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  • Productivity

    Creating a simple code snippet in Visual Studio 2005 – Part II

    Hi All, This is the second installment of the series "Code snippets in Visual Studio 2005". Well it has been quite a while since I updated my blog. My apologies, I think we all got too wrapped up in developing our new products and preparation of Q1 2006 release to remember to keep writing. However now I (having the time) intend to do just that. So creating a code snippet is a relatively easy task, however I will make a real case to demonstrate the creation process (refresh your mind on the topic here): - First create a text file (with your preferred editor, mine is...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Design

    Telerik skins photoshop sources.

    Thinking how to make your life and our ROI targets easier, we decided it’s a good idea to provide for download the Photoshop sources of our components’ skins. So we sat down and toiled relentlessly to tame the mess of untitled layers into something of actual business value – the result is a section at http://www.telerik.com/skins with free downloads of the Photoshop sources for the most requested telerik skins. Pure design goodness for you to customize and build upon. Remember this section when the time comes to design your next application – this time you can jump start with a ready...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Glassy buttons, interrupted?

    Has the time come to challenge the top place of glassy look in today’s web notion for haute couture? What could possibly act cooler than a glassy button on your web site? Admit it, even if you never had it, at one point or another you secretly craved for one. One of those fat, professional looking glassy buttons that scream out loud style & grace and are said to sky-rocket click through rates. Everyone’s got it - for the last couple of years, web interface has been all about this glassy feel – ironically enough, with the fall of the...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Customer of the month

    We don't have an award for "Customer of the Month", but the guys from PCTS (www.pcts.com) would definitely qualify for the award. Guys, thanks for the commitment and for the "advertising on wheels"! If you are using our products in an interesting fashion, or you would like to join the club of "TELERIK" license plate holders, make a quick comment here or drop us a line using any of the means you find most convenient on telerik.com. We will be glad to come up with a nice way to reward your...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Adding controls to Visual Studio Toolbox

    The Problem As Rumen said, adding controls to Visual Studio toolbox can be a tedious procedure. That's why r.a.d.controls are automatically added in the toolbox during installation. This makes it easier for the developer to start using them. However there is a catch - no control is added in Visual Studio 2005... Our toolbox adding code runs without an error but ... nothing happens. Several months ago I found the following forum thread which basically said that the code used to add toolbox items in Visual Studio 2003 will simply not work in Visual Studio 2005. And it is 100% right! We decided to abandon this...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    How interactive can things be?

    I recently came across a very interesting site with videos about Multi-Touch Interaction. The videos can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVI6xw9Zph8&eurl=I am a really big fan of interactive browser applications. Google Local and Microsoft Live Local are doing amazing things and, together with small companies like ours (http://www.telerik.com/ajax), are changing people perceptions about what can happen in the browser. Nonetheless, after watching this video, everything that's viewed as incredibly "interactive" on the web is a bit bleak compared to what you will see. Speaking about map interactivity, if you go to the middle of the video, you will see how a user interacts with a 3D geographical map. It's not happening on the...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 – Part I

    Many folks are bashing VS2005 but there are some really great things the folks at MS have added for us in VS2005. One of my personal favorites is the code snippets mechanism. I personally find this feature to be kind of underestimated and will try to give you some basic knowledge about what code snippets in VS2005 are, how to manage them, how to find new, and of course how to “do it yourself” By definition code snippets are referred to as “ IntelliSense Code Snippets” – by nature they are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code, encapsulated in a XML file...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Announcing the r.a.d.callback 2.0 beta -- AJAXicity all over the place.

    I love the smell of AJAX in the morning.  Hmm, no more listening to Sodom till the end of the week!!The last few days have been overwhelming.  We have been doing our best to wrap up a the beta release of r.a.d.callback.  We are finally done, and the build has gone live.  Yes it is true now!  Go get it from the beta forum, play with it and get that feedback back to us. So, what's new and cool in there?  My favorite feature is the huge boost that the CallbackPanel got.  It is not a dumb container that only knows how to execute JavaScript...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • People

    It's time for MCPD!

    As rumor has it, we have quite a few MCSDs on our team and we like to keep our skills sharp. With the release of .NET 2.0 we anticipated a change in the Microsoft certs. We were anxiously waiting for details about MCSD.NET (2.0?), but alas... Good ole MCSD became "deprecated" and you have to get ready for "The Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer" (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/entapp/).Wow.. that definitely sounds as if you are getting a pretty good ROI compared to the plain MCSD. You become a "Professional Developer" and you add the magic "Enterprise" word to your credentials. The only problem is how to...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Telerik.QuickStart.XhtmlPage is a testing tool too!

    Many a customer has asked us "What, the heck, is XhtmlPage and do I need it to run your components?"  It is an oddity in our QuickStart examples application that needs some explanation.  Atanas, the creator of the class, has already started that in his "Making ASP.NET XHTML 1.1 compliant" post. Today I was describing a testing approach on the Extreme Programming mailing list that relied on the fact that our controls render standards compliant XHTML, and you could leverage that to write tests using the XML API in .NET -- XPath is sooo convenient for that.  And then it hit me!  What...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read