Incorrectly rendered rad controls

[Santosh Pradhan]

Recently I bought a new laptop. I am migrating my tools from my old laptop to the new one. I have 2011 Q3 version of the Rad Controls. My new laptop has Windows 8 and I am trying out Visual Studio 13 Preview version. My code compiles without any error but when I run my web site Rad Controls do not render properly.

I researched and found out two possible causes - 1) Enable JavaScript in browsers and 2) Register Telerik.Web.UI.dll in GAC. I tried both workarounds but still my pages are not rendering telerik controls correctly.

Is there anything else I can check?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Vessy]

Hi Santosh,

There are a few known bugs in Visual Studio 2013, that might cause a similar behavior. According to this and this bug reports both of the issues have been already fixed, so you can possibly upgrade to the latest update of Visual Studio 2013 and see whether the problematic behavior still persists.

For the time being, I would suggest that you to try the workarounds suggested in the end of the first linked article, mainly:
- Disable VS13 Browser Link feature by clicking on the Browser Link combo button on the Standard toolbar and unchecking "Enable Browser Link"
- Or disable the debugging <compilation debug="false">

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Veselina Raykova
Telerik

[Santosh Pradhan]

Veselina,

Thank you for your reply.

I did get the latest version of Visual Studio 13. Some controls are working fine but still there is a problem with some important controls - like grid. Then I installed Visual Studio 12 Express on the same machine and ran my application in VS 12 Express and VS 13 respectively. Rad controls work perfectly fine in VS 12 Express but not in VS 13.

See the attached screen shots.

Thank you,
Santosh

[Vessy]

Hi Santosh,

I can only guess, but if the fixes are not aailable in the current version of Visual Studio 2013 most probably they will be available in its next update. Unfortunately we cannot control this behavior and the only thing I can suggest you for the moment is to use the fix mentioned in my previous reply.

Kind Regards,
Veselina Raykova
Telerik