Bug report

When using the Kendo MultiSelect TagHelper and binding it to a model property, the selected values are not populated.

Reproduction of the problem

Create the MultiSelect and bind it to a property of the view model:

@model API.Models.IndexViewModel

<kendo-multiselect for="SelectedCategoriesTagHelper"
                   bind-to="@Model.Categories"
                   datatextfield="Text"
                   datavaluefield="Value"
></kendo-multiselect> 

Expected/desired behavior

The MultiSelect TagHelper should correctly display the selected values when bound to a model property.

TicketID:

1682678

Environment

• Browser: [all]

Consider the use of TextWriter async methods for the HTML Helpers, for example the WriteInitializationScript methods.  In certain scenarios the use of the synchronous methods causes an exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Synchronous operations are disallowed. Call WriteAsync or set AllowSynchronousIO to true instead.

This can be resolved by explicitly enabling synchronous operations

services.Configure<IISServerOptions>(options =>
    {
        options.AllowSynchronousIO = true;
    });

though synchronous operations have been disabled by default at framework level as of .NET 3.0.

Enhancement

Expose the sorts TagHelper for the Grid's column filter datasource taghelper

Overview

Currently, the Grid's Column Filter Datasource Taghelper exposes the following inner child TagHelpers.

Unlike its HtmlHelper counterpart which happens to expose the .Sort() API configuration. For example:

.Columns(columns =>
{
    columns.Bound(p => p.ShipName).Filterable(ftb =>
    {
        ftb.Multi(true);
        ftb.Search(true);
        ftb.CheckAll(true);
        ftb.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
            .Custom()
            ...
            .Sort(sort =>
            {
                sort.Add("ShipName").Ascending();
            })
        );
    });
})

Bug report

Expose additional API configurations for the Grid's ToolBar

Reproduction of the problem

As of recent releases, the Kendo UI Grid Toolbar has been substituted with the Kendo UI Toolbar. This change allows users to add the majority ToolBar.items API options apart from the built-in tools.

As noted within the Kendo UI for jQuery API documentation for the Grid's Toolbar:

"Apart from the built-in tools, the Grid fully exposes the ToolBar.items API. This way you can specify any custom tools in the widget using the components available in the ToolBar itself."

Current behavior

The inherited ToolBar.items API options are not available for the server-side Telerik UI Grid for ASP.NET Core and MVC wrappers as well.

Expected/desired behavior

It would be beneficial to the customers if the inherited ToolBar.items API options are available for the server-side Telerik UI Grid for ASP.NET Core and MVC wrappers as well.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2024.1.130
• Browser: [all]