Web: ASP.NET AJAX

We are very excited to announce the Beta of Q3 2008 for RadControls ASP.NET AJAX. These are the key areas in which we have been working in the past couple of months: Improved Performance Client-Side Features Improving Data Access MVC Support jQuery integration Right-to-Left Support Merging charting into the Telerik.Web.UI.dll Full details and download instructions are available in this forum thread. Enjoy the new bits and send us any feedback you have!

Hi, all. We have a couple of requests from customers to do something and make RadComboBox working when javascript is disabled. And we did it. We implemented a new AccessibilityMode property which will render noscript tag containing a select html element. This will make the combobox control usable even if the javascript of the browser is disabled. Yes, it will be displayed like an usual drop down list but still it will be RadComboBox on the server. The following RadComboBox definition : <telerik:RadComboBox ID="RadComboBox1" runat="server" Width="250px" ForeColor="Green" AccessibilityMode="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="RadComboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged" AutoPostBack="True"> <Items> <telerik:RadComboBoxItem runat="server" Text="RadComboBoxItem1" Value="RadComboBoxItem1" ForeColor="green"/> <telerik:RadComboBoxItem...

I have the pleasure to announce that RadCalendar for ASP.NET AJAX has undergone a considerable HTML and CSS optimization. As a result, the HTML output generated by the following RadCalendar declaration has dropped from 5,916 bytes to 3,905 bytes, or by...

Welcome back to another episode of RadTips, a series of episodes offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific RadControl feature: 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 ...

Summary The technique demonstrates how to transform a non-AJAX scenario which adds a CSS <link> tag to the head of the page to work with AJAX, using a client-side javascript function to register the  <link>. Using AJAX in an application is probably the standard now. Partial page rendering offers a number of benefits such as increased page responsiveness, as well as close-to-desktop experience using AJAX-based toolkits such as RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. However, adding UpdatePanels to the page and expecting that all of your “postback” logic will continue to function without changes is only true for simple scenarios. There are many more advanced...