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    RadGrid Client Data Binding And ADO.Net DataServices example

    With the release of the .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta more and more people have started to ask us if the RadGrid for ASP.NET Ajax supports binding to ADO.Net DataServices. And what is the answer, you may have asked yourself? Yes it does! To demonstrate this I have updated one of  Vlad's well-known client data binding examples. As you may notice there are only a few changes to the code, mostly the parts where the web service calls are concerned.   Download the example.
    June 27, 2008
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    Optimization Tips: Optimizing Custom Skins

    Welcome back to my ongoing series on optimizing the Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. For those that are counting, this is the fifth installment in the series, so if you've missed the first four parts I suggest you go back and read them now. This article builds on some of the concepts we've covered previously, so a sound understanding of the earlier concepts is a plus. And before you get confused, you won't find the other installments on blogs.telerik.com. Up to now, this series has been running on my popular Telerik Watch blog, but going forward all installments will be...
    June 25, 2008
  • Web

    Formatting RadChart Labels

    Hi everyone, My name is Vesselin Georgiev and I am a technical consultant here at Telerik. This is my first blog post and it is dedicated to labels in RadChart. By default RadChart will display the value corresponding to the bar (point, slice) as a label.  But RadChart allows you to control the label content. This is possible thanks to the DefaultLabelValue property, which has been around for quite some time now. You can use several “special words” in this property -- "#Y", "#X", “#%”, “#SUM”, “#STSUM”, “#SERIES”, “#ITEM”. They are all listed in the dedicated help topic . This is all good, but...
    June 20, 2008
  • Web

    Opera 9.5 - Love at First Sight

    The new Opera 9.5, released about a week ago, quite easily established itself as my default "home" browser. It is sooooo much faster than Firefox and Internet Explorer, especially when it comes to heavy web applications such as Gmail and Facebook (and doesn't hang either). And what's more, the Opera guys finally made the Alt + D keyboard shortcut focus the address bar as is in the other two browsers (stretching out to reach F8 was rather inconvenient. Happiness is in the small things, you know... :-) ). Opera 9.5 also includes DragonFly, which is the more powerful successor of the browser's...
    June 20, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Uploading Multiple Files with RadUpload

    Hello Everyone, my name is Rosi and I am a developer on the ASP.NET navigation controls team. This is my first blog post and I will be talking about the RadUpload component.  Many customers have asked how to upload multiple files with it. Unfortunately RadUpload does not yet support this functionality out of the box, but I will show you how to work-around this limitation. The trick is uploading one  .zip file and extracting it on the server.  To achieve this we will need a little help from a third party library.  Such libraries are  DotNetZip and SharpZipLib which provide a convenient API to manipulate .zip files.  For the purposes of this blog post...
    June 19, 2008