Stretching a RadGrid to 100% of the browser height can show as "squashed" when the grid is AJAX-enabled. Even without AJAX involved, stretching RadGrid requires setting the grid Height to "100%" and the Height style of all parent controls to "100%".  Setting RadGrid Height alone outputs this disappointing view where the data is squashed to a single text line.

You'll see this same "compact" view of the data in IE, FireFox ,Chrome and Safari. Add the style below to set HTML, Body and Form tags height to 100% and hide margin, padding and scrollbars.

<style  type="text/css">
    ...

Apple does a lot of neat things with images in iOS, and many times we get the benefits of shiny, chrome-like effects on our images without really doing anything.

If you create a new tabbed application in XCode, the default setup will give you two tabs, with square and round images in the tab bar for the tabs.

Note the shiny blue appearance of the selected tab.  So, what do the original images look like?  Pretty boring, actually:  just a plain black circle and square.

Wow, that's a quite a difference.  Pretty cool, right?  I thought so too.  But then ...

In a previous post we outlined how to use KendoUI JavaScript Framework with Sitefinity. We defined our base class to utilize for the the coming KendoUI Sitefinity widgets. We also implemented the Kendo Panel Bar and showcased how to bind it to our Sitefinity content using server-side code.

In this post we are going to take a step further. First, we will illustrate how to employ the various themes that are available out-of-the-box with KendoUI and how to command the look and feel of the various KendoUI controls. Afterwords, we will create our first real Sitefinity widget.

KendoUI controls are ...

It has been over a year now that our team has been working with Sitefinity 4.x, from the first release of 4.0 through the other 9 releases and patches through 2011.

To say the least it has been a very painful year for Falafel to work with Sitefinity 4 and I can add that it has been equally or even more painful for the Sitefinity team at Telerik to go through this painful year with numerous punches from customers, media and experts all the over the place, but most painful probably from their own partners.

From the pricing change ...

The Sencha Designer 2 Beta is a full-on IDE for MVC based JavaScript applications built over Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch frameworks. That's a lot of acronyms for one sentence, so allow me to recap. Sencha Ext JS is a framework for building rich JavaScript applications complete with all the goodies we've come to expect like data grids, trees, charts, windows, tabs and so on. Sencha Touch does the same thing for mobile applications.

In this blog, we'll take a look at the environment and build a simple data-bound grid.

Sencha Designer 2 brings a visual designer with a ...

Silverlight provides a robust development environment and a rich user experience, but one shortcoming becomes evident when users ask "why can't I highlight and copy text in the application?"  Unlike standard web pages, when you use the Silverlight TextBlock, the text is inaccessible to the user and behaves almost like it is a background image.

There are several ways to remedy this, including building a custom control, but the simplest solution I've found is to use a TextBox control (which allows users to select and copy text) and style it to look like a TextBlock.  To do this, create a ...

With mobile getting all the love lately, I thought I would give back to the desktop community. I showed how to build a mobile web app using Sencha Touch 2 and MVC. Now I will do the same with a desktop web app using Ext JS.

Below is a miniature demo consisting of products, categories, and manufacturers. It is a real MVC-licious Javascript app written in Ext JS 4.1:

Let us dissect this app into the following sections: routing, controllers and views. I will leave out models and stores because they are pretty self-explanatory when you see the ...

I’ve been looking at several alternate reality application ideas and how to best show the real world on the phone. It’s easy to get the camera preview to show up in a WP7 application, but sometimes you want to maximize the camera preview in the screen. One problem is that the camera preview is a different size and aspect ratio than the WP7 screen. The size differences are illustrated below.

The WP7 screen is 480x800 and the camera preview is 480x640. If you want to show controls, then you can use the extra space at the top and bottom. ...

The Windows Phone is about to take off like a rocket, beat the competition and get on board now with Windows Phone development training from Falafel Software.

In 2012, sales of 40 million Windows Phones are expected. By 2015, multiple research firms expect Windows Phone to overtake iPhone for the #2 spot in smartphone market share. For individuals looking to monetize a mobile application, it is essential to enter this growing market now. For organizations thinking about their mobile strategy, Windows Phone now must to be part of that discussion. Once you see how easy it is to build ...

If you missed my blog about showing the WP7 magnetometer in 3D with an XNA/Silverlight application, you can read about it by clicking here. We are in the process of putting this application in the Marketplace so you’ll be able to check it out on your phone shortly. One of the steps in the Marketplace process is coming up with screenshots of the application. You can always use the screen capture option in the Windows Phone Emulator; however, in this case it was going to take some code to emulate the magnetometer sensor. Figuring out how to take screen ...

Falafel Software strengthens advisory board with the addition of Microsoft MVP Richard Campbell.

Capitola, CA  February 13th, 2012 - Falafel Software today announced the appointment of Microsoft MVP Richard Campbell to its advisory board. Mr. Campbell brings over 30 years of technical and entrepreneurial experience to the position. As one of the hosts of the internet radio programs “RunAs Radio”, “.NET Rocks” and “The Tablet Show”, Mr. Campbell is one of the most recognizable voices in the Microsoft development community. He also serves as a Microsoft Regional Director, has authored over 500 technical articles and is a regular speaker at ...

In this video, I wish to demonstrate the ability of changing the default workflow in Sitefinity using Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0.  The video is based on the code provided by the Sitefinity SDK here

In the following video, I will demonstrate the ability to do the same from a class library referenced from outside of the Sitefinity Project file system as well.

Please let us know if this video was useful to you and if you would like to see more information and demos on Custom Workflows in the future.

Update: New! We turned this concept into the first MVC based marketplace add-on for Sitefinity 5.1! Get the the ListBrowser with source from our store.

"Kendo UI is an HTML5, jQuery-based framework for building modern web apps. The framework features more than a dozen UI components, including a Grid and Chart, and all of the tools needed for a HTML5 app development, such as Data Binding, Templating, Drag-and-Drop API, and more."

Telerik's KendoUI has been around for a while and many of us got hands on the Beta last summer and I was really thrilled when I started ...

Whoever attended the latest Sitefinity Webinar regarding the Module Builder is already intimate with the list of enhancements that will come for the Module Builder with the new Sitefinity 5 release scheduled for end of February.

As a part of these enhancements, the new Module Builder will include a module Import and Export functionality to ease the process of sharing modules between developers and moving them between different environments.

While digging into the Module Builder's API, I was able to find traces of the Module Builder's Importer and Exporter. The reality is, they do exist today in Sitefinity 4.4. We ...