It's always selecting the first item when the filter is set to "contains"
Also, consider chaning the default filtering to "contains" like jQuery's AutoComplete UI control :) The others just don't work

I created this suggestion in the forum, but I thought I echo the same info here for others to enter their vote.

Recently, the Telerik ASP.Net Ajax released their Q2 with a nice & powerful "Notification" control. This control can be very useful with 3 tier apps using pure Ajax to notify actions that take place on the server or web service. I suggest to consider this control for future development.

..Ben 

Hello Team;
will there be a similar concept like ASP.Net "Master Page" which eliminate repeating part of a page in any new page? This would help designing a less crowded page.
Or a similar concept like Silverlight having a "Content" area that can be navigated to using AJAX. 

It would be nice to have built-in support for a row details feature in the Grid similar to the Telerik Silverlight GridView.  http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#GridView/RowDetails

I would rather have my users wait a couple of seconds for the page to load, than show all the components and have the browsers load the sprites and background images. i.e. the "flash of unstyled text" but only for images.

Is there any way you guys can forcibly pre-fetch all kendo images (maybe by creating invisible <img /> tags) so that the images would've been cached, and the UI appears instantly, even for people through slow connections

maybe, you can make this optional - because it will be useful for people using a lot of kendo elements on the page - when compared to the people using it as a minor portion.

I would love to do:
kendo.preload(function()
{});

The seems to be some general usability issues with some aspect of most of the controls when used on the iPad. For instance the combo box shows the drop down twice on focus and then shows the keyboard, which then does not hide again.

You cannot scroll the grid it scrolls the page, little things like this make what could be fantastic a bit frustrating.

Make it easier to change the themes without having to recode all our CSS code. Many of us have already invested a lot of time in custom JQuery UI ThemeRoller themes for our applications. If we had a conversion tool that saved us from all the CSS recoding I would gladly drop UI and switch to Kendo ASAP. 

Add better namespace support 
in the form of an include or using statement file for 
ease of code resuse. (Key word there is Ease) 

import Kendo.UI.widget;
import Kendo.UI.validation;
import MyAwesomeClass.THX.Teleric.ILUVU.BYEBYE;


I'd sing your good deeds across the land if you did that.

I think there is a real need to try and get the ui feeling much more like a desktop app with regards to how data is added to a grid - I have always found the Telerik Ajax grid to be overly cumbersome for entering new rows of data. There needs to be a fluent approach to this  where by tabbing through all of the columns in the last row in the grid it should add a new row that can quickly be updated again via tabbing - much like win form controls; the aim should be speed and ease of use.

It would be nice if Kendo offered an online tool that could produce a custom, minified JavaScript download with only the JavaScript code for specifically selected features.

In addition to Line and Bar chart types, it would be nice to have support for the Pie chart type.

I would like to request, for the following controls: Rich Editor, Data Filter, Masked Input for building business apps.

[Edited to remove tools already included in beta.]

In Chrome, you can type into the Editor's fontName tool to select a font. In IE, however, you can't type in a font, but rather can only select one using the dropdown. It would be good to be able to give the user a consistent experience across browsers. Ideally that would mean allowing them to type in a font in IE, but if that is not possible it would be good to be able to configure/turn off the ability to type in the control in Chrome and other browsers.

Inserting a new table in the editor in IE ignores the current cursor position and adds the table as the first element. If you add a new table, this will be added in the first cell of the first table.

The .value() function on the Editor control strips out some elements from the Editor HTML. For instance, tables created in the Editor have a BR tag inside the table cells, but those BR tags are removed from the string returned by .value().

In order to display HTML exactly the same as it appears in the Editor, it would be useful to have an additional function, perhaps call it .rawValue(), that does not strip out these elements. For instance, with the BR example, if a row does not have any content the row will collapse without the BRs, so it would be nice to have an additional function that leaves them in.

Mobile Date & Time Pickers would allow much easier use for inputting dates and times into a mobile ui.  The web date & time pickers use a drop down that is not the best solution for mobile use.

