Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax

Product Information

Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX includes over 30 UI controls and over 30 helper controls. From the leading AJAX data grid to the HTML editor used even by Microsoft, you will have all the building blocks for creating rich, SEO-friendly, high-performance Enterprise web applications. Telerik controls come with a range of ready-to-use themes including a Metro-inspired theme.

Just some of the controls included:

RadAjax, Calendar, Chart, ColorPicker, ComboBox, Dock, Editor, FormDecorator, Grid, Input, Menu, PanelBar, Rotator, Scheduler, Slider, Spell, Splitter, TabStrip, ToolBar, ToolTip, TreeView, Upload, Window. And many more!

New Features

New in Q2'13

• New! TileList Beta- easily build modern, Windows-8-like navigation with this control (in beta).
• Lightweight rendering mode- uses HTML5 and CSS3 technologies for Calendar, Window, Tooltip, Dock and FormDecorator controls, reducing file sizes and rendering times.
• HTML chart- new Candlestick chart type along with support for Date and Time series.
• Pivot grid- export PivotGrid content to Excel, perform OLAP filtering and take advantage of a new Totals Calculation feature.
• Grid- new features include batch editing, conditional load mode for hierarchical grids, built-in 'expand/collapse all' buttons, plus more.
• DropDownTree- filter the content of the DropDownTree, check/uncheck all items with a single click, use the keyboard to navigate items, plus more.
• RibbonBar- group ribbon items represented as images in Microsoft-Word like galleries and take advantage of an improved application menu.
• SearchBox- allow your users to search for items within specific categories.
• Scheduler- users can now change the length of appointments by dragging them across multiple columns in Week and Multiday views.
• ImageEditor- users can resize and move figures as they draw.
• Input- improved resize capabilities for multiline inputs, new Invalid property and new client-side ValueChanged event.
• Performance- grid, editor and scheduler all receive bug fixes and updates.
• Accessibility- improved accessibility for AutoCompleteBox, ComboBox, Dock, FileExplorer, ListBox, SearchBox and TreeView controls.
• Mobile support- enhanced look and behaviour of controls under mobile browsers and devices, especially IE10.

New in Q1'13

• New! Persistence Framework (beta)- let your users configure your pages as they like and the persistence framework will ensure they see the same configuration next time.
• New! PivotGrid- official release, now additionally featuring OLAP support, floating menu, data cell and header templates, rich server-side and client-side APIs, plus more.
• New! DropDownList- lightweight dropdown control for data binding to any type of data source with virtual scrolling for enhanced performance.
• New! DropDownTree- provides a tree control embedded in a dropdown container to allow users to easily select items in large hierarchical lists.
• New! SearchBox- search box with AutoComplete functionality for your web app or website.
• New! ZipLibrary- package multiple files into a single Zip file and decompress existing Zip files.
• HTML Chart- features two new chart types - Bubble and Donut - and an improved visual appearance for axes, labels, titles, legend, etc.
• Image Editor- leverages the HTML5 Canvas tag to add drawing capabilities as well as built-in filters like Sepia, Hue/Saturation and Gray Scale.
• Grid- supports the .NET 4.5 Model Binding and data annotation validation.
• Editor- improvements to 'Paste from Word' functionality.
• Barcode- features the ability to render RadBarcode as an image, which means you can also save and print it.
• Async Upload- allow your users to pause and resume the file upload process.
• ComboBox- new lightweight rendering of the control leveraging HTML5 and CSS3 in modern browsers to achieve better responsiveness and less traffic to the server.
• Skinning- enjoy 3 new skins, as well as SASS support for all skins allowing you to create custom skins a lot more easily and quickly.
• .NET 4.5 Model Binding- leverage the new .NET 4.5 functionality with all data-bound RadControls.
• Accessibility improvements- enjoy WAI ARIA support, as well as WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 compliance improvements for 30+ RadControls.
• Mobile support improvements- all RadControls have been tested and optimised to work seamlessly in iOS 6 and Windows 8 touch devices.
• Design-time improvements- manage absolutely any property of all data-bound RadControls using the enhanced Design-time wizards.
• SDK- browse this set of advanced examples to learn how to use the RadControls in complex, real-world scenarios.

