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The mythic r.a.d.grid
Ever since the first build of r.a.d.grid I've had a feeling that there's something "divine" about it:)It seems that I was right. After a Google search I found out that our beloved ASP.NET grid control has the same name (without the dots) as one of the characters in ancient Norse mythology. Apart from the initial surprise that r.a.d.grid is female, I finally have unquestionable information regarding r.a.d.grid's divine nature:http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/norse-mythology.php?deity=RADGRIDWho could argue that there's a better grid than one with divine origins?:)...October 03, 2005 -
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A big day for Bulgarian football fans
The last few years have been really disappointing for Bulgarian football fans as none of our teams passed the first round of the UEFA cup and the Champions League. Sometimes it was a matter of luck, sometimes it was a matter of horrible play but the end result was the same year after year - Bulgarian participation ended very early. Yesterday everything changed - 3 out of 4 Bulgarian teams made it to the UEFA groups after 3 1:0 epic wins. It could have been four wins, but Lokomotiv Plovdiv lost 2:1 to Bolton. The English team was trailing the whole game...September 30, 2005 -
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Replacing the default Community Server blog editor
I was asked to investigate the possibility of replacing the default FreeTextBox editor on our Community Server with a more sophisticated and easy-to-use editor. I took the challenge and it turned to be an easy one. The whole process took me about an hour - half for reading through the documentation and half for writing the code itself. Lucky for me Community Server uses a provider model, similar to the one in DotNetNuke, that makes it easy for users to change the text editor they wish to use. The only requirement is that the new editor has an appropriate wrapper...September 27, 2005 -
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It's time to replace FreeTextBox with r.a.d.editor in the Community Server blog engine
Now that I entered the blogosphere, I am finding out that apart from the time spent writing the content of a blog entry, you often have to spend time to properly format the content, include code, links, images and so on. In all internal applications we are using r.a.d.editor and I've been having some real issues with the FreeTextBox control that comes with Community Server by default. Some of the things I have struggled with:- table management- link management- <P>s and <BR>s- image management (I don't like going into HTML view to add an image)- absence of a spellchecker (FreeTextBox...September 26, 2005 -
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And the winner is....
Today we finally drew the lucky winner of the Trivia Game Show that was held at the telerik booth during the Expo hours at PDC 2005 in Los Angeles. The winner of the top prize - the very desirable XBOX 360 - is Laijun Xie with Thomson Financial. We have pre-ordered the XBOX 360 on Amazon and the console should arrive via courier somewhere in December, perhaps just in time for Xmas:) Coming to think of it, I should also ask Santa for one. I am still playing Super Mario Bros on my Nintendo 1988 box but the XBOX 360 looks like a good...September 25, 2005 -
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Atlas and strong typing
I have just returned from Microsoft PDC 2005, and I must say that it was marvelous. Being there was worth every miserable second on those flights :). The hottest thing for me was the new AJAX framework for ASP.NET -- Atlas. Shanku Niyogi gave an overview session on Atlas that covered the potential uses of the framework. Nikhil Kothari continued with a session on building Atlas components with server and client side examples. Nikhil has posted an overview of the framework architecture on his blog. You can download the slides of Shanku's presentation here, and Nikhil's -- here. I found it a bit odd at first that some...September 20, 2005 -
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Does your build talk to you?
We have a fairly automated builds at telerik. You keep everything in VSS, and the moment you need a build, you just check-in your latest changes and launch the build script. The build runs on our integration machine and produces the final deliverables. Now the build might take some time for a few of the products (I wish VSS was not so darn slow!). I get the build results and the log of the NAnt scripts by email, but sometimes that is not fast enough. The answer to my problems came when I switched to Miranda as my IM client. Miranda has a lovely...September 09, 2005 -
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Poor man's ASP.NET testing
Sometimes you have a simple page with some web controls on it. You would like to have a simple way to make sure that the text of a status message is exactly the one you expect. Well, it turns out that the .NET class library has a real gem that can help you. The System.Net.WebClient class helps you request pages, post data, upload files with a simple interface. Getting the page contents is easy: [Test]public void GetPage(){ WebClient client = new WebClient(); using (Stream dataStream = client.OpenRead(pageAddress)) { XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument(); document.Load(dataStream); XmlNode label = document.SelectSingleNode("//label[@id='nameLabel']"); Assert.AreEqual("Name:", label.InnerText); }} I have taken some extra care to return valid XML,...August 25, 2005 -
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telerik at PDC
Guess what, seems like we will be making our debut at an industry event. Up until now we have only been visitors at VS Live, ASP Connections, TechEd, etc. but as a PDC sponsor we decided that it's time we be amongst exhibitors. It's a great opportunity for us to meet with all telerik customers and partners. If you are attending PDC, make sure you stop by booth #423. We'd love to meet you guys and break out of the "virtual" relationship we have with most of you. We've also got some nice surprises for those of you who stop by:)...August 17, 2005 -
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r.a.d.controls Q3 released!
It's a great pleasure to announce the availability of r.a.d.controls Q3. You can read the full press release at: http://www.telerik.com/Default.aspx?PageId=1861&b21ActiveNewsId=YeA&b21CategoryId=ddu. Big thanks to everyone who contributed with ideas and reported problems. Overall, this was a great release. We managed to include everything we initially planned for in terms of new features and enhancements, we managed to test all products extensively, documentation was improved significantly, and last but not least, we were on time. The only thing that did not go as planned was the releases of the two brand new products r.a.d.callback (http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.callback) and r.a.d.dock (http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.dock) which were not released with Q3. The new docking control and the...August 14, 2005
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