Has a Telerik Customer for over 2 years now, I now know what to expect from new releases. A lot of Changes and Backwards incompatibilities. Telerik continues to remove properties, methods, change how controls work, renaming properties like the Image to ImageUrl without persisting the old ones for a while.

I'm not saying this changes shouldn't happen, but I believe that they should happen progressively without causing a complete breakdown of a project after an upgrade. Like I wrote on a support ticket, I managed to convert as asp.net 1.1 project into a 2.0 project without these kind of breaks that we have with Telerik controls. Every upgrade is the same old story. Endless hours fixing code. For instance, why did you remove the Title property from the DockingZone object? Did you consider that it could be in use by someone? I know that I can have the same property using Attributes["Title"] but the thing is that I had to change a lot of code because of that. Another amusing change is the property Image to ImageUrl just because it sounds better and makes more sense. I agree, but you should have left the old property for some time so that we could change that without breaking the code.

In a project where we use 5 controls, upgrading to a new release has always been a nightmare because we know that the next week will be just for code fix. The worst thing is, the faulty releases with bugs that only exist because probably no intense testing was made to the controls. Has I'm writing, RadTreeview has a bug where checking a checkbox with AutoPostBack=true and AutoPostBackOnCheck=false causes a postback. How can this happen in a final release? Of course, I just found that the problem wasn't mine after a lost day and finally a support ticket in a total of 1 day and a half lost for this issue.

This kind of errors has soon has they are discovered by Telerik, should be reported in the control Forum so that everyone could know what to expect. The first thing I did after detecting the problem was look for an answer in the forum but with no success. If there was a Telerik Latest Bugs Topic for each control, I'm sure that it would help developers a lot.

Telerik must understand that it's important for us, developers to trust in new releases and not be concerned about the number of days we will have ahead to fixe hundreds of lines once again. That is no way to work. You should be aware of this, and ensure backwards compatibility.

I speak for my self, but I would rather have a one year release without any breaking changes and without bugs. It would be fantastic to just copy the new files over the old ones with everything working.

Curiously, I found some properties where you show a warning of  "property deprecated" showing the new property to use. This would be perfect if you didn't transform that property to a readonly, breaking the code anyway and not allowing the developer to change to the new property over time.

Microsoft did that with the 2.0 Framework. A lot of methods changed, but the old ones still where working with a warning in the compiler telling you to change  to the new one. That is the way to go.

I hope you take this has a positive critique and keep up the good work.

Hi, today I noticed that Telerik Points can be viewed under Community->Telerik Points and Client.net->Telerik Points.  These two link to two different pages, http://www.telerik.com/client.net/telerik-points.aspx and http://www.telerik.com/community/telerik-points.aspx respectively.  I just wanted to report this, whether it is necessary or not to remove one :).

Thanks in advance for reading.

This is more of a question than a suggestion, but I think this is the best place to put this.  What are the various post count requirements for the rankings on the forum (None, Intermediate, Master).  I do remember I was "Intermediate" at one point, but maybe the requirements changed or it is on a per month basis.

Thanks!

-UIdev

Hello,
I found it very useful:
http://www.jasonbartholme.com/101-resources-to-help-you-build-a-better-web-form/

Best regards
Mostafa Anoosheh

I currently own a technology consulting firm here Charlotte, NC, USA and I have a pretty full pipeline of projects that I may need some help with over the next few months.  We use the Telerik RadControls for almost all of our application UIs, so this will be a requirement. 

At a high-level, I am looking for someone who has mid/senior-level development skills with ASP.NET (C#), SQL 2000/2005, and Telerik RadControls.  Good communication and documentation skills are also required.  SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) is also desired, but not required. 

This will be a tele-commuting, contract position (1099).  I would prefer someone in or around the Charlotte, NC area if possible.

Please send your resume to career.opps@streamlogicinc.com.

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards,
Curtis

Curtis C. Hughes
President
StreamLogic Inc.
www.StreamLogicInc.com
Better Business Through Technology (SM)

I have a website that doesn’t sell anything nor do I have anything to talk about. But it uses RadControls heavily. It also uses and a bit of Silverlight. Hope it helps people to think in new directions.

The URL is: www.JustThinkArt.com.

Dear all,

We are very excited to announce that RadControls for WPF Beta Q2 2008 is now available for review and testing.
 
The new breed of UI controls leverages the amazing potential of Windows Presentation Foundation and provides the means to build visually stunning, interactive, fully customizable applications. The suite demonstrates Telerik’s vision of what desktop applications will be in the future – blending realistic data presentation with versatile editing capabilities.
 
The toolset includes three innovative controls: RadGridView, RadCarousel and RadCalendar.

RadControls for WPF is provided free of charge to all registered users. For more information, please visit: http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/overview.aspx  

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Hi All,

I have seen one strange behavior of the forum today. I have asked a question in the "RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX" for calendar validation problem. It was displaying for sometime and then gone!! . I am so much confused. How to get back to my question ? I have tried with the keyword search for my question . But I can't find anywhere. Can anybody please help me?  Also please suggest me where/how can I find my posted question/answer at the forum.?

Thank you.

Regards.

Hi,

I'm looking for a good tool to write technical documentation, and was wondering what tools Telerik uses? I like the chm help file format you guys publish.

I already use ndoc for generating API documentation, I'm more interested in tools to create written docs.

Any advice from telerik or other users would be greatly appreciated!

TIA

Kevin.

Hi, I´m Maite and I´d like to tell you about my problem...
Well, what I wanna do is, to change something in a Master Page from the code behind of a content page, that I don´t hnow how to say it, but it has as his master that Master.
The thing I want to change is located inside of a div tag and is the name of a class..
In general terms, what I wanna do is:  if condition then div class = someName else div class = otherName...
I thought about because, for one page I want a different style, but not everything different but only a image...

Well, I really hope you can understand my question and my problem, and that you help me...
thank you,

maite