other is for XAML/C#. Not only will these samples demonstrate how powerful the controls are, the code in the sample applications can serve as an excellent learning tool. In this blog post, I will tease out of the QSF for XAML the fundamentals of creating a RadBulletGraph. A bullet graph is a very concise way to convey a primary measure (e.g., current revenue) compared to one or more other measures (e.g., a target revenue) in the context of qualitative ranges (e.g,...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Web

    Ask Kendo UI: 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...
    June 10, 2025 11 min read