Now that Web.UI 2008.2 is officially out the door, I can take some time to sit back and reflect on what's been done. There are some great new controls, as usual, and major enhancements to our Grid control. I'm particularly excited about that last...

View Angle Chooser is a UI control that comes included with the Charting 2008.1 product. It displays three sides of a rectangular box which can be rotated using a mouse to select the best chart viewing angle. Check out the Charting toolbar demo to see...

ComponentArt Charting 2008.1 introduces an easy way for end users to customize the look and feel of charts. This is accomplished through a JavaScript client-side API. Charting toolbar demo in ComponentArt’s new Charting gallery shows how this can...

The Web.UI product team has been hard at work on the next major release of ComponentArt's flagship product line. I am pleased to announce that the release of Web.UI 2008.2 is on the horizon and that it will include three new controls, a major Grid...

Upon visiting the drill-down live demo in CompoentArt's new Charting gallery one can easily see the benefits of client-side events within WebChart's client-side API. Not only can you register event handlers when a data point or series is hovered...

Zooming and scrolling is one of those essential features that is a must-have for any comprehensive charting product. However, deciding how to implement zooming and scrolling within WebChart was not obvious as there was no industry consensus on how this...

We are thrilled to announce the release of ComponentArt Charting 2008.1. This product has been in the works for well over a year and it brings a number of truly important new features to the market. At this time I would like to highlight the two most...

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....

Web.UI vNext (preview build included in attached project packages) will include, among other things, a new feature of the CallBack control which will allow it to become extremely useful for integrating AJAX functionality in web applications build on Microsoft’s...

In my previous post , I talked about the web service functionality that's common to all ComponentArt navigation controls. I focused on common features that are present in many different controls, especially in this case, but this approach was unfair...

It's been some time now since we first started introducing client-side integration with ASP.NET AJAX web services into our controls. The first foray was the ability of Grid to bind directly to JavaScript object arrays, allowing it to directly load...

With a mandate to continuously improve our products and suite as a whole each version of Web.UI can bring many upgrades. With Editor 2008.1 we decided to add a new method of skinning the Editor control. Previously, developers were required to employ our...

ComponentArt Web.UI 2008.1 includes one new addition to the library of controls: Upload . ComponentArt Upload is a file upload control with all the high-end AJAX and client-centric functionality one should expect from a Web.UI control. The control comes...

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...

We've been hard at work on Web.UI 2008.1 for a few months now, and I am happy to report that we are rapidly approaching the feature-complete beta milestone for the next major Web.UI release. This means that we are ready to announce what will be included...

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...

We are proud to have been a sponsor for the We Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge event this past weekend. It was a software development competition for a very good cause. This 3-day event matched developers with charity organizations, in order to help...

Sometimes, clicking a mouse to initiate an important action seems underwhelming. The lowly mouse with it's anemic button, while necessary to perform almost all significant actions in a windowed UI, doesn't really convey a sense of urgency or gravity....

A common scenario that our users encounter with the Grid is the need to populate it with different data depending on client-side context – for instance, a dropdown option or a TreeView selection. Very often, this situation is solved by to setting...

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...

Version 2007.2 of ComponentArt Grid includes, among other goodies, an exciting new feature: WebService running mode. We think it should be very useful for a lot of people so, in this post, I want to introduce you to this feature and explain how it works....

The SpellCheck control, like most others in Web.UI, includes a powerful client-side API. The philosophy behind SpellCheck’s design is that as little as possible should be baked right into the control when it comes to visual interface, and that custom...

Version 2007.2 of Web.UI brings with it two new controls: Editor and SpellCheck. In this post, I will provide a brief overview of SpellCheck, describing its abilities and the design philosophy behind it. SpellCheck, as its name suggests, is an ASP.NET...

As part of an overall effort to optimize HTTP-related performance of Web.UI, version 2007.2 includes a new mechanism for reducing the overhead of client script deployment. Since the script files themselves are of manageable size, and drastically benefit...

Myth: You can't have a string literal stretch across two lines of text in JavaScript. Fact: You can have multiline string literals in JavaScript in all browsers. Multiline (or is it "multi-line"?) strings are a fringe feature of programming...