I just had to take a moment to share that I (finally) started digging into RadCallback over the past week and a half, and I couldn't be happier.

I've put it off for quite a while, but with Q12006 and some free time, I decided to dig in.  I have since gone overboard with the new versions by replacing several image navigation systems with TabStrips, implented some toolbars with RadToolbar, and Ajaxified several areas of a large application for things like saving records and user management interfaces.

The interaction and compatabilty between controls from Telerik has been outstanding.  Although I have read about the interaction many times over, I was so impressed to be able to see it first hand.

An example: I took an existing RadMenu that had a group for "selecting an option" where on Postback the leftimage would either be blank, or a checkbox to indicate which option was selected.  The options on the RadMenu would initiate a postback.

I switched this up for those menu items by having them fire a callback using a generic callback control instead of posting back.  I know it is trivial for those of us that use RadControls, but I still can't believe how easy it was to just add the RadMenu to the controls to update and everything simply worked.  The data on the screen was updated and the RadMenu now had the correct checkmark images in the right place.

Anyway, I'm sure this all second nature for those of you using RadCallBack already, but I had to share my experiences with those who have not taken the plunge yet.

Yes, there are some issues with validation, but I think I've gotten around those pretty well at this point.

RadControls has gone from an excellent suite of controls to a simply amazing suite of controls.  I don't think I could ever develop without them again!

Keep up the great work!

-Chris

This time it is ISUZU. Great driving!

Hello

The March release of Atlas has a go live licene. I like to know if (and when (rough) or why not) telerik will switch to use the atlas framework.


Thanks

Marco

Can anyone recommend a tool that does a good job obfuscating ECMA Script?

Hilarious post on the The Daily WTF:) A definite must-read on security...

http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/65974/ShowPost.aspx

 The video can be downloaded at:
http://www.cartoonland.de/archiv/toyota-rav4

In case you want to see the clip online without downloading it, you can go to:
http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=12216

So, who wants a Toyota RAV4?:)

The rotator on the telerik homepage is no longer displaying correctly in FireFox 1.5 (though it looks okay in FireFox 1.0.5). The problem appeared after the site update for the Q1 release. The "What's NEW" text and button bar cover up the promotional images, floating up to the level of the "About us" title in the left margin.

If you cannot reproduce, I'll be happy to send a screen shot.

Thanks~

On a day like today with a major quarterly release, I often wonder what kind of manpower it takes to pull it off; and what kind of manpower (or womanpower) telerik has available to do it.  I've been surprised to see that the forums are still somewhat alive with telerik support contributions today - since I'd figured everyone would be doing their part to get the release out on time.  So my first question is...how many people currently work at telerik?

My next question is with respect to the process by which releases are published.  I'm sure I can't even fathom all the steps that are required in order to do a release, but I'd sure be curious to hear what they all are, and in what order they happen.  I only mention it because I'm sure that the .dll's and other folders are sitting ready to go the morning of the release but other preparations are made so that all hell doesn't break loose once the code is out there.

That being said, I'm quite sure that many developers would simply like to get their hands on the new stuff and wouldn't be worried about a 12-24 hour delay in the supporting materials (documentation, QSF, etc.).  I'm sure it sounds petty to whine about waiting until the end of the day (it's 6pm EST now and no release yet) for the release; however, when telerik announced the March 21 release date a few months ago I'm sure I wasn't the only one that circled that date as one to do a whole lot of updates (and perhaps start on some new projects).  It's just a little unfortunate in my own case, and maybe a few others (or maybe quite a few others), that a whole day has been "wasted" (for lack of a better word) waiting for the published release.

My second question was in the above paragraphs somwhere ;)

Just my thoughts, anyway.

Have you checked our latest section for Product Skins Downloads?

You can find all the needed files to modify an existing skin or get you started with your new custom skin.

Take a closer look and please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

Best Regards,

Zhivko Dimitrov
telerik Web Design team
http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/zhivko_dimitrov

The good thing about Telerik is that they offer a very comprehensive set of Web Forms controls.
The bad thing about Telerik is that they offer no Windows Forms controls.

I'm well aware that developing a windows control is an entirely different discipline from developing a web control, but what I would like very much is a library of web controls and windows controls that share the same object model: that would allow me to make an application logic layer, with very thin web presentation and windows presentation layers.

Failing Telerik's windows forms controls, are there any windows forms libraries out there that offer a reasonably similar object model?