I am looking for an experienced asp.net (vb.net) developer with a good understanding telerek r.a.d. controls for short contract work. I have number of projects that would benefit from using r.a.d. controls and hope to build a long term relationship with the right contractor.

You should be UK based and at least prepared to spend some time working from London.

Please contact me on mikewaxman@hotmail.com for more information.

Thanks,

Mike

Hello,

My name is Natalie Farah and I am the manager of telerik website team. I would like to address this post to all of you who have experienced problems with the speed of our website.

It's been a while since the last discussion on the topic has been closed. Now I am glad to let you know that during the past few weeks the telerik webteam has devotedly worked on improving website performance. We made a number of optimizations and the results are in front us. I hope you have also noticed the change.

I will be glad to get some feedback since the your opinion will be of great value for us and for any future improvements we decide to make. Whether you have noticed a change or not, please post a few words as a reply to this thread to share your impressions.

Best regards,

Natalie

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Hi All,

With the greatest of respect to all contributors in the r.a.d.controls Q3 release forum... I find the business of sorting out official from unofficial responses on Telerik products, to be a hassle.

I greatly appreciate others' experiences, tips, suggestions etc etc, and value these contributions... but when people start responding on "behalf" of Telerik, I find this to be a problem... i.e. if you are not Telerik, why should I believe you ?? or if you are Telerik and not identified as so, why not??

Might I suggest that we not try to be a pseudo-telerik here, and allow them to provide the definitive answers to their products, availability, plans etc etc.

Regards,

-- MB.

(I hope this is the right forum, I couldn't find any others more suitable)

We're the makers of Evolution (www.darwinproductions.net) and one of the things we have is a completely integrated web module that generates a customer's web site for them with full localization and depending on the web module you purchase it also includes a full portal for customers and vendors etc. to login to and see and interact with projects, tasks and appointments that they're involved with.

The other day I was looking for a better Upload control and realized that you guys have one. We've used your controls in the past on other custom projects and been very happy. At any rate, I was reading the licencing agreement and it indicates OEM rights.  What I'm not clear on is if this is an applicable case.

Our web module is distributed as an ASP.NET website solution that customers can take one of the default themes and customize and even add new pages and do everything you would do in ASP.NET. This means that they can take the base that we provide them and accomplish just about anything.  What I'm wondering is if the OEM licencing would allow me to bundle your control suite with our web module and allow customers to use it in an integrated fashion sort of like dotnetnuke or if they would have to by their own licence to be able to edit the web site?

Any clarification you might have would be greatly appreciated as your control suite would be the perfect solution to our needs!

Thanks!

You can find Todd's blog on http://telerikwatch.blogspot.com/.

Thanks, Todd!


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Built upon a unique architecture, telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms follows telerik’s tradition of innovation and brings exciting new capabilities to the desktop development world. With the new telerik WinForms suite developers can create outstanding NET 2.0 apps that have unmatched interactivity and can take the user experience to a new level. Inspired by WPF and web technologies, the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) introduces CSS-like theming for easy styling of UIs, support for animations and effects to enhance the interactivity of the application and a Visual Theme Builder which allows even non-developers to create amazing interfaces. A distinctive feature of the framework is that it offers excellent performance and developers are no longer forced to choose between advanced UIs and responsiveness.

The current CTP of r.a.d.controls for WinForms includes 6 UI controls: r.a.d.ribbonbar, r.a.d.docking, r.a.d.menustrip, r.a.d.tabstrip, r.a.d.toolstrip and r.a.d.combobox. The suite comes together with several sample applications with advanced UIs to provide a good showcase how to create and style interfaces with r.a.d.controls for WinForms. “You can treat the CTP as a playground where you can experiment with our concepts and explore the new things we are bringing to the market.” – says Vassil Terziev, telerik CEO. “Even though the release will be CTP, we will provide a developer license to all r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET Subscription holders by the end of the week so that clients can use the telerik WinForms controls in production.” Additional information about the WinForms roadmap and the new controls that will be added to the suite with the official release will be available in mid-October 2006.

Discover the full potential of telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms here: http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/overview.aspx

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telerik is pleased to announce the availability of r.a.d.controls Q3 2006. With this milestone release telerik solidifies its position as the leading vendor of ASP.NET UI and sets new standards for stability and performance.

