There is a bound column in my Razor MVC Grid that I do not want exported to Excel. I have seen some examples that show creating an Excel export event then using hideColumn to remove the column but that does not seem to work for me. How can I hide a column in the grid export to Excel?
.Events(e => e.ExcelExport("excelExport"))
     e.sender.hideColumn("Received");}So, I had the Grid working with Ajax, and that was really awesome as the paging and sorting was very quick. However, we had a problem that larger data sets (30k and more) would have the Grid time out. I believe switching over to a server side binding and grabbing 20 at a time would allow users to get the data. (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
Here's what I had before:
@(Html.Kendo().Grid<vNPISearch>()            .Name("npi-grid")            .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource            .Ajax()            .Read(read => read.Action("NPI_Read", "Pecos"))            .ServerOperation(false)            .PageSize(20))            .Columns(columns =>            {                columns.Template(x => { }).ClientTemplate("#=GetPecosStatus(PecosNPI) #").Width(50);                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderFirstName).Title("First Name");                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderLastName).Title("Last Name");                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressCity).Title("City");                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressState).Title("State");                columns.Bound(x => x.NPI).Title("NPI");            })            .Scrollable()            .Sortable()            .Pageable(pageable => pageable                .Refresh(true)                .PageSizes(true)                .ButtonCount(5))      )And the NPI_Read looked like:
public ActionResult NPI_Read([DataSourceRequest] DataSourceRequest request){    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(SearchTerm))    {        return Json(oandpService.GetPecosSearchResults(SearchTerm).ToDataSourceResult(request), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);    }    else    {        return null;    }}However, the performance was ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE! For it to grab 55 records it took almost 10 seconds, whereas if I just populated a simple table it would be almost instantly.
So, I wanted to try server side binding.
The view now looks like:
@(Html.Kendo().Grid<vNPISearch>()            .Name("npi-grid")            .Columns(columns =>            {                columns.Template(x => { }).ClientTemplate("#=GetPecosStatus(PecosNPI) #").Width(50);                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderFirstName).Title("First Name");                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderLastName).Title("Last Name");                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressCity).Title("City");                columns.Bound(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressState).Title("State");                columns.Bound(x => x.NPI).Title("NPI");            })            .Scrollable(src => src.Height("auto"))            .Sortable()            .Pageable()            .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource                .Server()                .PageSize(20)                .Total((int)ViewData["total"])                .Read(read => read.Action("NPI_Read", "Pecos"))))And the NPI_Read looks like:
public ActionResult NPI_Read([DataSourceRequest] DataSourceRequest request){    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(SearchTerm))    {        if (request.PageSize == 0)        {            request.PageSize = 20;        }        IQueryable<vNPISearch> searchResults = oandpService.GetPecosSearchResults(SearchTerm);        if (request.Sorts.Any())        {            foreach (SortDescriptor sortDescriptor in request.Sorts)            {                if (sortDescriptor.SortDirection == ListSortDirection.Ascending)                {                    switch (sortDescriptor.Member)                    {                        case "ProviderFirstName":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderBy(x => x.ProviderFirstName);                            break;                        case "ProviderLastName":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderBy(x => x.ProviderLastName);                            break;                        case "ProviderBusinessLocationAddressCity":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderBy(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressCity);                            break;                        case "ProviderBusinessLocationAddressState":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderBy(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressState);                            break;                        case "NPI":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderBy(x => x.NPI);                            break;                    }                }                else                {                    switch (sortDescriptor.Member)                    {                        case "ProviderFirstName":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderByDescending(x => x.ProviderFirstName);                            break;                        case "ProviderLastName":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderByDescending(x => x.ProviderLastName);                            break;                        case "ProviderBusinessLocationAddressCity":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderByDescending(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressCity);                            break;                        case "ProviderBusinessLocationAddressState":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderByDescending(x => x.ProviderBusinessLocationAddressState);                            break;                        case "NPI":                            searchResults = searchResults.OrderByDescending(x => x.NPI);                            break;                    }                }            }        }        else        {            //EF cannot page unsorted data.            searchResults = searchResults.OrderBy(x => x.ProviderLastName);        }        //Apply paging.        if (request.Page > 0)        {            searchResults = searchResults.Skip((request.Page - 1) * request.PageSize);        }        searchResults = searchResults.Take(request.PageSize);        ViewData["total"] = searchResults.Count();        var result = new DataSourceResult()        {            Data = searchResults,            Total = Convert.ToInt32(ViewData["total"])        };        return Json(result, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);    }    else    {        return Json(Enumerable.Empty<vNPISearch>().AsQueryable());    }}However, when I run the page it immediately returns: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. With Line 21 being highlighted. That line is .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
So, two questions:

Hi,
I am not able to add the zoom property to my already existing Kendo Chart using HTML.
Its not accepting the zoom attribute and I am using kendo version v2015.1.408. Kindly Help me with the solution
Please find the code as below:
<td>
<%= Html.Kendo().Chart<prt.web.models.qualityovertimeviewmodel>()
.Name("BarGraphCold")
.Series(series => { series.Column(model => model.ColdGerm).Color("#1CAAD9"); })
.CategoryAxis(axis => axis .Categories(model => model.Label )
.MajorGridLines(lines => lines.Visible(false)) .Line(line => line.Visible(true))
.Labels(labels => labels.Rotation(-30)) ) .ValueAxis(axis => axis.Numeric() .MajorGridLines(lines => lines.Visible(false)) .Max(100) .Min(0) )
.Legend(legend => legend .Position(ChartLegendPosition.Bottom))
.Tooltip(true) .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource .Read(read => read.Action("GetBarChartData", "Visualize")) ) %>
</prt.web.models.qualityovertimeviewmodel></td>
I searched and can't find anything on this. I tried to deploy my 1st ASP.NET MVC website using Telerik controls. The Telerik controls don't load. So I must have left out a step. I'm hoping you can tell me what I left out.
I copied the contents from my Visual Studio project to the web server. The Kendo javascript files are on the webserver. The kendo dll's are in the bin folder on the web server.
When I run a view - the Kendo controls are missing. For example, a dropdown list will look like a textbox and have a value in it. Instead of being a Kendo dropdown list. And the Kendo menu doesn't work either. I can see the menu, but clicking on the down arrow to see the menu options doesn't do anything.
Do you know what I need to do? Thanks.

What is the correct way to have a column in a Telerik MVC Razor page that contains a link for a person to click and view an image in another window?
The images will be on a network directory share.
Each row image location is passed in the data view model.
Something like <a href = "file://///ccijisdevbt01m\d$\pictures\Graffiti_London.jpg" target="_blank"> Link to image </a>

Are there any plans on updating the Telerik.Web.Spreadsheet.dll to work with .Net Core?
I'm working on an ASPNET CORE project and I need a way for a user to select an excel file from a dropdown and then load it into the spreadsheet control.
Thanks,

Dear kendo ui team.
You publish really helpful sample projects. Taking a closer look you use unofficial APIs to solve the problems. This means you don't support those solutions in typescript and tehre is no documentation for them to understand what else could be done with those APIs. That's really unfortunate.
One of those helpful examples is found here. kendo.timezone and kendo.date seem to be unofficial APIs, since they are not includede in the typescript definition.
<script>        function getAdditionalData() {        var scheduler = $("#scheduler").data("kendoScheduler");        var timezone = scheduler.options.timezone;        var startDate = kendo.timezone.convert(scheduler.view().startDate(), timezone, "Etc/UTC");        var endDate = kendo.timezone.convert(scheduler.view().endDate(), timezone, "Etc/UTC");        //optionally add startTime / endTime of the view        var startTime = kendo.date.getMilliseconds(scheduler.view().startTime());        var endTime = kendo.date.getMilliseconds(scheduler.view().endTime());        endTime = endTime == 0 ? kendo.date.MS_PER_DAY : endTime;        var result = {            Start: new Date(startDate.getTime() - (startDate.getTimezoneOffset() * kendo.date.MS_PER_MINUTE) + startTime),            End: new Date(endDate.getTime() - (endDate.getTimezoneOffset() * kendo.date.MS_PER_MINUTE) + endTime)        }        return result;    }</script>Using those APIs in your official sample projects makes those APIs somehow official. Would be nice if you honor that in your documentation and typescript definitions.
Kind regards
Bernd