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    Search Engine Optimized (SEO) grid paging

    First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to all US readers! I guess the holiday is a good occasion to announce a new feature we added to our ASP.NET grid control - Search Engine Optimized paging is finally ready. The grid will handle automatically crawlers and a special pager will be initialized in this case. The good news are the this feature can be turned on/off explicitly using PagerStyle.EnableSEOPaging and page indexes will be persisted via query strings even in multiple grids on the same page. Live example can be found @ http://betas.telerik.com/examples/seopaging/Cheers,Vlad ...
    by Vladimir Enchev
    November 23, 2006
  • Release

    r.a.d.controls for WinForms SP1 released

    My team released the first Service Pack for the Windows Forms UI controls several hours ago. I wouldn't be blogging about a Service Pack if it weren’t for some major improvements we made over the last few weeks. Traditionally we’ve shied away from adding new capabilities in Service Packs but rules are there to be broken and you will be seeing lots of new stuff and improvements with every SP, minor or major telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms release. The highlight of the SP1 additions is the significantly improved design-time experience. The changes were driven by the feedback we have received from...
    by Hristo Kosev
    November 22, 2006
  • Productivity Debugging

    HACK: debug modifications to the ASP.NET session

    Today I had some strange experience. I have been hunting a strange bug that caused something to be placed in the ASP.NET session at a time that it was not supposed to be.  My biggest problem was finding out who was putting an object in the session and what that object actually contained. I already knew that the HttpSessionState instance was being stored in the current HttpContext's Items collection (thanks to Mr. Lutz Roeder, of course), and my initial plan was to inherit from HttpSessionState and intercept the calls made to methods like Add, Remove, etc.  Alas, HttpSessionState is marked as...
    rahnev by Stefan Rahnev
    November 22, 2006
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Creating Skinnable Checkboxes

    It is a widely known fact, that form controls, and especially comboboxes, checkboxes and radiobuttons are not that flexible as the other html elements and are hardly susceptible to css skinning. Here is a simple client-side solution for checkbox skinning. The tutorial is divided into four chapters, supplied with code listings, and explaining the different parts of the control – xhtml markup, css classes, javascript, checkbox states and more. In the beginning of each chapter there is a list of reference files. Before starting, you may download the script from here.1. Considering the (X)HTML Markup Reference files: • CheckBox.html Prior to the W3C recommendations for xhtml compliance, semantics,...
    rahnev by Stefan Rahnev
    November 20, 2006
  • Desktop WinForms WPF

    r.a.d.controls for WinForms in WPF

    As most of you may already know, .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released. Personally, I think WPF is great. I can't wait to see the final versions of Expression Interactive Designer and VS 2005 extensions for .NET 3.0. You can download it, check it, and admire its potential. Once the admiration starts fading away, you may ask yourself "now what?". You may start writing applications from scratch, you may start migrating existing WinForms applications, or you may decide to wait for the final versions of Expression Interactive Designer and Visual Studio Orcas. You may even decide to wait till Windows...
    by Hristo Kosev
    November 10, 2006
  • Desktop WinForms

    r.a.d.controls for WinForms and Composite UI Application Block

    I have to admit that I get scared each time I read terms like "loosely coupled", "enterprise", "architectural framework" and so on at one place.Even so, my colleagues and I had to suppress our fear and test our WinForms controls with the the Composite UI Application Block framework (you can find more info about it here).I was pleasantly surprised that everything went very smoothly and well. The CAB framework does exactly what it claims - it provides an easy way for building complex UIs based on separate blocks / "smart parts". I recommend it to everyone who embraces the Smart...
    by Hristo Kosev
    November 09, 2006
  • Desktop WinForms

    First r.a.d.controls for WinForms, first Reporting CTP, first snow, everything went according to plan :)

    There's a well known quote (I think by Mark Twain) saying:The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. I can paraphrase and say something like this:The "hottest" summer releases (in case you haven't missed MSDN Magazine this June) we've made so far will happen this winter. Ok, it's still fall but here in Sofia the first snow and the low temperatures made me feel like it's winter. Now r.a.d.controls for WinForms Q3 is finally live. Thanks to all who have sent us their feedback. We made some fixes, added a few more examples and new controls - ListBox, ShapedForm and SplitButton. Each...
    by Hristo Kosev
    November 03, 2006
  • People

    Vlad's first post

    Hi Folks, My name is Vladimir Enchev and some of you may already know me from telerik forums. I am part of team1 @ telerik and I’ll try to inform you regularly about all cool things related to r.a.d.ajax, r.a.d.grid, etc. and of course some other hot stuff about my daily tasks. Ok :-) .. so my first top secret confidential info is that the next version of r.a.d.grid will support some really useful client-side operations such as “Delete”. Here is a link with small online demo: http://betas.telerik.com/examples/clientdelete/  ... and here is the code: <radG:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" DataSourceID="SessionDataSource1"AllowAutomaticDeletes="True" runat="server">  <MasterTableView DataKeyNames="ProductID">     <Columns>       <radG:GridClientDeleteColumn ConfirmText="Are you sure?" />     </Columns>  ...
    by Vladimir Enchev
    November 03, 2006
  • People

    The WPF Conversion contest. My personal favorite is missing.

    The conversion contest announced some months ago by Mike Swanson ended a few days ago: http://wpf.netfx3.com/content/ConversionContest.aspx It's a pity that none of the contestants has written a Flash (SWF) to XAML converter so far. Although to me, it looks like a hard job to do I think soon there'll be some third party tools which will successfully convert some simple flash files to XAML. I found a good tool by Kinesis Software which decompiles SWF to RVML. The task gets simplified and now someone should write an extension which converts RVML to XAML. As easy as that :) Btw I've got another favorite missing - Maya to...
    by Hristo Kosev
    October 30, 2006
  • Release

    MS AJAX Beta1 - ClientScript is dead, long live ScriptManager

    As some of us have found the latest installment of MS AJAX is not backwards compatible. Shortly after ScottGu’s official statement our QA team reported that none of our controls worked with MS AJAX Beta 1. That is really bad news if you happen to claim to be the first ASP.NET component vendor with official ATLAS support. This called for a desperate debugging session which happens to be what I and Hristo Deshev like the most :). So I downloaded and installed the latest version (kudos to Microsoft for the painless install). I created an “Ajax enabled web site” and wired up r.a.d.input....
    rahnev by Stefan Rahnev
    October 23, 2006
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