My daily RadControls experience consists of:

• do the best I can
• when I have a question, come to the forum
• check demos
• once in a while check videos and code samples
• contact Support
• in desperation, consult documentation pages
• repeat as required

I prefer not to contact Support simply because I don't want to waste their time. Telerik Support personnel are stellar! They know their product and the technology, they're cordial, and communicate effectively. But Support can take a day or two to respond too. When I'm stuck on an issue, I need to resolve it ASAP.
 
I do prefer to post to the forum, so that everyone can benefit from information found there. The problem with the forum is that responses aren't guaranteed, they're not guaranteed to be accurate, and they are not as timely as Support.

Notice consulting documentation is on the bottom. I'm sorry but the website docs don't provide insight. The info there is basic documentation. I'm often left understanding a single function, but in the overall plan, unless I know I need that specific function it's frequently a long journey to get there. Like most docs, that material is for reference, not tutorial.

For tutorials and training, I know there is Telerik TV, all the vids, Trainer, and Falafel and other services. There is also one decent (but old) book that's easily available, and a newer one published within the last year or two.

But every day, with all of this material available, I'm still finding myself in the forum doing searches - as much time there as I might spend in Google.

So the question is : How do we get to Ninja status? Is there a book or "insiders' newsletter" that really goes deep on these controls to fully explore various nuances?
- I want to see a diagram of how the grid is laid out, where CSS is applied, and what options are available at every tier. I don't want to have to hunt to figure out which object in the grid exposes some property.
- I want to get total immersion into the why's and how's of client side development so that I can ween myself away from server-centric development and some of the headaches of postbacks.
- I want to be completely in tune with the exact state of controls at each stage of the ASP.NET life cycle, so that I'm not surprised when I see control events firing, and so that I can pro-actively prevent rogue event firing rather than using e.Cancel.

This product is so deep. A class would take a couple weeks, travel, and a huge expense. Given a large budget and a lot of "free" time (laughing too hard here) I'd prefer a book like "RadControls Unleashed" or "Telerik Inside and Out". I wish we could pick a topic, start a discussion with a Telerik developer, and carry on the discussion over a period of weeks to completely absorb what that person has in his or her head. Then move on to the next topic. Then when people have a question in the forum send them to this brain dump before posting a hundred random responses, with dead-end discussions, or isolated details about the product.

OK, I'm done now. You get the idea. :)

Thanks for any responses!

Is separate Telerik package (64 bit DLL) which will be compatible with SP 2010  Or the older package will work with SP2010.

Hi,

Today I came on here and found you hade redone the website..
Personally, I hate it.. The menus being at the bottom of the screen is just annoying.
I haven't found "my page" as of yet.. Why does the top only have "shopping cart" and "sign out"?
This isn't a webshop, in my opinion.. I don't see a huge use for a shopping cart on this site, certainly not for me.

  // Regards, Morten

the first part of gridview in xaml flix and part 7 copy paste?? are viewable.

All the rest come up as private only!!?

Hi, how can we download video for offline viewing? E.g. for http://tv.telerik.com/watch/automated-testing-tools/test-studio-guide-to-success-part-i  ?

I'm trying to get custom paging and filtering working without using the asp.net markup data sources (every Telerik example I've seen uses these).

I'm binding the data source in the OnNeed data source event where I use RadGrid_EditData.MasterTableView.FilterExpression to get the complete filter expression in this kind of form:

"(iif(SourceTable == null, \"\", SourceTable).ToString() = \"Contact\") AND (Clear = True)"

I need to parse this to produce an SQL statement.  Is there an easier way to get the filter expressions (there could be more than one).

The examples I've seen use the ItemCommand event to grab the last changed filter, but I need to get all filter expressions in the NeedDatasource event.

We are developing a major new website and are looking for an expert asp.net developer. At the moment I'm considering the use of Telerik controls but haven't made a final decision. However, we do need to find a developer to join the team.
This is a really exciting major development and a chance to be a key member of a small development team. We need someone based in the UK and available for discussions and meetings in the East Midlands (and ideally based around here).

There is huge scope for great creativity in the site, which is highly novel and involves massive amounts of data and the dynamic presentation of that data. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm, creativity and passion to help create the live system. Ideally we are looking for someone with a view to them become a full time key employee but we are flexible (so can discuss this).

We are build a small team of people to create this site and we need someone with excellent development skills who understands the development of very large sites, can help to create exciting user interfaces, a strong problem solving ability and someone who can develop and implement complex algorithms and systems. Given the potential use of Telerik controls we would also like to find someone with extensive experience of working with Telerik controls and experience of both client-side and server-side code.

Hi, Telerik team

How to realize update the data of appointment via drag or drop the appointments in the scheduler?

If you are in the San Francisco bay area and have good .Net with Sitefinity experience, email me your resume at babake2000@gmail.com, urgent. Sitefinity CMS experience is mandatory.

Looking for comments anyone might have on the difficulty of integrating Telerik components with shopping cart software. 
In the shopping cart section I'd like to use master pages with the Telerik menu.

The Sitefinity add-on looks interesting but is beyond the customer's budget.

Thanks,
Steve