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EULAs are Fun. Mock Them Mercilessly! by Ken Cox [MVP]

In my previous post about the new, free Telerik JustDecompile beta , I made fun of the license terms that specifically forbade you from decompiling their decompiler. As you might expect, this was a copy and paste oversight and has been fixed in the latest...

Telerik’s Free Decompiler: Just Don’t Decompile It!* by Ken Cox [MVP]

Telerik has released a beta version of its new ‘always free’ .NET decompiler, JustDecompile . These guys really know their marketing and community support. (Redgate recently disappointed the community by moving the popular .NET Reflector to a $35 paid...

Extracting the Date from a DateTime in Entity Framework 4 and LINQ by Ken Cox [MVP]

In my current ASP.NET 4 project, I’m displaying dates in a GridDateTimeColumn of Telerik’s ASP.NET Radgrid control. I don’t care about the time stuff, so my DataFormatString shows only the date bits: <telerik:GridDateTimeColumn FilterControlWidth=...

Fix: CSS Problems in IE 8 With Over 31 StyleSheets by Ken Cox [MVP]

In my latest Web application, I went crazy trying to find out why a popup/overlay window style was acting up in IE 8 but was fine in the latest version of FireFox. After too many hours of frustration and dead ends, I took the issue to my friends at Telerik...

Standout Component Vendor: Telerik by Ken Cox [MVP]

I guess we all like it when others validate our opinions. I was part of Visual Studio Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice” panel this year. My choice for Top Component Vendor was Telerik and I added this: “Telerik produces a broad range of highly functional and...

The Importance of Using !important in CSS Styles by Ken Cox [MVP]

I just lost time trying to hide a CSS border in a third-party control, so it’s worth a quick post to help others avoid similar frustration. I could plainly see in the Internet Explorer 8 developer tool that an unwanted border in the Telerik RadRotator...

Fixing the ‘Telerik.WebControls.GridInsertionObject does not contain a property’ Error by Ken Cox [MVP]

I really like working with the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls. However, I keep forgetting about a problem in the RadGrid that occurs when trying to add a new record using EntityDataSource. If there aren’t any records yet, and you click Add Record, you...

Support, Support, Support by Ken Cox [MVP]

I’m currently using the fine Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX to build a Web application for a client. I just wanted to say how pleased I am with Telerik’s customer support. As with most developers who encounter a new toolset, I get stuck due to a...

Fixing EntityDataSourceWrapper Error in EF (VB Version) by Ken Cox [MVP]

I lost a lot of time today on this error: ‘EntityDataSourceWrapper' does not contain a property with the name …' The project is ASP.NET 3.5 using Entity Framework and VB. I’m using the Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (a sweet suite!). In my app,...
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