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  • 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
  • Web

    Using ValueConverter to edit Slider's TickTemplate

    RadSlider for Silverlight has a neat functionality that allows you to display tick marks along the track. But what if you are not pleased with the current design of the ticks? Of course you can completely change the look of a tick mark. Let’s say that instead of bluish rectangles, you want your ticks to be ellipses, or triangles maybe. This is easily achieved by setting the TickTemplate property. <telerik:RadSlider TickPlacement="BottomRight" TickFrequency="1" Maximum="10">       <telerik:RadSlider.TickTemplate>             <DataTemplate>                   <Grid>                        ...
  • Web

    Adding Mouse Wheel support in Silverlight. The easy way.

    One of the best uses of our Routed Event extension is implementing missing system events in Silverlight, such as MouseWheel and RightButtonUp/Down. The API we provide is the same as WPF, so when Silverlight eventually gets support for those events, most probably you will not have to change much. Other good thing is that you do not need to write any JavaScript, or to know what's going on beneath. The bad thing is that you will have to enable the windowless mode of the Silverlight plug-in, which will slightly decrease the performance of your application. To attach a Routed Event handler for the MouseWheel event on a...