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  • Productivity Reporting

    UI Automation Support in RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2008

    The new release of RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight is out with a couple of new controls and tons of improvements in the old components. In case you’ve missed, the new demos are uploaded and available here. You may need to delete your browser cache if you still don’t see the new cool home page:     Along with the other improvements, the UI Automation support in Silverlight controls suite is greatly enhanced. Now the following components (I’ve ordered them alphabetically) officially support UI Automation: - ComboBox/ComboBoxItem - Expander - Menu/MenuItem - NumericUpDown - PanelBar/PanelBarItem - ProgressBar - Slider...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Testing RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax with Watir – How easy it is

    Today was my first attempt at writing tests for RadControls with Watir and was surprised how easy it is. I found over the internet a good article on how to test ASP.NET applications using Watir and also referred to the Hristo Deshev’s blog post about Automating Complex JavaScript-rich Controls with Watir. If you use the approach described in it and create a watir_telerik_extensions.rb file, you will be able to create tests very quickly. See below a few tests about RadMenu, RadComboBox and RadTreeView which I have created in minutes: 1. This is a RadComboBox test which opens the drop down ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    IE7 user agent bug

    Did you know that if your user agent string is more than 260 characters in length then your user agent string suddenly and almost magically becomes “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)”. I've just realized that I have exactly the same problem: Be extra careful!...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    The new telerik.com is LIVE! And it runs on Sitefinity!

    Even though we did not consciously schedule our Q3 release to occur during the US presidential election week, we now see the similarities between the election and our release.  Just as the election is of historical significance to the US people, so too is our Q3 release for us.  We managed to push our biggest release in time filled with major improvements and new additions and refinements across all existing product lines,  an official release of our Silverlight controls, 3 major new controls for WPF (gauge, chart and scheduler) and, last but not least, the first release of our newly acquired OpenAccess ORM product. But...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Only the Cool People Subscribe to Us!

    3/4 of the Telerik Evangelism crew (Todd, Gabe, & John) In case you missed Todd's announcement, Telerik welcomed two new evangelists back in September. Many of you have met (or maybe already knew) John and Gabe at the many conferences we've been attending lately. Last month we were at DevReach in Bulgaria and PDC in Los Angeles, and next week we'll be at DevConnections in Las Vegas. During PDC Todd recorded a nice introduction video for all of us in an episode of Telerik Watch Minute (I'm the goofy guy in the Howdy shirt). But whether you've met John and Gabe or not, how many of you...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    The New Telerik.com

    For the past several months, we've been rebuilding & redesigning the Telerik.com web site.  Our existing web site had served us very well, but it was beginning to show some age.  We were anxious to utilize some of the newer techniques & technologies available to us and, in the end, hopefully offer a better experience to our customers. Telerik.com is a big a web site and rebuilding it wasn't a trivial task.  Not only does Telerik.com get a lot of traffic, but it also contains a TON of content (product information, demos, support articles, forum posts, etc.).  To support this task we needed a...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    ASP.NET Ajax Controls and jQuery

    .csharpcode { overflow:auto; } .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } As you probably know by know the Q3 2008 release is out. In this release we included the jQuery JavaScript library in our scripts. For now only RadTreeView and RadScheduler benefit from it but we plan deeper jQuery integration in the future. In this blog post I will show you how to use the built-in jQuery file in your projects. Including jQuery If you have RadScheduler or RadTreeView in your page jQuery is already included so you can skip to the next paragraph. If not - read ahead. Add a ScriptReference pointing to Core.js as we use a slightly customized version of jQuery which...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET AJAX

    ASP.NET Ajax Controls in ASP.NET MVC

    The Q3 2008 release is now out and I am glad to inform you that RadScriptManager provides support for ASP.NET MVC view and master pages. What this means is that RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax can be used in ASP.NET MVC. We have tested with the ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 release. .csharpcode { overflow:auto; } .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } Using RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax in ASP.NET MVC View Pages 1. Add an instance of RadScriptManager to your view page (or master page). Make sure the required HTTP handlers are properly registered (can be done from the smart tag in design time). 2. Add a control to your view page or master page. The following...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Small Businesses, Meet BizSpark

    About a year ago, Microsoft launched a cool new program called DreamSpark to help students get started learning to use Microsoft development technologies. DreamSpark allows students to access a wide range of development software from a secure site, allowing them download fully-licensed products like Visual Studio 2008 Professional, SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition, Windows Server 2008, and XNA Game Studio 2.0, among others. I have always thought this was a cool initiative on Microsoft's part to help those developers who don't have the financial means to gain access to these products themselves. Well, it seems Microsoft is at it again. Today S....
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadControls for WinForms in Telerik Trainer

    Recently there was a question posted on the Telerik forums asking if there were plans to include some Telerik Trainer videos for the RadControls for WinForms.  The timing of this question was great since there was already a video being produced on this very topic.  If you haven't experienced the Telerik Trainer, you are missing out.  It presents video content on a given topic with the ability to jump to any part of that video via the Table of Contents.  Additionally, when there is code being presented as part of the video the Telerik Trainer allows you open the code for...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read