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1. 1 D.P. 18 Sep 2012
   What about the destroy methods for SPA? Are those in the SP? I saw them in the changelog only for DataWiz. Any example usage? I cant find anything in the documentation about this.
2. 2 Stefan Rahnev 19 Sep 2012
   Indeed there was an omission in the formal release notes about this method implementation for the Web widgets. The release log has already been corrected and you can view it here:
   http://www.kendoui.com/web/whats-new/release-notes/q2-2012-sp1-version-2012-2-913.aspx
   
   You can read more about the destroy methods by performing the following search in the documentation:
   http://docs.kendoui.com/search/?indexCatalogue=alldocs&searchQuery=destroy&wordsMode=0
   
   
3. 3 Todd 19 Sep 2012
   Dude, if all you're going to do is link us to a search for the word "destroy" and call that "documentation"...then I wouldn't even bother.  Is the "destroy" functionality (removing a widget, not deleting a record) even mentioned in the formal documentation?
4. 4 Stefan Rahnev 20 Sep 2012
   It is, Todd, rather briefly. Here are a few links from the search query that can get you started:
   
   http://docs.kendoui.com/documentation/api/web/rangeslider#methods
   http://docs.kendoui.com/documentation/api/web/slider#methods
   http://docs.kendoui.com/documentation/api/dataviz/lineargauge#methods
   http://docs.kendoui.com/documentation/api/web/upload#methods
   http://docs.kendoui.com/documentation/api/web/window#methods
   
   We will do our best to document the destroy method for all widgets which support it with the next updates of the online docs.
   
5. 5 roger reynolds 08 Oct 2012
   Noticed that one of the main sources of diffs between  kendoui.complete.2012.2.710.commercial and  kendoui.complete.2012.2.913_commercial is that nearly all comments have been removed from the js files in the source folder.
   Not complaining - i am not a fan of embedding documentation in the source code.  Hoping that this is signaling some much needed progress in the area of documentation which, frankly, is pretty awful
6. 6 Stefan Rahnev 08 Oct 2012
   @Roger: Indeed some of the comments (not all though) have been removed or updated since the source code has been modified due to features and fixes included in the service pack. Still the important information should be kept in the source as comments.
   
   Concerning the documentation - I assume you already browsed and familiarized with the new docs v2.0 here: http://docs.kendoui.com/ , correct? If you would like to propose additional content for documentation, or you want to point areas which are weak in its current version, please direct your feedback to my colleague, Brandon Satrom (brandon.satrom@kendoui.com).
7. 7 roger reynolds 08 Oct 2012
   Well that isn't the way it looks.
   Looking at the files in the source\js folder, and not a one has documentation style comments.   There are a very few code comments, but no doco. 
   
8. 8 Dennis Puzak 22 Oct 2012
   Ummm to the Kendo team. You guys totaly missed the point with the documentaiton. Ever since you did the 2.0 docs everyone from your team seems to be going like oh yeah, we did a lot about the documentation, look at this new 2.0. it has a great interface. 
   
   Nobody minded the old interface. The problem was that so many things, even basic ones are undocumented, or the documentation is laking (missing a basic list of the possible paramters for a configuration method for instance) or there are just no examples. The demos havent really been updated that much since the start. There are no demos for a lot of the basic stuff. For instance, the Kendo Pager is heavily undocumented and it has no demos.
   
   I keep trying to find a feature that I think to myself, oh come on, it has to be there. Then I don't find it. Then i search the forum, lose a lot of time and find a thread about the feature and find it's never mentioned anywhere in the documentation.
   
   
9. 9 Stefan Rahnev 01 Nov 2012
   I am sorry to hear that you finding gaps in our current documentation. We are constantly striving to improve and enhance the content in it. I suggest you contact our PM, Brandon Satrom, at brandon@kendoui.com with regards to any constructive feedback you have concerning the Kendo UI documentation.