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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... -
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... -
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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> ... -
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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... -
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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.... -
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Installing r.a.d.controls on Vista and IIS7
Vista must be getting popular these days! We've been hit with some support requests that basically sounded like "Why don't your installers create virtual folders on IIS7 under Vista?". Our installers run fine and copy all needed files, but our virtual directory creation custom task seems to have some problems with IIS7. We are yet to throw in some efforts and research the issue in greater detail, but I assume we just have to look into the new "official" way to create virtual folders and just add support for it. Until that time, you can use the IIS6 compatibility mode. This...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
r.a.d.ajax and web services
My team and I have been working hard to bring you the cool web services functionality that shipped with r.a.d.ajax in Q3 a week ago. And now, when the goodies are out in the open, people are beginning to explore the new features and looking for suitable ways to use them. I have been reading some of the initial support tickets we received about the web services support in r.a.d.ajax and it seems that quite a few people would appreciate some guidance with this somewhat advanced feature of the product. This blog post is meant to get you guys started. Scared... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Creating ASP.NET AJAX client-side classes
Does that subject looks lame or what! I'm trying to stop using the “Atlas” name -- it's ASP.NET AJAX now, and getting used to the new name is a major pain in the backside. Even though the official name Jessie-James-Garett-certified name is Ajax (note the capitalization), Microsoft chose AJAX. Anyway, I hope I'll get used to it eventually. So, how do you create a class in a language that has a classless object model? Why would you want to do that in the first place? Prototype-based object oriented programming is way more powerful than your grandma's classes that you are used... -
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How to close Netscape 8.1.2.0 with JavaScript
Hi there. I am still kicking. It has been some time since my last post as most of my efforts were concentrated on the quarterly release (which is a lame excuse). Anyway here is an interesting thing that I tackled a minute ago:The following script closes immediately the latest installment of Netscape:<html><body> <div id="div1"> <div id="div2"> </div> </div> <button onclick="return CloseNetscapeNow()">Close Netscape</button> <script type="text/javascript"> function CloseNetscapeNow() { var div1 = document.getElementById("div1"); var div2 = document.getElementById("div2"); div1.appendChild(div2); } </script></body></html>Just click the button and enjoy. It turns out that the appendChild method does not work very well when you try to add... -
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My first public speaking!
Monday and Tuesday have been very exciting for me! Rumen already mentioned the DevReach conference: I was not only an attendee -- this was my first speaking experience! My talk was about building and testing Atlas components, so that you actually get a chance succeeding at a large JavaScript development project. Maybe I am getting a bit arogant when it comes down to client scripting, but I am starting to believe that after working for telerik for 2.5 years, I think I have seen it all. We maintain a huge JavaScript code base and our only chance of keeping our sanity was to naturally move to writing...
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