[Solved] Use installer or manual methd to update to Q2 2009

[Clive Hoggar]

Hi

I may be being over-cautious, but I am not sure from the online install instructions if it is
best to use the installer msi or to install manually for this update?

I am using vwd 2008 SP1 and already have Q1 2009 (3.5) installed.

Please straighten me out!

Thanks

Clive

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Clive,

Basically you should not experience any problems with the new RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Installer.

Here are the issues we've found so far:
In very rare cases the ToolboxItem registration method of the previous installer failed to remove the items properly. In such a case a simple toolbox reset (right-click on the Toolbox and choose "Reset") fixes the problem.

The other issues are related to the previously installed standalone Visual Studio Extensions package. If you haven't installed them, you should not experience any troubles with the new installation. If you have them installed, you should be able to fix the problem (if any found) by following the instructions in the Problems during install/uninstall forum.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
the Telerik team

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[Clive Hoggar]

Hi

Thanks.

I have installed from the msi, and updated the dll in a specific website I am working on.

Everything went well, but I have seen a small gremlin. A standard button on a page with the
form decorator has an odd artefact. The right-hand few pixels of the button are displaced upwards by about
5 pixels.

What can be wrong here?

Thanks

Clive

[Martin]

Hello Clive Hoggar,

This is a known issue with IE7, and we have a fix with it. In a few words - an input element inherits the padding or margin of its parent if it is a block element. If you experience this issue with your own project, we will give you a solution.

Greetings,
Martin Ivanov
the Telerik team

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[Clive Hoggar]

Hi

I have worked around this, but let me explain in case it is useful to someone else..

1 ) It occurs in IE8 and Firefox

2 ) When you use the asp.net field validators in dynamic mode, if they are positioned above the
submit button they cause the button to move down, and part of the sytem does not notice it has moved.
If there is a validation error when the button is clicked, and the visitor corrects it and clicks the
button again, the error message disappears, but the form needs to be clicked a further time to
submit it.

You can get round this annoyance by having some extra top margin on the button by style="margin-top:10px"
for example.

3 ) This worked fine until the Q2 2009 release, when the top margin is applied only partially.
It is applied for most of the button width, while leaving maybe 5px with zero top margin...

SO...

I have positioned the validators BELOW the button, so it does not move, and removed the style,
and now the button is fine again.

This will last me until the real fix.

Thanks
Clive

Clive