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Making ASP.NET XHTML 1.1 compliant
As you may know, all components from the r.a.d.controls suite render XHTML 1.1 compliant output. We wanted to promote it in a way that all users can click a button in our online examples and see for themselves that everything validates perfectly. W3C provides an online validation service (http://validator.w3.org) so it should not be that hard. Unfortunately ASP.NET 1.x complies with *NO* HTML standard ever approved by W3C. ASP.NET 2.0 was first XHTML 1.1 compliant, but then in the official release Microsoft fell back to XHTML 1.0 transitional which is less restrictive. I made a couple of Google searches and found other people...December 09, 2005 -
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r.a.d.controls and support for DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke 4.0 was officially released about a month ago, giving a major revamp to the project, now specifically designed for .NET 2.0 and offering Visual Studio 2005 support. Although there were some inevitable glitches, in my opinion DNN 4.0 is a solid release. Porting the existing r.a.d.controls for DNN to 4.0 proved to be a straightforward task. Almost all our DNN controls compiled right away after simply replacing the old .NET 1.1 assemblies with the 2.0 ones (e.g. RadEditor.dll -> RadEditor.NET2.dll). The main task was to simplify the new distributions by taking advantage of the new functionality offered by .NET 2.0. All skinobjects and...December 06, 2005 -
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Test-driving Windows shell scripts with Windows Scripting Host
I was creating a small banner rotation script yesterday. It needed to be tiny, lightweight and easy to deploy, so I chose to do it in JScript as it is available on every Windows machine. I usually do small automation projects in Ruby, but the machine that has to run the script does not have Ruby installed. I am a closure freak, so I went for JScript (VBScript does not have closures).The script has to select a random subfolder from the source location and copy all its files to the destination. I don't have much experience with Windows Scripting Host's (WSH)...December 01, 2005 -
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The life and death of r.a.d.designer
After three years of good service, r.a.d.designer will be discontinued. As of r.a.d.controls Q4 2005 SP1 next week, the product will no longer be part of the ASP.NET suite. Wondering why we decided to do it? A bit of history... r.a.d.designer was telerik's third product after r.a.d.editor and r.a.d.menu. It was born out of an experimental project and it's initial goal was very different from what it is today - it had to be a tool that allows you to put stuff in containers and move them around. It was supposed to be very close to what r.a.d.dock does. Back in time...November 30, 2005 -
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telerik and Mono
It all started at Microsoft PDC this year. We met Miguel de Icaza at our booth, and we talked about running our products under Mono. I had previously done some tests under my Linux machine at home, and it turned out that our obfuscated assemblies broke the Mono CLR. Yes, that means crashes and abnormal process terminations. Miguel was really kind and offered his help. He was able to determine that our obfuscator (Xenocode) was generating invalid IL instructions in order to break possible decompilations. Unfortunately that broke Mono too. In fact it was not only Mono -- we had a lot of...November 29, 2005 -
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r.a.d.controls Q4 2005 is out!
The Q4 release finally went live last Friday! It was our hardest, but also our best release so far. We added 5 new controls to the suite (upload, input, calendar, window, toolbar), released major updates for r.a.d.grid and r.a.d.combobox, extended the in-built AJAX support of most products, and on top of that, we were on the front line with full support for Visual Studio 2005. Here's a link to the complete news release: http://www.telerik.com/Default.aspx?PageId=1861&b21ActiveNewsId=bBj&b21CategoryId=drh I am particularly thrilled by r.a.d.grid 3.0. and r.a.d.window. The latter offers some unique capabilities and is a great addition to the r.a.d.controls suite as it allows developers to easily build applications with...November 22, 2005 -
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The AJAX hysteria
I got really aggravated by an article I read today and more specifically from the statement "before AJAX". It kind of gave the impression that they were not talking about an acronym but rather an important period in human history (e.g. "Before the fall of Communism") It seems to me that everywhere, everyone is talking about AJAX and it's becoming ridiculous. In just 7-8 months the web got cluttered with all kinds of AJAX addicts, Evangelists, "leaders" and people claiming they were doing AJAX even before XmlHttp was in the browser. It's almost like the infamous Web 2.0... Everyone talks about it, but no one knows exactly what it is. Am...November 11, 2005 -
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www.asp.net has a new design
A couple of days ago the good ole www.asp.net site got a facelift. I didn't find much new stuff, but the design is very funky. I guess everyone was waiting to see something fresh and the VS 2005 official release seemed like a good time to roll out an update (the site's running .NET 2.0 so it's kind of a showcase:).I don't know whether anyone else is experiencing the same behavior, but it seems to me that the site simply hangs for a few seconds when you load a page with a lot of content (let's say the home page for the...November 09, 2005 -
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Building your own VS2005-compatible NUnit distribution
Yesterday I blogged about two specific problems with VS2005 that have been driving me nuts this week. Now I think I found a solution to one of them: the crashes caused when running your tests from TestDriven.NET's menu. I remembered reading on the nunit-users mailing list (or was it nunit-developer?) that NUnit does not quite support .NET 2.0 at 100% yet. People have been getting the source from the CVS repository and have been building their own versions of the library, targeted at a specific .NET 2 framework version since the betas. I decided to try and do that myself. First I got the...November 05, 2005 -
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VS2005 RTM is buggy!
I thought I was the only one. I thought it was just me and that I was doing something wrong or extraordinary. I shut up. Now the genie is out of the bottle. First it was Roy Osherove's frustration with VS2005. Now, my colleague and friend Atanas forwarded Ayende Rahein's complaints and his rant about VS2005 getting in the way of TDD. minimsft has collected a lot of other rants about all the defects that have long been known and have not been fixed for the final version. I have two problems with VS2005: Web site projects compiles are sloooow. The r.a.d.controls suite installer packs a...November 05, 2005
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