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A Quick Look at the Q2 2012 Release of the Telerik Extensions for ASPNET MVC

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:00:00 Z

How time flies! Seems like just yesterday we were rolling out with a fresh new release of the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, but here we are ready to go with the next iteration. As always with a new release we want to do a quick highlight of what is new in the product suite, so get excited everyone – here’s the latest news on the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.

Platform Support

We’ve added quite a lot of new things in the way of support to this release. First of all we have the highly anticipated support of the latest IDE...

Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC and the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:00:00 Z

With today’s introduction of the ASP.NET MVC wrappers for Kendo UI, or Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC as they’re officially called, many questions are sure to arise about their relationship to the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. While the FAQs on KendoUI.com noted our plans for ASP.NET MVC from the outset, today’s release brings more clarity to our long-term plans. In this blog post, I’m going to explain how the release of Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC impacts the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.

Note: If you’d like to know more about Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC beta, please read this blog...

Time Saving Features For MVC Developers

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:52:00 Z

I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awesome in the extensions.

VS Extensions

Telerik’s MVC extensions come with built in Visual Studio extensions to make project creation, and configuration, a snap. In addition, the extensions include a variety of project templates to help start new projects:

What Makes it Awesome

Instead of forcing me to manually check for updates, the extension proactively alert me to any available updates:

When opening a project using an older...

Telerik MVC Extensions Q1'12 commercial service pack available

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:48:31 Z

The Telerik MVC Extensions service pack for the first quarter of 2012 is out in the wild! It is available under the Telerik accounts of the commercial license holders. This maintenance release delivers a slew of improvements and fixes that will boost additionally your productivity and help you develop modern-looking and high-performing web sites with the Telerik MVC Extensions suite.

Here are the most important enhancements we are shipping with the Q1'12 Commercial Telerik MVC Extensions package:

(ComboBox) Added option to toggle case sensitive behavior of the combobox
(Date/Time Pickers) Allow to specify the available hours of the time view - applicable for...

Using the Telerik Extensions in ASP.NET MVC4 Today - A First Look

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:28:34 Z

It’s an exciting time to be an ASP.NET developer, especially with the upcoming ASP.NET 4.5 and MVC4 releases, and I know a lot of you are wondering how the Telerik Extensions ASP.NET MVC will work with ASP.NET MVC4. While we do not have official builds against MVC4 today, we will be providing these once the platform finally comes out of beta. For those of you curious as to whether or not it works in the current beta, I can tell you that it does! Actually, I’ll do one better: I’ll show you! :)

For the Love of Beta

For this demo I’m...

Cascading comboboxes and more charting features in the Telerik MVC Q1 2012 release

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:02:00 Z

The Q1 2012 Telerik DevTools release is out the door! Following the MVC Extesions Q1'12 Beta announcement, I would like to tersely sketch what the additions in the official release are (or the omissions I inadvertently made in my previous post). Either way, here they are.

Cascading comboboxes

This has been one of the top voted features for the combobox in our public issue tracker, and we heard you! This release gives you built-in cascading comboboxes support by specifying the id of the related combo via the CascadeTo combo attribute. Once you make a selection in the first combo, the second...

The Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:40:27 Z

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of the Telerik MVC Extensions Q1 2012 Beta release! With it comes the longed-for Area chart type as well as a bunch of new features for the majority of the existing chart types supported by our MVC charting. We are also shipping a plethora of small and medium-sized features across all the Telerik MVC extensions, as well as formal support for the Chrome 16 and FireFox 10 browser versions.

I won't go into much detail about each and every new functionality delivered with the Beta and, consecutively, the upcoming official major release...

Scatter Your Data – Now!

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:46:00 Z

The chart component for the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC is a rapidly expanding MVC component. Not only are we adding many new features, but we’re also increasing the available chart types. With the introduction of Q3 2011 we were able to start using two new chart types - Scatter and Scatter Line. Both types allow you to plot points anywhere on your chart area, as long as you provide each point with X and Y values. Let’s take a look at how you can implement these chart types, as well as take use of some new features introduced in...

Telerik MVC Extensions commercial Q3 2011 service pack available

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:40:06 Z

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you enjoyed the Christmas and New Year holidays and spent them with your beloved ones. Let's wish prosperous and joyful year 2012 to all of us!

