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    Gantt View Tutorial

    Today is Wednesday, and that means another XAMLFlix tutorial – tutorials based on the XAMLFlix video series.  Today’s Gantt View Tutorial shows you how to get started with the control, set up relations and highlighting, create a Custom Gantt task and more, with RadGanttView. Gantt View      Tutorial   Video Please feel free to share your comments and feedback. We’d especially love to hear which controls you’d like to see covered...
  • Web

    Call to Action: Make LESS Native in Modern Browsers

    It’s no secret. I’m a LESS fan. A BIG fan. If you’re not familiar with LESS, it’s an elegant CSS pre-processor that imbues the CSS syntax you already know with the kind of super powers you wish your styling language had out-of-the-box. Variables. Operations. Hierarchal rules. Mix-ins. LESS...
    May 01, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Time Saving Features For MVC Developers

    I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awesome in the extensions. VS Extensions Telerik’s MVC extensions come with built in Visual Studio extensions to make project creation, and configuration, a snap.  In addition, the extensions include a variety of project templates to help start new projects: 
    April 27, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    The Present and Future of Using JSON in WebForms

    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the way to handle data on the client these days. It really is the cat’s pajamas. Almost all the client-side widgets or libraries that you’ll be working with will most likely be utilizing JSON, and sending large chunks of data over the wire as JSON as opposed to other bulky forms of data can lead to some dramatic performance increase across any application. I often come across individuals not sure of what JSON is, or how they can use it today, and I wanted to address this issue in a blog post. Of course I...
    April 27, 2012
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Take a Walk on the Client Side with WebAPI and WebForms

    In my last blog I introduced the basics of using ASP.NET AJAX and WebAPI together in the same project.  In addition, I showed how to bind results from WebAPI to a Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Grid. In this blog I will continue down this path and implement insert, update, and delete operations using WebAPI and RadGrid! Note: While this post focuses on using WebAPI in conjunction with RadGrid, most of the client code can be used when working with RadGrid in client mode.Set It Up! To get started an additional reference needs to be added to the project: System.Net.Http.Formatting Adding this reference allows us...
    April 26, 2012