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    Another year, another 10 awards from asp.netPRO Magazine

    Just found out (from Telerik's homepage:) that we have done pretty well in this year's asp.netPRO Reader's Choice Awards - 10 awards overall, one in each category in which we participated. Even though there's nothing more gratifying than a demanding, happy customer, the fact that we've collected 2 dozen asp.netPRO awards in the last 3 years is a reason to open up a bottle of champagne. I would like to thank all of you who voted for us! Thank you so much! We appreciate every single effort you guys make - from voting in the annual magazine awards, to submitting a bug or...
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Introduction to ASP.NET MVC – slides and demo project

    I had a presentation last week at MS DevDays Bulgaria and I thought I’d share it with you. I was very excited and somewhat nervous - this was my first presentation ever. Nervousness aside, the feeling cannot be compared to anything else – I was glad there are so much people out there who are curious about the topic I’m interested in. It’s a kind of a win-win situation, where the attendees learn something new or see the things from another person’s point of view and the presenter learns even more on the topic from the questions the audience asks. Back to the...
    April 30, 2008
  • Web

    History Enabled Script Manager and Silverlight

    A.k.a Deep Linking in Silverlight Undoubtedly Silverlight offers a myriad of useful features that can enhance the user and development experience – Binding, Multithreading, Layout System, Animations to name a few. But the fact that it is in essence a browser plug-in leads to certain limitations or “hurdles” for the user experience. Deep Linking? Why? One such thing is the lack of Deep Linking, i.e. the browser’s address bar contains the starting page for the application but any change in its state is not reflected in the address. Some people argue that there is difference between Web Applications and Web Pages and while the...
    April 30, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadEditor... on msdn2.microsoft.com

    It has been some time this was in the making... and as of the beginning of this week RadEditor is the editor one uses to submit community content in MSDN. Here is a hasty screenshot I made for you: To my best knowledge, this is the fifth Microsoft team that adopts the RadEditor, yet I believe it is the first team to use it on a public Microsoft site (besides, such an important one). The other teams using the editor are doing internal MS content, and since I have not explicitly asked for permission to list their names here, I will...
    April 29, 2008
  • Release

    The new Reporting designer - New user experience for everyone

    Have you ever been addicted to something? Well I am now in the Q1 2008 Telerik Reporting Designer. The new state of the art design surface, available in Visual Studio, will definitely grab you from the very beginning. It will bring new user experience to all of you who like your reports to look better then just a list of records, items and numbers. But let me start from the beginning. The graph paper background of the designer is specially chosen to assist you in designing your layout and gives you an excellent visual presentation of what your report will look...
    April 29, 2008
  • Release

    New online resources for the past four weeks (03/17/2008 - 04/11/2008)

    Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls/WinForm controls:  ASP.NET RadGrid Code library entries Automatic data-editing operations with LinqDataSource control: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bcmcht.aspx Persist groups expanded state on rebind: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bcmcgm.aspx Client-side calculations (reflected in RadGrid's command item) for selected rows: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bchtcg.aspx Help topics get_parentRow() and get_parentView() (will become part of the online documentation shortly)
    April 23, 2008
  • Web

    Silverlight 2.0 Custom Scroll Viewer with Mouse Wheel

    In this blog post i will demonstrate how to customize Scroll Viewer and enable the mouse wheel functionality. I would be using the mix08 controls for  silverlight 2.0. they are  free and with open license. Before start please download Mix08 Controls. 1. Extract them and then open MixControls, after that see generic.xaml file, and open it. Find and copy the ScrollViewer style, it should be something like: .cf { font-family: Courier New; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background: white; } .cl { margin: 0px; } .cln { color: #2b91af; } .cb1 { color: #a31515; } .cb2 { color: blue; } .cb3 { color: red; } .cb4 { color: green; }    <Style x:Key="ScrollBarStyle" TargetType="ScrollBar">           <!-- Any other properties you want to set -->           <Setter Property="Template"> 2. Open your Silverlight project in VS 2008, and go to App.xaml and paste in the <Application.Resources> the style for the scroll viewer....
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    The dark side of static members

    Often we find it easy to create a class with a static event to keep the controls in our web application loosely coupled. The easiest way to make a number of controls interact without “knowing” about each other is to have a static event distributor class. public class EventDistributor {     public static event EventHandler SomethingHappened;     public static void RaiseSomethingHappened(object sender, EventArgs e)     {         if (SomethingHappened != null)         {             SomethingHappened(sender, e);         }     } } Some of the controls raise the events of the distributor… protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { …     EventDistributor.RaiseSomethingHappened(sender, e); … } …and others subscribe to them protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {   ...
    April 18, 2008
  • Desktop WinForms

    Breaking changes in RadGridView for WinForms Q1 2008

    We at Telerik know that you, our clients, do not like breaking changes. With each release we get complaints that something has changed, even when it as small as a change in the name of a single property. We understand why you find them dreadful. More often than not software vendors do not speak of them openly and try to hide them at all costs. Often such changes are not well documented. As a result, a lot of time is spent on getting all issues resolved after the upgrade. We know that you are terrified from this process and prefer...
    April 17, 2008
  • Release

    RadControls for WPF CTP

    This week we are about to release a private CTP of RadControls for WPF. We will be sending the CTP build to all people who have previously requested WPF controls. If you still haven't requested WPF controls from our support or sales folks don't hesitate to drop them a line and we'll send you a build. If you're reading regularly the Telerik blogs may be you haven't missed Vassil's post about the Show Off videos which we prepared for MIX 08. In case you've watched carefully the "Telerik Resort Explorer" video you probably are asking yourself at least a couple of questions: 1) Oh my! Telerik will...
    April 16, 2008