It is our greatest pleasure to announce the first beta of RadControls for WinForms Q1 2008!
 
This early Q1 2008 preview includes an appetizer of the anticipated major overhaul of RadGridView for WinForms as well as a new major version of RadMaskedEditBox and extended RTL language support. Q1 2008, when officially released in April, will also introduce a couple of new controls and several new versions of the current WinForms controls, which are not part of the current beta. 

RadGridView

Our extensive research on the new RadGridView version started back in October 2007 and focused exclusively on the needs of our customers, namely better usability and top-notch performance, and revealed several areas that needed our attention:

• UI and painting improvements, based on the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF)
• Performance improvements in the data layer
• Performance improvements in the data <-> UI communication
• Stability and simpler API

The great news is that RadGridView’s performance has been optimized dramatically and the results are more than impressive*:

• Based on the “high refresh” performance test with 13 rows x 13 columns, the new data layer offers outstanding refresh performance with flat data: 2-3 ms (vs. 460ms in Q3 2007!) 
• Average time for loading 300,000 records of data: ~ 340 ms 
• Average time for grouping 300,000 records: ~ 100 ms 

* Tested on a WinXP machine, 2GB RAM, Intel Core 2 @ 2.13GHz (just one core utilized during the tests)

Usability has also been greatly improved, and the API simplified.

There are several features which we left for a subsequent beta. We will suggest reviewing the list of Known Issues and the Backwards Compatibility log before using the RadGridView beta in production. You can download the docs below.

RadMaskedEditBox

The Q1 2008 beta also features a fully functional preview of the new major version of RadMaskedEditBox. It adds a new Numeric MaskType which allows the user to set culture-specific masks for inputting currency, decimal, and percent values.

RTL Language Support

We have added RTL Language support in RadDateTimePicker , RadPanelBar and RadScrollBar.

Download

You can test the Q1 2008 beta first-hand by downloading the trial version from here (right-click and select Save As):

 Build: RadControls for WinForms Q1 2008 Beta (trial) installer
 Docs: Known Issues and Backwards Comapatibility
 Help: RadControls_for_WinForms_Help_Q1_2008_Beta.zip
    (new versions of the help files will be posted as soon as they become available)

You can use the public WinForms Beta Forum to share your feedback and comments. Our developers will be addressing all questions posted.


The Telerik Team

Do we have any Telerik Button Control. If not then how  how can we applu  Skin on ASP.NET button

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of RadControls for ASP.NET Q3 2007 SP2.

RadControls for ASP.NET "Classic"
Release Notes
Demos

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX "Prometheus"
Release Notes
Demos

Best Regards,
Telerik Team

Hi i am new one using visual studio i am too much confusing with junk of information so if any one have comprehensive guide for learning or url for learning How to use data grid control in .asps .net files. please guide me
Thanks.
Ali.

Heyas:

My company is very interested in the Prometheus controls, and wishes to purchase a developer license for them so that we can get rid of the copyright that pops up occasionally. I saw that they weren't released yet, and was wondering if purchasing the RadControls package would disable the copyright for Prometheus controls.

The problem is, I will be unable to get my company to purchase both the RadControls package and the Prometheus Controls package as both are a bit pricey (I'm assuming a $800 price tag for Prometheus as well as RadControls). We are implementing Prometheus controls now, so need to be able to implement them now...

I have a form inside a RadAjaxPanel and a RadWindow on the same .aspx page. After an initial page load, if I click inside a textbox, which is inside an ajax panel and hit "Enter", the RadWindow opens. I do not want this to happen. I want the form to save. No problem, all I had to do was add a DefaultButton to the Panel around the form inside the RadAjaxPanel. This worked fine, but produced another problem. The form inside the ajax panel is complex. There are LinkButtons after each text box that need to be able to be fired by the "Enter" key when they are highlighted by hitting the "Tab" key. The default button setting overrides those link buttons and the form saves, rather then firing the LinkButton that is highlighted. So, to fix this, you might think I could just put a panel around every link button and set the default button to the link button inside the panel. Well, I cannot do this, because the panels affect the layout of the form by causing carriage returns. Some of the code is pasted below.

Thank you in advance for any help.

-Allan

<

asp:ImageButton ID="HelpImageButton" ImageUrl="/Image/QuestionMark.jpg" runat="server" />

<

radwin:RadWindowManager Visible="true"

id="RadWindowManager1" Skin="Office2007"

VisibleOnPageLoad="false"

runat="server">

<

windows>

<radwin:RadWindow ID="RadWindow1"

OpenerElementId="<%# HelpImageButton.ClientID %>"

Runat="server"

Width="475px"

Height="350px"

NavigateUrl="Help.htm"></radwin:RadWindow>

</

windows>

</

radwin:RadWindowManager>

<

radajax:RadAjaxPanel id="RadAjaxPanel1" runat="server" LoadingPanelID="LoadingPanel1" Width="880px">

<!--complex form here with several textboxes and linkbuttons and one save button.-->

</

radajax:RadAjaxPanel>

<

radajax:AjaxLoadingPanel ID="LoadingPanel1" runat="server" Transparency="25" BackColor="#E0E0E0">

<asp:Image ID="Image1" ImageUrl="../RadControls/AJAX/Skins/Default/Loading7.gif" BorderWidth="0px" AlternateText="Loading" Runat="server"

style="margin-top: 50px;"></asp:Image>

</

radajax:AjaxLoadingPanel>

It is our pleasure to announce the first Service Pack of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2007. Among the many bug fixes you will find some nice extras:

• A new Desert theme for most controls
• Significant performance improvements in RadComboBox and RadListBox
• A drag&drop node copy  feature for RadTreeView

For more information on the release, please review the Release Notes.

Happy coding!

 
The Telerik Team

Hi Friend

Can you help me to upload zip file as attachment with thread.

Thanks in advance

I am developing a web portal using the telerik ASP net libs and would like to convert what was started to now use the Prometheus libs / VS2008 net 3.5. My web site is operational now but it is in need of some TLC from a programmer who is in the know and can address my questions with my implementation of the telerik libs and do some from scratch new development.

The ideal situation is this:
Me:
  an overworked developer/entrepreneur with lots of good ideas but little time
  provide structured projects with a balance of proper design and get it done
  projects will start out small working into larger as a working relationship forms

You:
   Been working with the telerik libs for a while (visible demos a +)
   C#, SQLServer, OO, Nunit, n-tier
   have strong opinions on what is the right way to code w/ telerik
   have a do what it takes to get it done attitude
   Moonlighting OK as long as communication and delivery times are good

Please contact me via:   ajenski at throttlefull dot com

Dear sir,
I m copy the applcation from one machine 2 another . when i run the application , i  m getting the error as shown below .

This control is complied for ASP.NET 1.x. Please use the ASP.NET 2.0 native version: RadComboBox.Net2.dll

pls give me solution

prakash