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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadTips, Episode 1: Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid

    I am pleased to bring you the first of many episodes from my new video series, RadTips. These episodes will be posted regularly here on the Telerik blogs, and each will highlight a specific feature of a RadControl in a short, concise screencast. The point of this effort is to bring you quick tips on how to take advantage of the features of our RadControls without having to devote more than a few minutes of your time to the learning process. In this first episode, we'll take a look at client-side data binding with the RadGrid. There are no bells and...
    July 31, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Telerik RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX client-side data binding to ADO.NET DataServices

    We just extended RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX with native client-side data binding to ADO.NET DataServices. Now you can use getDataServiceQuery() method and the grid will construct ADO.NET DataService style query: var northwindService = new Sys.Data.DataService("NorthwindDataService.svc"); var tableView = $find("<%= RadGrid1.ClientID %>").get_masterTableView(); northwindService.query(tableView.getDataServiceQuery("Customers"), updateGrid); All operations like paging, sorting and filtering are automatically persisted using $top, $skip, $orderby and $filter...
  • Web

    Using an HttpModule to Run a Background Service

    This is a great technique for those of you who need to run a service on your web server, but are using shared hosting and don't have the ability to do so. I first saw this technique at one of Rob Howard's TechEd sessions earlier this year. If you have the need to do some routine processing, typically you would consider writing a Windows service. For example, if you were running a web application which pulls data from multiple other sites and web services you might want to periodically load that data into a database and serve it from there rather...
    July 25, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Telerik RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008 client-side edit using templates

    I've made three demos on how to use RadGrid templates to build completely client-side edit and update: - server-side GridTemplateColumn - server-side GridTableView ItemTemplate - client-side GridTableView ItemTemplate (ASP.NET AJAX 4.0...
  • Web

    Skin Exchange Program

    I am enthusiastic to announce the launch of the Telerik Skin Exchange Program – http://www.telerik.com/skins! We have created a meeting place for community members to exchange home-grown skins for the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX components. We know a lot of you have come up with amazing designs for our components and wanted to enable a platform to show these off and help the community. Seeing the tremendous support you guys give to each other every day on our forums and code library, I am confident you will take up on the initiative so we can build up a useful new resource...
    July 24, 2008