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  • Release

    Telerik CAB Enabling Kit Beta1 Available

    Hi All, As this is my first post in the Telerik Blogs I will take the opportunity to introduce myself - my name is Iordan Pavlov, I’m the lead developer of the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit (TCEK for short). As of today I will be posting interesting news and tips on the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit. For those of you that can’t wait to get their hands on the first TCEK beta bits, I am glad to inform you that Beta1 is available for immediate download. We hope you will like TCEK and find it useful. You should also have in mind...
    August 23, 2007
  • Productivity Testing

    ASP.NET Web Control Performance Test in Selenium

    Since Selenium has been designed as a browser-oriented tool, load/performance tests definitely aren’t among its strong points. With the help of Selenium Remote Control  one can make precise performance test in his/her preferred language (executing number of opening page steps for example and calculating the average time), but I will limit this post in a really simple example test based entirely on Selenium Core. I’ve used RadGrid as a complex Web Control to check whether its execution time exceeds over an accepted period. What the Selenium Core test needs is just a result available for verification. So adding the ...
    August 20, 2007
  • Release

    Q2 skinning

    I thought I should drop a line to let you know about our plans for changes in the common skins of the Asp.Net product line. For the upcoming Q2 release this September we are planning to refresh the default look of our controls, discontinue development of two common skins, and add two new common skins in their place. Default Skin Refreshed The current default skin (the look of the components when you drop them from the toolbox; browse a preview of all current common skins here) has served well, but the time has come for a fresher look. While we wanted...
    August 15, 2007
  • Web

    XhtmlPage: What does it do?

    Have you ever been working with the Telerik Quickstart examples and wondered why all of the demo pages inherit from XhtmlPage instead of System.Web.UI.Page? Even if you guess that this custom base page somehow ensures that all rendered demo pages are XHTML valid, have you ever wondered how the base page manages to deliver that functionality? In this post, we’ll take a close look at the XhtmlPage class and see what it’s doing to deliver easy XHTML validity. The lessons learned from this class can easily be applied to your own custom page classes and used to make your web...
    August 14, 2007
  • Productivity Testing

    Pressing keys simulation in Selenium, RadInput on fire

    Have you thought whether it’s easy to automate tests, simulating key pressing?  How is this handled in a browser-oriented tool like Selenium? Fortunately Selenium provides API for keyDown/Up and keyPress as well as a command to fire any event, which triggers correspondingly “on”-handler (of course - “fireEvent”). On the other hand the “type” command just sets the value of an input field, so that one can set new value of the input element without the need to fire any event. What if we need to see how a control behaves in case of some specific user input, though? An input ...
    August 12, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    ASP.NET AJAX Inheritance Gotcha

    Hello, my name is Manol Donev and I'm part of the ASP.NET team responsible for the development and maintenance of our grid, ajax, calendar, input, and chart components. With time ticking away and the September release date closing down I can assure you there is a lot going on here at the moment -- gradually orienting our ASP.NET product line towards ASP.NET AJAX is by far our main focus of course and probably you will find some of the ASP.NET AJAX tips and tricks I'll be writing about useful in your own projects as well. OK, this one does not qualify exactly...
    August 09, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Excel-like filtering with RadGrid, RadMenu and RadAjax

    Hi everyone,We decided to start series of blog posts targeting interesting examples which can be easily implemented with RadControls. These short posts will be accompanied by flash movies (they will start in new window when you click the image at the bottom of the message) which outline the main parts of the demos. That is where the name of blog comes from - Telerik corporation presents. We hope you will enjoy the reading and do not spare your ideas about videos you would like to see here - who knows, may be you can become the producer/director of the next movie from the series :)Now up to...
    August 07, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadEditor for MOSS updated

    We have just updated our RadEditor for MOSS with a new build. You can get it from the usual place. Visit http://www.telerik.com/products/sharepoint/radeditor.aspx for more information. The new version (4.31) has a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. The most important new feature in my opinion is the addition of a base editor class, which you can use in your own custom MOSS solutions. The new class (MOSSRadEditor) is available only in the full-featured version of the RadEditor for MOSS. It allows you to easily add an instance of RadEditor, which will have the MOSS specific features like the ability to use MOSS asset...
    August 03, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    ASP.NET AJAX Tips and Tricks

    By default ASP.NET AJAX will load and render your controls even if they do not need to be updated. Example:In this case the Panel marked as "Slow loading area" will be updated by default even on DropDownList1 selected index changed. What can we do to prevent this? You can set Panel1.Visible to true/false according to the current ajax request. Example: Enjoy! PS: Running example can be found here....
    August 02, 2007
  • Release

    Finally .. Shared TimeView for all of you TimePicker lovers!

    As many of you have waited patiently for this feature, I decided to drop a few words since it has already been implemented. We will introduce it officially with the next quarterly release in September. Of course anyone who needs this badly can open a support ticket and request internal build! Well here it is - basically the drill is the same as with the SharedCalendar: Drop a TimeView control on the page