“Throughout the years telerik has maintained an extremely aggressive release roadmap and gradually the r.a.d.controls suite has grown to be the most comprehensive toolset for professional ASP.NET development. Quantity is important, however, we’ve never forgotten that what makes a suite exceptional is quality“– says Atanas Korchev, General Product Manager, r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET. “For the Q3 2006 update we’ve spent a lot of time to polish all aspects of the product offering and further advance the developer experience and productivity – design-time improvements, bugfixes, optimizations, significantly richer documentation for most of the controls. I am most pleased with the progress we’ve made on the WYSIWYG design time support for VS 2005, including AutoFormat preview dialog. This new functionality allows for codeless property mapping and codeless databinding to all ASP.NET 2.0 declarative datasources - (AccessDataSource, ObjectDataSource, SqlDataSource, SiteMapDataSource, XmlDataSource)”

In addition to the improvements covering the whole suite, telerik r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET Q3 adds a brand new splitter control and introduces some key updates of the grid, treeview, panelbar, combo and AJAX controls.

telerik r.a.d.splitter, the newest member of the ASP.NET UI controls family, represents a content manager for creating versatile UI layouts which users can effectively manage just like in desktop applications. Some of the features of r.a.d.splitter include: resize modes, expand/collapse with sliding panes as well as support for loading of external content.

The long-awaited r.a.d.grid 4.0 offers brand new virtual scrolling capabilities and support for self-referencing hierarchy. The self-referencing hierarchy allows you to build multiple levels of hierarchy from a single table in the grid source by specifying relations inside the same table. r.a.d.grid v4.0 now offers a completely codeless experience – from codeless AJAX support to codeless databinding, interface styling and customizing through an enhanced smart tag.

The “No-code” approach is a key benefit of r.a.d.ajax 1.5. The telerik team improved the design-time experience to make it even easier for customers to AJAX-ify their apps in the Visual Studio.NET design-time. telerik’s codeless framework for AJAX development was also enhanced to provide support for web services and you can easily consume remote data with AJAX requests.

In the Q3 2006 release telerik has continued its quest to deliver navigation controls with highly efficient semantic rendering and strong SEO support. Following the very successful r.a.d.tabstrip and r.a.d.menu releases, r.a.d.panelbar is also using list items rather than tables or DIVs to help cutting the HTML output with more than 70%.

“Navigation components are a must for a huge percent of web applications, and unfortunately most of the time they are a reason for performance slowdowns” – says Atanas Korchev. “telerik navigation controls are optimized for extremely small footprint which makes them the trusted choice of professional ASP.NET developers: they are lightweight, they offer rich client-side capabilities and they run flawlessly on all modern browsers running on Windows, Linux and Mac. The telerik navigation controls bring another great benefit to the table - they can help you optimize your site SEO-wise. If you have precious info that needs to be indexed by Google and the only way to reach it is through postback – says Atanas - then it won’t be indexed. With our tools you can easily just create a sitemap of your site, bind a menu, with NavigateUrl per item set to the respective page, and that will do the trick. Our products will take care of the rest and your content will be indexed [and highly valued] by Google.”

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Have you ever considered offering your forum as a product or project like you did for the Helpdesk beta app?

Hi,

It's very brave of you to open this up  - I hope you don't get too much of a rough ride from the customers.

Anyway, my personal beef so far is with the timing of the support.  It appears that the support staff only seem to visit the support forums about once a day which makes it very difficult to resolve problems, espescially if several messages go back and forth taking up several days causing major headaches for customer's development schedules.

I have posted some issues recently where I have had to wait upto 20 hours for a response that has then required me to provide more info (which I did almost immediatly) and then wait another day for a response back, etc, etc. 

Obviously this isn't helped by the fact that one Telerik support person responds one day and then another responds the next day so there is very little continuity.

It would be ideal if the support staff could actually subscribe to the threads they respond to and then they can deal with the on going support issue as the messages are posted, this would lead to a much quicker resolution time and better continuity.

One final thing is that it would really help if the support staff were checking for new messages at least three times a day and that they bear in mind that you have customers all over the world in different time zones.

I'm finding that I am posting messages late in the afternoon UK time and they aren't being responded to until mid afternoon the next day.

Having said all that, when the support does come through it is very good.

Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Cheers,

Julian

Hi.

It's very pleasant that Telerik update forum, but my old bookmarks are obsolete. I have changed them a while ago to proper ones... But now this new bookmarks are wrong now. You know, this is very irritating. How long this will be last?