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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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?

The logout does not work. The first time I used this site I logged on with my bosses credentials. Since then I have acquired my own, but I can not log on with those, as your site always remembers my original credentials. Logout should allow me to log in with a new set of credentials. This post will show with my stuck login of Alain Tadros... but I am John Waters!

Hi-

I was kind of confused with the new search function after being away from the forum for a few months, but I think I figured out the problem. If I hit "return" (using firefox 1.5) when I'm in "Advanced Search" instead of clicking the "Search" button, it actually does the Simple Search.

Thanks,

-Mike

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The last few quarterly releases that I've actively participated in have had a lot of excitement building up to the "release date" published on the telerik Road Map. Then the release date comes and no new quarterly release is available. We are all left wondering what happened and constantly refreshing our Client.net pages to get the release.

Missing a release date is okay with me, especially knowing that the extra time will ensure a top-notch release that won't require a SP in a week. The break down in this process is communication.

Telerik has some great product blogs and a very active community forum that could be used to provide better communication to all of us anxious developers during a release. I think we would all appreciate a post from telerik on the day of a scheduled release letting us know if it's still on or if it has been delayed (and for how long, if possible). That will help us adjust our plans and schedules and reduce our frustration when we just get silence on the day of the scheduled release.

I know you guys are working hard and that this will be another great telerik release! Just take a second and formally let us know what's going instead of making us fish for the information in miscellaneous forum posts.

Thanks~

Hello.

Just take a glance at this grid http://www.treegrid.com/
Holy Moses! Look at compatibility list.

Btw. If you have any interesing implementation of grid (whether for ASP or WinForms), post links here.

Hello,

I'm french and I have a "é" in my name, and the forum won't let me use it.

Makes me sad :-(

Otherwise it's no big deal hehe

Cheers

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i need help regarding AJAX.i m going to develop a Email Client using ASP.Net,DotNetNuke 4.i have to use AJAX to.i have knowledge about AJAX but i don't know how to use it. can anybody help me out.
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