New in Q3'12

• New! HTML5 Gauge- high-performing, HTML5-based radial and linear gauges draw attention to certain values in a scale
• New! PivotGrid (beta)- display pivoted data in tabular, outline or compact layout
• New! AutoCompleteBox- auto-suggests a filtered list with options based on user input and supports multiple item selection and token and string display modes
• Barcode- use RadBarcode to easily transform URL, text content, phone number or other strings into QR codes for any chosen standard
• HTML5 Chart- features a new Area chart type, multiple Y-axes support, client-side templates for labels and tooltips as well as a feature-rich VS Design-time wizard
• Editor- features a Format Painter tool with MS Word-like functionality, as well as support for export/import from Markdown formatting syntax to HTML and vice versa
• ImageEditor- introduces canvas tag support and two new filters for inverting colours and controlling brightness/contrast
• Grid- define a detail row template to show related to the data item information in a custom manner
• TabStrip- introduces tab reordering with drag and drop
• AsyncUpload- manually start uploads and disable chunk uploads, set custom drop zones for the uploaded files and apply user application pool impersonation
• ODataDataSource- adds data caching and integration with a few more controls - RadGrid, RadListView, RadAutoCompleteBox and RadScheduler
• TagCloud & Dock- improved keyboard support allowing users to navigate through the TagCloud tags with the keyboard arrows and use access key shortcuts to fire Dock’s commands
• OrgChart- bind RadOrgChart to AJAX-enabled web services
• VS12, .NET 4.5 & IE10 support- RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX look and behave flawlessly in VS12, .NET4.5 & IE10
• Mobile support improvements- enjoy more responsive touch scrolling behaviour of all RadControls
• Updated design-time wizards- all control configuration wizards used in VS Design mode are now VS12 UX compliant
• MSOCAF support- introduces full SharePoint compliance to all ASP.NET AJAX controls.

Benefits

Familiar ASP.NET AJAX API

No need to learn another vendor’s API – if you have worked with ASP.NET AJAX, you know how to work with RadControls and you can enjoy the product’s extensive client-side JavaScript API without a steep learning curve. The product uses the same events, naming and base methods.

Unbeatable performance

Achieving performance is typically one of the biggest challenges in web development. RadControls features numerous capabilities to improve your performance such as built-in AJAX, built-in JSON, ViewState and HTTP compression, client-side databinding, efficient rendering with sprites and semantic HTML, script combining, and many more.

Powerful client-side capabilities

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX allow developers to fully leverage the widely supported client-oriented programming of the ASP.NET AJAX framework. RadControls have a familiar and rich client-side API, guaranteeing full control over various functions performed on the client, such as: ability to bind to web services on the client; rendering on the client; ability to add, modify and remove items on the client and much more.

Wide cross-browser compatibility, XHTML & accessibility compliance

RadControls have wide cross browser compatibility and all popular browsers are fully supported. The controls are also rendered in clean XHTML for strict W3C standards compliance and are accessible according to both Section 508 and W3C Accessibility Guidelines.

SharePoint and DNN

Telerik RadControls include wrappers for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and DotNetNuke (DNN). Tailored for seamless integration with SharePoint and DNN, the toolset allows professionals to build web-solutions with the UI richness and responsiveness of desktop apps.

Runs on Linux

Telerik's ASP.NET controls run on Mono, an open source .NET framework implementation sponsored by Novell, tailored for development of Linux applications.

Cloud Support: Amazon S3, Windows Azure and More

Using LINQ, REST service calls and the client-side databinding capabilities of RadControls, you can consume cloud-based data and write back the changes to the cloud. And if you wish, you can go a step further and create a completely cloud-based application with Telerik UI controls.

Editions

Starter licences

• Community Assistance
• Dedicated support - covering up to 10 incidents
• Support response time of 72 hours
• Supports up to 3 purchased starter licences per company - cannot be combined with any 'Professional' licences.

Professional licences

• Community Assistance
• Dedicated support - unlimited support incidents
• Support response time of 24 hours
• Updates for subscription period
• Source code
• Licenced developer switching
• Supports an unlimited number of purchased licences per company.