Although it's quite understandable, I find it quite disheartening that you (and a few other component vendors) have fallen into the Microsoft Office 2007 UI Licensing trap. The license is a load of sh*t and hopefully someone will be able to challenge Microsoft in court. There is a lot of prior art and Microsoft are not in a moral position to punish UI theft. They have even gone to court themselves to prove that such "theft" is a non issue.

It's VERY nice that they provide guidelines, but they should not be allowed to enforce them in any way, other than by giving seals of approval to those who pay for the review process (just as it works with MS certified applications)

It is our pleasure to announce r.a.d.controls for WinForms survey with fabulous prizes. Please, check it out here:
http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/surveys/survey-information.aspx

Our team is looking forward to your feedback.

Best Regards,
Ivo Nedkov,
telerik team

Hi

Does anybody know of an asp.net blog component to plug in to an existing application?

/Flemming Brink Rosenbrandt

    I downloaded the Classic Grey skin for the Tabstrip (v3.33) control.  However, the PSD file only has one layer which appears to be lock in Photoshop (6.0).  Is there a way to view the individual layers that were used to create the skin?
My goal is to adjust to the colors to variety of different colors (like the red, blue, green samples in the Online Demos)
Am I missing something?
Thanks!

You can check out the release history here:
http://www.telerik.com/ReleaseHistory.aspx?id=412

- Johnathon Sprouse

Is there a sample out there where RadGrid is being used with sql server and has business logic layer.  I have an entities class called from business logic layer, but I don't know how to tye it into my radgrid when updating/deleting/inserting.  Depending on what the user puts in the grid, I might have to change other values in my sql server table.

thanks
nick

Make sure you check out our latest KB article on common CSS issues in Internet Explorer 7 and how to solve them:
http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-tkk-b454T-a.aspx

Hi,

SEO becomes more and more important. I know that already the navigation controls (like radmenu) are search engine friendly. But why reduce it to that controls?
SEO is related to the whole website not only a part of it. The point that I want to show is:
Telerik takes a method or standard and declare it as important for all members of RadControls. The examples in the past were: standard compliance with XHTML. In the near past compliance with ATLAS.
What is now with SEO? It would be a great advantage for telerik to competition, if telerik would announce the first SEO-compliant ASP.NET control suite.

Or what do you think?

Best regards
Andreas

Hello,
In some pages of Telerik site we can see large viewstate.
you can simply send viewstate to end of pages for faster download & better indexing in search engines.

My suggestion based on 2 posts from scott
1. Google AdSense and ASP.NET View State
2. Using a Base Class to Fiddle with a Page's Rendered Output
you can use this base class that the ASP.NET pages in your application extend for optimizing output of pages in your site.

using System.IO;
using System.Web.UI;

/// <summary>
/// Summary description for OptimizedBasePage
/// </summary>
public class OptimizedBasePage : Page
{
 protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
 {
  StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
  HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
  base.Render(htmlWriter);
  
  string html = stringWriter.ToString();
  int StartPoint;
  int SLength;  
  //remove some invisible characters to compress output
  html = html.Replace("\t", "");// tabs
  html = html.Replace("  ", " ");// double spaces
  html = html.Replace(" />", "/>");// space before end of tags
  StartPoint = html.IndexOf("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"__VIEWSTATE\"");
  if (StartPoint >= 0)
   // does __VIEWSTATE exist?
  {
   SLength = html.IndexOf("/>", StartPoint) + 2 - StartPoint;
   string ViewStateInput = html.Substring(StartPoint, SLength);
   html = html.Remove(StartPoint, SLength);
   int FormEndStart = html.IndexOf("</form>");
   html = html.Insert(FormEndStart, ViewStateInput);
  }
  writer.Write(html);
 }
}

Best regards
Mostafa

We have recently published a Skinning Tutorial on our web site.

http://www.telerik.com/documents/SkinningTutorial.pdf

Please, review it and share your feedback.
Does it help you get started with telerik skinning? What is missing from this paper? How would you like us to extend it?

We are dedicated to provide you with all the necessary resources and help you "deliver more than expected" with your UI.

Your comments are very welcome!

Best Regards,
telerik team