Note: in this post, I will suggest a new framework (a new Telerik product), not really a new Control. However, Telerik support asked me to post this here anyway. I would really like to hear from you what you think about it. 

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Dear Telerik Team,

as consultant for one of Europe's largest telecommunication providers, I am constantly involved in projects that require Intranet-GUI's that can easily call Web-Services.

Your RAD controls are great for building appealing Intranet-GUI's.
And your OR-Mapper makes it easy to bind the RAD controls to data sources.

But what is missing is an equally simple way to use Services as data source or data target of web guis. (See http://up-download.de/en/xtreme/manuals/5.00/webservices.pdf for an example of how that could look like)

Here's a very, very typical example of a normal project I am currently involved in:

Application: "Obtaining and enriching information from an external credit agency"
Here's how that is supposed to work:

1. A user enters data about a new customer
2. The user clicks an "identify" button
3. This action leads to the following actions:
      * An internal customer identification service is being called using the data the user has previously entered
      * If that service cannot identify that customer with sufficient hit quality, an external identification service is being called - using the previously entered data again.
      * The result set is being displayed to the user (grid)
4. the user chooses the item that represents the customer whose data he entered
5. He clicks another button
6. This action leads to this:
      * The external credit agency is called via web service
      * When it returns the requested information, 3 more services are being called to enrich that information
      * Another service or mapper is called to package all that information into 1 neat XML package
      * That XML package is being stored in a database
7. The Web-GUI renders the content of that XML package and displays the resulting report.

This is only one of many projects that work similarly.

And it should be possible to build a basic prototype of this without a single line of code.

There should be a web service framework which does to web services what your OR mapper does to databases: make it easy to work with data and make it easy to use that with RAD controls. But I am not aware of such framework. Are you?

If not, I would like to suggest that you build it.

That framework should make it possible to visually import and edit WSDL files, visually transform data so it can be used by RAD controls, and bind their request/response data to RAD controls.

There are some companes (INTREXX, TIBCO) that seem to go into that direction - but they are not quite there yet.

I am sure that in a service-oriented world, it should be a piece of cake to make an intranet GUI able to consume Services without coding.

Thank you very much
Sincerely
Matt

When looking through http://www.telerik.com/help for information and/or code samples, I constantly have to select VB.NET as my chosen language instead of C#.  This would be a great addition to my profile to say 'which is your preferred language'.

I find myself spending more time than I like writing asp.net forms for my CRUD. I like to keep a separate page for allowing users to Insert/Edit items. It would be super awesome if there was a control that I could drop on the page and configure a datasource and it would generate a simple form. I then could have the option to turn the fields from bound to templates and further customize them!

If there is a way to do this please let me know! Keep up the good work you guys rock!

Albert Coker

Based on customer feedback
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A very simple setup:

1) Context menu target
2) Context menu shows on click
3) A certain zoom level

In such case, if you tap some root menu item, another root menu item will highlight for a moment

I would like to suggest a new control build from the same paradigm as the RadSocialShare.
The control should enable a website to provide an easy way to setup shared sign up / login from different providers on your website.

E.g. an easy way to let users sign up using their facebook account or Google account etc.

You need to support touch capabilities in your ASP.Net controls. Drag and drop and swiping are critical to my apps that I build for the PC. With Windows 8 and touch screen monitors now prevalent, you need to support them!

It seems however that the problem comes from the unusual CSS style selector that you use to set the width of the RadTextBox controls. Based on the information of this help article, you should correct your CSS rule like this:

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.three_column .RadInput
{
   width: 448px !important;
}

Note the missing .riTextBox class from the selector. You should not apply width for the inner input element (which this selector controls), but only to the outer wrapping span element controlled by the .RadInput class. After applying this change on my side, the problem didn't reproduce any more.

Yet another approach to fix the issue is to use the inline Width property. However, based on your code I suspect that you intent to change the width by CSS rules and that is why I would recommend the modification in the code block above. 

When a RadEditor or SPRadEditor in a custom WebPart for SharePoint 2013 is placed in an UpdatePanel or RadAjaxPanel it is not ajaxified and loses its content after a post back.

I am not having success on having wrap="false" for my RadGrid. The solution:

(e.Column as GridBoundColumn).DataFormatString = "<nobr>{0}</nobr>";

Will not work since I have hover over and links on several of my columns.

Couldn't RadGrid have a setting of wrap="false" that would apply to the entire grid?

Like control ProgressBar in WinForms.

(I didn't find RadNumericTextBox in the category)
Telerik version - 2011.1.614.35

Auto complete box floats at a distant place, away from the RadNumericTextBox.
i.  The auto complete of IE 9 is on, enter some number, save the form.
ii.  Again open the form, focus on the numeric text box. The auto complete box seen is  not aligned with the control.