Ok, before we start, a few bits of housecleaning.  First bit is that I’m changing job and the new office I’m going to doesn’t use the Telerik controls, or even the Entity Framework (as far as I know), therefore, I won’t be following up on the promise I made about developing articles regarding these as I shall soon lose access to this very expensive suite of controls. Sorry. Second bit of news is that [...]

  Ok, as I’m sure everyone has noticed, things have been a little quiet here, that’s what happens when you have kid(s)! But, as I promised, I’m slowly getting back on top of things. Here’s a sneek peak at what’s coming up.   I’ve spent the last few months getting familiar with the latest and greatest of the Telerik Custom controls, in particular, their Reporting tools.  My first Tutorial will be how to produce a [...]

A particularly interesting and useful aspect of the .Net AjaxcontrolToolkit is the Autocomplete Extender.  This Ajax control offers a user friendly interface for your user, is intuitive and lends itself easily to things like Search and Contact Forms.  Most people will refer to this control as the Ajax AutoComplete Dropdown.   Adding an AutoComplete Dropdown will offer your user a better online experience, guaranteed. In this example, I’ll walk you through Registering your AjaxControls, implementing the AutoCompleteExtender and eventually adding the [...]

  Like most people, I spend a lot of time on the Internet, doing searches to find ideas, code snippets and support or advice from fellow programmers.  I thought that today I might spend a little time going over a list of the Top .net support forums that I frequent.  I’m not going to list them in any particular order because I tend to go through periods where I spend more time on one than another, [...]

Ok, today I had a little free time and I thought I would hit upon something that is very, very simple to use but unfortunately, not used nearly enough.  By using the TextBoxWatermarkExtender, you can easily inform a user of the requirements or usage of a form without cluttering the page with additional content.  Adding a watermark extender to a textbox takes literally 1 line of code but doing so adds much to the user [...]