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It is considered a good interface design practice to make it easy for the user to provide input.  One of the ways to do this is to anticipate what the user is trying to enter and provide them with options or complete the entry for them.  For example, if I type in a popular browser a web address containing the letters "tel" I will see several options made available to me, as shown below. The key is to have the ability to make a reasonable guess at what the user is trying to input.  This is particularly helpful for values that...

Today I decided to break the lengthy silence on my blog by writing about two of the features that will be included in the Q3 SP1 (mid-December), namely labels in 3D and labels formatting. Here are a couple of screenshots:   As the screenshots clearly show, the labels are simple 2D controls instead of 3D objects. As I wrote in an earlier blog post, that guarantees the labels will be readable at all times, and not hidden by other 3D objects (always on top of the Viewport). If you are interested in the implementation details, you can refer to the aforementioned blog...

When we have a running application and we want to show a modal dialog window what we generally do is more or less the following: var window = new MyDialogWindow(); window.ShowDialog();   Doing that works great - the dialog window shows and is modal. It has just one tiny defect - if you switch from the running application to another one (i. e. using Alt + Tab) and then come back to the running app the modal dialog window is not showing and the app is inactive. The solution - just assign the parent window to the Owner property of your modal dialog window :  var window = new MyDialogWindow(); window.Owner = this;  window.ShowDialog(); ...

I'm happy to announce that with our next service pack you will be able to bind the grid completely codeless to ADO.NET DataService. With this great new feature you will get full REST support for paging, sorting and filtering without writing any code: pure JSON response: and all operations are applied directly to the data-base server: [Live | Download]...

In some cases you might want to hide duplicates in a single "column" - for example if you group by a field, it would be nice to present the data in a more clean way.

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This has been something like a tale of the unexpected for me. A client recently reported a problem with scrolling being slow in IE when the mouse wheel is used. It took about two afternoons of testing different scenarios and head scratching, and this is where we got: it seems that if a :hover pseudo CSS class is used on the web page, scrolling in IE7 becomes slower, even if the CSS selector, which contains the :hover pseudo class does not select anything, i.e. the CSS rule is not relevant to any of the web page elements. The longer the page, the...

  UPDATE: Please see this blog post for updated instructions on enabling IntelliSense in the Q1 '09 version. We have recently announced that we are shipping jQuery with RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax. You can use this completely unmodified version of jQuery in your projects, as long as you have the RadControls assembly in your bin folder. This way you do not have to include jQuery and this can translate into 50kB less traffic. You can enable IntelliSense, just like with the standalone jQuery, in VS2008 with a few simple steps. 1. Install the Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense patch, if you have not already done so. 2. Download...

Conference season has been in full swing for the past couple of months, and I must say I'm glad things are settling down so I can get back into my normal routine. All this traveling has been fun - especially the opportunities to meet Telerik customers and many great members of the .NET community - but I'm ready to see the end of airports and conference halls for a few months. Those of you who travel to all the conferences and speak for a living, I have a newfound respect for you! One of the cool things that I've brought home...

Welcome back to another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. It's been a while since my last RadTip, so I hope you enjoy the new content. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. 1 - Client-Side Data Binding in the RadGrid 2 - Client-Side Paging in the RadGrid 3 - Client-Side Sorting in the RadGrid 4 - Client-Side Filtering in the RadGrid 5 - Getting Started with the RadScheduler 6 - Using the LinqDataSource in your RadGrid  7...