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?

hi

i just wanted to say that i'm really happy with the Telerik r.a.d. Control Suite we purchased last year. I actually look for ways to use the r.a.d. controls in every project. And i would also like to say what a joy and easy it is to use your products. Thanks and keep up the damn fine work!.

Sean Rock

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/26/is-your-company-seeing-a-bozo-explosion/

You guys surely know about the WebResource attribute in ASP.NET 2.0 - you can package external resource (like you Skin files - css and images or your Javascript files in your DLL assembly - this may cure the need for ~/RadControls folder.

Deploying the ~RadControls folder for all controls and keeping it in sync with the last hotfix is a tedious job, I'd love to have this cured.

What do you guys think about that (all developers using telerik controls, not only telerik offciails).

Is there a function that can be used to get the name of a Javascript variable? Look at the example below. Is there a function like "GetVarName"? alert(GetVarName(tt)) sould alert the text "myText" ...

var myText = "lorem";

function test(tt) {
    alert(GetVarName(tt));
}

test(tt);

Hello,
I think it's very good if you can add search funcationality to My Support section.

Best Regards

Hello,
I think it's very good if you add a place in forum posts that we can set a few keywords for post.
If it possible we can make a better search over forum.

Best Regards
Mostafa Anoosheh

Hello all:

I'd like to see one more category called "technical suggestions" where we can suggest and talk about various technologies that we'd like to see telerik incorporate into their products...

For example, I'd love to see telerik move their js libraries into dot net binary "webresource" files (DLLs) to help keep deployment easy... that way revision changes could be managed very easily by simply giving each webresource file a unique name corresponding to its revision number!

Anyway, please create a new category for other such kinds of comments.

-Mark Chipman