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Desktop WinForms
Why did Telerik enter the Windows Forms market for UI components?
It’s an interesting question that I got from a customer at a conference recently. He was wondering why we entered the Windows Forms space when we were a few years late compared to the other vendors and WPF was knocking on the door. There were a couple of reasons – we have a passion at Telerik to bring controls to Microsoft developers on whatever platform they are developing on. Also at the time we wanted to take the challenge to create desktop UI components where there was no market for WPF. WPF technology was changing from release to release which lead... -
Release
RadListBox & RadComboBox for WinForms get a performance boost in Q3 2007 SP1
Last Friday we announced the availability of the first service pack of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2007. As always, the service pack fixes many issues that have been reported to Telerik since the Q3 2007 release in December. -
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New online resources for the past two weeks (01/21/2008 - 02/01/2008)
Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET/WinForms controls: ASP.NET RadAjax Prometheus Help topics Error handling for Ajax requests: http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/prometheus/?ajxErrorHandling.html Controls not compatible with RadAjax Prometheus: http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/prometheus/?ajxControlsNotCompatible.html RadTreeView Prometheus Code library entries Populating RadTreeNodes on demand via WCF Service: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bcaeek.aspx -
Productivity Debugging
Bug-tracker conversion tool: Gemini -> TFS
Our migration to Team Foundation Server started a couple of months ago with the Source Control adoption. Another step that we performed was to transfer our Countersoft's Gemini bug-tracker projects to TFS Issue Tracking System. I've been searching around for a tool that would perform the job automagically ;-) and found nothing but other inquiries on the subject without answers. So, I'm posting the code, which helped us migrate our projects. Hopefully someone else can benefit from it too and I can save some of your time up. Well, there is no rocket science here, but the code, ...February 05, 2008 3 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Standard Compliant RadInput With No Tables
By popular demand, some Telerik web controls such as RadInput behave like inline-block elements, i.e. they do not force new lines on the page and at the same time, they obey width, height and other block-level-specific CSS properties. In addition, RadInput supports a scenario in which several HTML elements (Label, TextBox and a Button) occupy a preset amount of space, without calculating and changing these elements' widths with Javascript on the client. Unfortunately, all these requirements cannot be met with the current browser CSS support and CSS specification. That's why some of the features and functionalities are implemented at the cost of compromising web standards - we use some... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Licensing for RadControls "Prometheus" for ASP.NET
It seems that despite our best efforts to educate customers, we haven't done a great job at letting everyone know that: When you buy a RadControls for ASP.NET license, with subscription or not, you get a matching license for "Prometheus" controls and you can download the developer build of the controls from your Client.net account. It is up to you to decide whether you want to use the classic controls or the "Prometheus" ones. Everyone who buys an ASP.NET Subscription or a subscription license for the all-inclusive SKU (which includes all UI components for web and desktop development plus Telerik Reporting) gets "Prometheus" as a... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
RadChart: Zooming and Scrolling Support
Hello, We've been receiving a lot of feedback on our charting control lately that indicated interactivity is one of the most desired aspects where we can significantly improve our offering. And we listened! It's my pleasure to announce that starting from the Q1 2008 release in April our RadChart Prometheus control will provide scrolling and zooming support out-of-the-box. Here is a sneak preview that just made it out of the Telerik Charting Labs: Default view: Choose zooming area / factor: Scaled part is displayed -- you can scroll into view other parts of the chart as well (and they are loaded on demand much... -
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New online resources for the past two weeks (01/07/2008 - 01/20/2008)
Content: Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls: RadComboBox Prometheus Code library entries: Using RadComboBox Prometheus and CheckBoxes for multi-item selection: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbmade.aspx RadEditor Help topics: Troubleshooting -> RadEditor "Prometheus" Display issue in Firefox (not uploaded yet) Knowledge base articles: Implementing external Table of Contents where the links point to specific sections within RadEditor: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-hat-b454T-bgh-b454c-bgh.aspx -
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Blogs.telerik.com running on Sitefinity!
It's a fact (as of Monday to be precise) - the Telerik blogs are finally running on Sitefinity and we've got a new design for the blogs. It's actually more than just a design - we've done a lot to fix some of the layout weaknesses of the previous version of blogs.telerik.com and to improve the overall user experience. Now that the whole blogging experience is so much better, you should expect a lot of fresh and interesting content for new things at Telerik as well as general tips and tricks for the tools and technologies we use daily. Happy... -
Desktop WPF
Pony returns
Well... I haven't blogged for so long that I almost forgot about this activity. One of my last posts was around the time we made "the big Bang release". It was so long ago (April 2007) that we spelled Rad as r.a.d. at that time. May be you remember that at that time there was a quest about the release and there was a forum thread about the quest. One guy (Mark Fitzpatrick) asked for RadPony. Well, we couldn't release a pony and it's still not sure it’s going to appear on the roadmap but somehow for me the pony...