This is quite important especially in finance where we would want to overlay graphs with other graphs data for analysis.

Also would be good to enhance the controls to have more functionality such as min\max lines etc.

I need to create this ...

        ''' <summary>
        ''' Gets all categories
        ''' </summary>
        ''' <param name="categoryName">Category name</param>
        ''' <param name="pageIndex">Page index</param>
        ''' <param name="pageSize">Page size</param>
        ''' <param name="showHidden">A value indicating whether to show hidden records</param>
        ''' <returns>Categories</returns>
        Public Overridable Function GetCategories(Optional categoryName As String = "", Optional pageIndex As Integer = 0, Optional pageSize As Integer = Integer.MaxValue, Optional showHidden As Boolean = False) As IPagedList(Of Category) Implements ICategoryService.GetCategories
            Dim query = _categoryRepository.SelectOne
            If Not showHidden Then
                query = query.Where(Function(c) c.Published)
            End If
            If Not [String].IsNullOrWhiteSpace(categoryName) Then
                query = query.Where(Function(c) c.Name.Contains(categoryName))
            End If
            query = query.Where(Function(c) Not c.Deleted)
            query = query.OrderBy(Function(c) c.ParentCategoryId).ThenBy(Function(c) c.DisplayOrder)

            If Not showHidden Then
                'ACL (access control list)
                Dim allowedRolesIds = Ctx.CurrentUser.Roles.Where(Function(cr) cr.Active).[Select](Function(cr) cr.EntityId).ToList()
				query = From c In query Join acl In _aclRepository.SelectOne On _
				    New With { _
					 .c1 = c.EntityId, _
					 .c2 = "Category" _
				 Equals acl Select Var = acl
				} = New With { _
					 .c1 = acl.EntityId, _
					 .c2 = acl.EntityName _
				} Into c_acl From acl In c_acl.DefaultIfEmpty() Where Not c.SubjectToAcl OrElse allowedRolesIds.Contains(acl.RoleId) Select c

                'Store mapping
                Dim currentStoreId = _storeContext.CurrentStore.EntityId
				query = From c In query Join sm In _storeMappingRepository.SelectOne On _
				    New With { _
					 .c1 = c.EntityId, _
					 .c2 = "Category" _
				 Equals sm Select Var2 = sm
				} = New With { _
					 .c1 = sm.EntityId, _
					 .c2 = sm.EntityName _
				} Into c_sm From sm In c_sm.DefaultIfEmpty() Where Not c.LimitedToStores OrElse currentStoreId = sm.StoreId Select c

                'only distinct categories (group by ID)
				query = From cGroup In From c In query Group c By c.EntityId  Into cGroup.Key cGroup.FirstOrDefault()
                query = query.OrderBy(Function(c) c.ParentCategoryId).ThenBy(Function(c) c.DisplayOrder)
            End If

            Dim unsortedCategories = query.ToList()

            'sort categories
            Dim sortedCategories = unsortedCategories.SortCategoriesForTree()

            'paging
            Return New PagedList(Of Category)(sortedCategories, pageIndex, pageSize)
        End Function


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Your Kendo UI demos are useful, however they lack a basic overview to orientate new comers as to the specifics.  More importantly I would find it useful, and it would be more thorough, to provide examples in both Razor and JavaScript Syntaxes.

The Kendo UI Forums have limited usefulness, do not seem to be consistently monitored for new questions, there isn't a useful tagging or categorization structure.  The search engine does a poor job of identifying similar questions / answers.  There is no easy way to link Questions together and/or mark duplicates.  The Forum site goes down from time to time, given the extremely limited documentation, this leaves developers without reliable information readily available.

All of these shortcomings (which are more than adequately addressed by Stack Overflow) result in a fractured support and documentation infrastructure for Kendo UI.  

Migrating all unpaid support away from the forums to Stackoverflow will dramatically improve the experience.