MaskedInput class's Transform property that I described in depth in a few preceding blog posts presented us with an interesting design dilemma. At first it seemed like it should be a typical enumeration property, with one value for each Transform type. However, since the architecture allowed new Transform types to be added in a number of ...

Since the introduction of the WebService running mode in ComponentArt Grid, and related functionality (like the client-side load method), we have seen this approach rapidly gain popularity and, naturally, produce demands for more features and more versatility. Versatility is key when it comes to UI controls, so we have been spending some ...

Two days ago, on Saturday, I attended Toronto Code Camp 2008, the third such event organized in our fair city. It was my first time at a Code Camp and I had a good time and learned a lot. In addition to attending some very interesting presentations and chatting with people from the ASP.NET community, I got to speak as well! My talk was about ...

Since the time we shipped our first production suite of native ASP.NET AJAX controls back in November of 2006, we've been experimenting with new ways of doing efficient incremental page updates. We felt that we had something promising on our hands with full fledged client-side controls. The ability to create high-level UI elements (menus, ...

  Previously, I have written about Grid’s new WebService running mode, which allows Grid to communicate with an ASP.NET AJAX web service directly from the client, and do all its data loading through it, including paging, sorting, filtering, etc. This powerful functionality is also available on ComponentArt navigation controls: ...

Without any doubt, the upcoming Editor control is the most anticipated product ever developed by ComponentArt. Our customers have been telling us for years that they are unhappy with existing solutions on the market, and that we should make a ComponentArt-quality browser-based WYSIWYG editor. We set out to do that about a year ago, and I am ...

  Now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has shipped, it's a good time to talk about the next version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. More specifically, I am happy to share some good news on how Microsoft's next major platform release will affect ComponentArt's customers.   Scott Guthrie has a great post on ASP.NET AJAX in .NET ...

Now that we got 2007.1 out the door, we can finally take some time to reflect on what we’ve done, and talk to you guys and gals out there about what’s new and notable in the release. It certainly feels good to be writing in a natural language for a change. Since one blog post would hardly suffice for discussing all the new controls ...

Last night we updated the official Web.UI product roadmap. We are about 1-2 weeks off target regarding the release dates that were announced back in November. However, the good news is that the 2007.1 release will include one additional control (Dialog for ASP.NET), adding a total of three new controls: ComboBox, ToolBar, and Dialog. Adding a ...

With the growing proliferation of Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX, we are often asked by customers whether our CallBack control is intended as a replacement for UpdatePanel, or alternatively, whether UpdatePanel makes the CallBack control obsolete. To address these questions, I feel I should try to clear things up a bit. CallBacks are simply ...