Now that everything is going back to the regular daily routine here at Telerik, I want to present you the Q3 2011 SP1 release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, delivered for the commercial package. This is our present, right after the holidays, to our MVC prospects...

What's next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:37:58 Z

Now that the final major release of the Telerik DevTools division is behind our backs, it is time to make some preliminary plans for year 2012. The AJAX and MVC suites received important updates throughout 2011 and, as you probably expect, this trend will continue next year. One tad you need to have in mind is that the DevTools release will be shifted one month ahead, therefore it will be out in mid February, instead of mid March as it used to be.

This means that you will get all that is slated for the next release sooner than you imagined....

Telerik's Q3'11 brings codeless OData binding support for the AJAX and scatter chart for the MVC suite

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:13:57 Z

Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to.

MVC Scatter Chart

In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your...

Telerik MVC Q3 2011 Beta preview: New charting and grid features, and better mobile support

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:05:28 Z

Two days after the Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta launch we are presenting you the MVC Q3'11 Beta preview bits. Among the highlights are the new Metro skin for all Telerik MVC Extensions, improved mobile support, new Pie chart series type, keyboard support for the editor and a bunch of new features for the grid extension. The compressed packages for the Open Source and Commercial distributions are ready and steady for download.

Enhanced Mobile Support | Metro skin

With this early preview we are conveying improved mobile support for our MVC extensions in terms of drag & drop and touch support for the grid,...

Q2 2011 SP1 AJAX and MVC service packs

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:47:34 Z

Right in the apogee of THE //build conference when the Microsoft developer community is impatiently swallowing the news revolving around the future of the Windows and .NET development, we are delivering for you the service pack releases for the Telerik AJAX and MVC product lines.
And not to distract you from collecting the information that is pouring every day over the mass media, I will briefly give you the highlights (in terms of enhancements) of our maintenance releases.

RadControls for...

Company Achieves ROI of 15x the Initial Cost with Telerik’s ASP.NET MVC Extensions - Case Study

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:15:41 Z

Paylocity, a leading US online employment services firm recognized by multiple industry ratings, knew their Time and Labor Management product, Paylocity Web Time, needed a strong competitive advantage, if it was to stay successful in the crowded market for web-based employment services. This is why the development team undertook an aggressive project on improving the product.

Project requirements and objectives:

Make the product more intuitive in order to increase user productivity
Update product in a manner that would take advantage of modern technologies and add support for tablets and phones
Redesign the interface to achieve a sleeker look and feel
Build...

Q3'11 Telerik AJAX/MVC Roadmaps

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:35:49 Z

I know that some of you, fellow developers, are enjoying the hot summer days and took well-deserved vacations during this period of the year - spending them by the beach with an icy cocktail in hand and getting bronze tan. And I envy you a little for that :) But here, in the Telerik HQ, the working cycle constantly spins no matter what the odds and the weather are, and the time has come to share with you our AJAX and MVC Q3 2011 plans.

AJAX Roadmap (View)

Quick highlights

Two new controls: Social Share and Org Chart
New Metro skin (preview can...

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC – Getting Started with the Chart

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:11:43 Z

With the release of Q2 2011 we here at Telerik are proud to announce the Chart Extension for ASP.NET MVC. This component has been designed from the ground up with a high focus on performance and cross-browser compatibility and is based off of SVG and VML (for browsers that do not support SVG). Many of you are probably interested in how you can start working with the chart and this blog post should help guide you along the first couple of steps.

Server Binding

Out-of-the-box the chart component can very easily bind to any supplied model on the server. If the view...

Telerik Q2 2011 ASP.NET AJAX/MVC release

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:07:40 Z

The Q2'11 Telerik Developer Tools release has finally arrived! Welcome the new components and features are integrated into our AJAX and MVC suites and announced a couple of weeks ago:
AJAX Q2'11 Beta | MVC Q2'11 Beta

But wait, that is not all...there is more :) We put a few hidden gems up our sleeve to get you even more thrilled when you get your hands on the fresh downloads. Wanna know what they are? Read below to find out.

MVC Line Chart

The brand new MVC chart introduces support for line series in addition to its...

Congratulations: Best Success Stories of ASP.NET MVC Apps Announced

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:18:34 Z

We are happy to announce that the contest for success stories of applications built with Telerik's ASP.NET MVC Extensions is now over. Thanks to all who participated and shared their experience with our product!

