If you're like me, you sometimes use AJAX controls in your web page. And, if you're like me, you find that when they fail to behave as expected, you as the user are not notified as to the reason. Instead, the page will just stare back at you blankly: no spinning globe, no twirling fox to indicate that it is processing your request. Of course, what's really happened is that your AJAX request caused an unhandled exception on the server and the request was canceled. If you're like me (and if you've read this far I am forced to conclude ...

We, at Falafel Software, are very excited that for the second year in a row, Telerik training has won the ASP.NET PRO Readers’ Choice Award for Training.  This year is extra special as the award went to the Telerik Trainer, a WPF based training tool Falafel developed for Telerik and has been gaining tremendous success and adaptability in the market since its release last year.  Microsoft Germany has standardized on Telerik Trainer for all their Visual Studio Express offering on the MS Germany site. Since 2006, Falafel Software has been providing all Telerik training & Consulting worldwide ...

Once again I’m sharing some tips and tricks for the Telerik RadGridView control; this time for your combobox editors inside the grid.  The RadGridView makes it very easy to add combobox columns to your grids, and with these tips you can get an even smoother user experience.

For these examples, I’m using a sample form that uses some GridViewComboBoxColumns for the day of week and month fields.

Combobox dropdowns are great, but what if you want your users to be able to clear the field, and even assign a null value that you will store in your database?  If the ...

Tomorrow, May 27th 2009 from 9:30-11:00am PST, Falafel Software is holding a webinar on Data Driven Testing in TestComplete 7.0. The agenda for the webinar is as follows:

1. CSV population of data
2. Excel population of data
3. MS SQL Server population of Data
4. Windows and Web examples
5. Driver methods versus iteration methods in DDT
6. Realistic example of using DDT to solve real problems.

If you’re interested you can sign up here. The cost of the webinar is $29.

Julia Lerman’s book on Entity Framework is out and is recommended to learn the ins and outs of this beast. The picture below was taken with Julia at TechED 2009 in Los Angeles.  Julia and I speak in different cities around the world on .NET topics.  Congratulations Julia! on the release of the book and the hard work that was put into writing it.

It seems like Microsoft has teams cranking out frameworks left right and center.. the Common Application Blocks, the MVC Framework, and today I came across Microsoft's new .NET RIA Service Framework.

What does it do? A lot! It provides a complete framework for an n-tier Silverlight application that fetches data from some back end store, binds it to the UI, manipulates it and writes it back.

It is a crafty combination of metadata, naming conventions, code generation and classes that helps you wire up the plumbing and handle tasks like change detection, validation, authorization in a very straight forward manner. ...