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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    How To Override Styles in a RadControl for ASP.NET AJAX' Embedded Skin

    In the era of the "classic" RadControls for ASP.NET modifying a skin required opening ~ / RadControls / [ControlName] / Skins / [SkinName] / styles.css and making the necessary changes. The new RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as "Prometheus") by default use skins, which are embedded in the assembly. This simplifies deployment but sacrifices customization. Or does it? Actually, making a change to an embedded skin of a RadControl for ASP.NET AJAX is quite easy, given that one keeps in mind a couple of notable things. Namely: (1) Since the embedded skin cannot be modified, the custom styles need to be placed elsewhere. For example ...
    June 17, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Introducing: the telePhone

    After digging around in Telerik's old Visual Source-Safe server, I found a long-forgotten prototype of a RadMenu skin. I felt the urge to disclose it to you, and hope that you will like it. the telePhone prototype On second thought, this initial draft looks good enough, so we might switch to hardware production. Don't be evil, we were first! Maybe we could even go 3G... Ok now, getting serious - you could use this sort of menu for navigating when there is a large hierarchy in the site navigation (or, to be more specific, a hierarchy that has a wide tree). Currently, no...
    June 13, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax and IronPython

    We recently received a request if RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax support IronPython and the answer is “yes”. Yesterday I tested our latest SP1 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX against the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) and it seems there are no problems. Here are some screenshots how the RadComboBox control gets updated by RadAjaxManager – design and run-time:   Design-time: Run-time:  
    June 06, 2008
  • Web

    The difference between ID, ClientID and UniqueID

    I this post I will try to explain the difference between those three commonly used properties. Each property is described in a separate section. Attached you can find a sample web site as well as two screenshots visually depicting the difference between the ID, ClientID and UniqueID properties. The ID property is used to assign an identifier to an ASP.NET server control which can be later used to access that control. You can use either the field generated in the codebehind or pass the value of the ID property to the FindControl method. There is a catch though - the ID property is...
    June 06, 2008
  • Web

    Can I create a bracket(tournament) with RadTreeView for Silverlight 2?

    The powerful Control Template and Styling mechanism of the forthcoming RadTreeView for Silverlight 2 will allow you to easily create a "bracket" view. The forthcoming CTP release of RadControls for Silverlight 2 (that will be live as soon as Microsoft launches the official Silverlight 2 Beta 2) will feature such an example in the QSF section. The screen-shot below gives you a short preview of what the lookless RadTreeView is all about. Another example that will be demonstrated within the QSF section is a panelbar view of the tree control. Along with its advanced layout mechanism RadTreeView harnesses the power of content-driven controls....