We collected tens of success stories and enjoyed reading every single one of them. As a result, it was very hard for us to choose only three winners, and in fact, we managed to narrow them down to four. Not only did we have to rank two third-place awards, but we also decided to publish seven case studies in total! We will get in touch with all...

Telerik MVC Q2 2011 BETA bits

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:59:59 Z

The Q2 2011 Beta pack of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC has just been uploaded on telerik.com! As usual, you can find the open source and commercial (paid) version in your Telerik account's > MVC Product Files Download section:
Open Source Download | Commercial Download.

New component, new skins

The Beta release introduces new HTML5-driven MVC charting extension which utilizes SVG/VML for vector graphic drawing. Light-weight and cross-browser component, built from scratch and in perfect harmony with the MVC design pattern paradigm, the chart supports bar/stacked bar series, Ajax binding and exposes basic client API...

Telerik ASP.NET MVC Extensions: Upload Deep Dive

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:00:00 Z

Recently there have been quite a few questions popping up around our ASP.NET MVC upload component, specifically when working with it in synchronous mode. Although this variation of uploading files is not really too complex when compared to its asynchronous counter-part, I believe some of the confusion stems from the MVC syntax that is used in our online demo. My goal with this blog post is to provide a bit more clarity to what exactly is happening in this demo, mostly taking a look at the MVC syntax.
Before we get started, open up our Synchronous Upload demo in your favorite...

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in Azure – Part 2, Deploying your Application

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:43:00 Z

In Part 1 of this series we covered how you can create an MVC (both MVC 2 and MVC 3) web application that is ready to be published to the cloud. Of course we also went through how you can make this application a Telerik application, taking use of our Visual Studio Extensions. What the application actually does is up to you of course, but now that you’ve finished developing everything you want to take it to the next level; you want to deploy!

Launching to the cloud

So your project is ready to rock and you’re eager to brag to everyone that...

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in Azure – Part 1, Building your Application

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:15:00 Z

As some of you are (hopefully) aware of, our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX work flawlessly on Windows Azure. We actually have a short blog series available here on our blogs that go through the necessary steps for creating an application (Part 1) and later deploying it (Part 2) to Windows Azure. However, do our ASP.NET MVC components work on this platform? The answer is: yes! (Note the usage of ‘!’, that’s how exciting it is!). The best thing is that the process is no more complicated than what you have to do for our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.

Note

Since most of...

First Telerik AJAX and MVC Q1 2011 service packs

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:12:00 Z

A month after the official Q1 2011 release of our AJAX and MVC components, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the first maintenance packs for both product bundles and appoint the most important bullets in them. See the next two paragraphs for details:

AJAX Q1 2011 SP1

Release Notes | Demos | Documentation

Highlights

Updated the internally used jQuery to 1.5.2
Addressed reported IE 9 issues for all components
Grid - Updated the grid's visual designer to provide support for grouping and client settings; Support for default font setting when exporting RadGrid to PDF
RibbonBar - Added RadRibbonBar>RibbonBarMenuItem>NavigateUrl property
SiteMap - All SiteMap nodes...

Q2 2011 Telerik AJAX and MVC Roadmaps

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:11:00 Z

A couple of weeks after the official Q1 2011 bits were out, there were people who started to ask: "Hey, what about your future plans for web development? I am impatient to know what you guys will be cooking for the summer release..". Well, with no further delay I am presenting you our AJAX and MVC Q2 2011 plans to feed your curiosity :)

Telerik AJAX controls Q2 2011 Roadmap
http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/whats-new/roadmap.aspx

Focal points:

Two new controls - image editor and web alert
4 new skins (Transparent + 3 Office2010 variations)
Mobile and accessibility improvements
HTML5 file API support for AsyncUpload, HTML5 input types rendering...

FireFox 4 supported by Telerik AJAX and MVC components

Stefan.Rahnev@telerik.com — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:10:00 Z

Right after the official launch of the new major version of the FireFox browser (you can download it from here) I asked our web teams to test the Telerik AJAX and MVC components against the latest version of FireFox. And guess what? Both suites support FireFox 4 and no modifications are needed! This is an acknowledgement that you can develop sites with our Q1 2011 AJAX and MVC bundles and be content when running them in FireFox 4.

Pretty convenient, yeah?

About the author

Stefan Rahnev

Stefan Rahnev is the Unit Manager of the ASP.NET Telerik Division. He has been working for the company...