Weekly Dose of Telerik Support Resources 04/09/2013

JustTrace

Understanding .NET Garbage Collection
Every program needs memory. Unfortunately, memory is finite. This article will explain you how GC can help you on the matter.

JustMock

Executing JustMock tests via the Command Prompt
This topic demonstrates how to execute Telerik JustMock test DLLs with cmd.exe.

JustCode

JustCode Delivers Again! Painless Unit Testing in WinJS Applications
Detailed introduction to new unit testing feature.

Kendo UI For ASP.NET MVC

New Kendo UI Widget: The Tooltip
This tutorial demonstrates how to work with the new ToolTip widget.

Hijacking .toJSON For Fun And Profit
In this blog post shows how to produce a custom JSON document for any JavaScript object, no matter what framework is serializing the object.

Telerik OpenAccess ORM

Using Encrypted Connection Strings with OpenAccess ORM
This article demonstrates how you can use encrypted connection strings with Telerik OpenAccess ORM within your web applications.

Telerik Reporting

New resources this week:
Telerik Reporting in MVC? Sure. It takes 8 quick steps.
Blog post describing how to use the ASP.NET ReportViewer control in your MVC4 application.

Digging into the Telerik Reporting Graph Item - structure
Blog post covering basics on structuring the new Graph item introduced in Telerik Reporting Q1 2013.

Digging into the Telerik Reporting Graph Item - Connecting to data
Blog post covering basics on organizing and supplying data to the new Graph item introduced in Telerik Reporting Q1 2013.

Graph
New category in our online help explaining how to utilize the new Graph item introduced in Telerik Reporting Q1 2013.

Trending forum questions:
Errors after upgrading to Q1 2013
How to upgrade to Telerik Reporting Q1 2013 successfully.

Sitefinity

Data layer
Post-Webinar Post: OpenAccess Integration in Sitefinity
Provides a review of our OpenAccess Integration with Sitefinity webinar and lists the Q & A

Mobile Builder
Filtering Sitefinity DynamicContentView on the frontend
Explains how you can achieve frontend dynamic filtering for Sitefinity ModuleBuilder widgets, by extending the DynamicContentView class

Integrating GoogleMaps with Sitefinity DynamicModules
Shows how you can integrate GoogleMaps with Siteifnity ModuleBuilder to add markers for your items on a single map in ListView

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

Common
Drawing and Image Filters in Telerik’s Image Editor for ASP.NET AJAX
Blog post about new features in RadImageEditor

Different ways to make a request to the server in ASP.NET
New blog post describing the different ways to make a request to the server. In this post you can also find some benefits and peculiarities they have.

Visual StyleBuilder
Known Issues, Tips and Tricks
New help article providing tips and tricks as well as any known issues related to the Visual StyleBuilder.

RadWindow
Modal Popup
New demo about the Modal feature of RadWindow

HTML5 Chart
Client-side Binding
New demo about the client-side databinding feature of the RadHtmlChart control RadSocial Share

Standard third party buttons
Updated demo with Pinterest buttons

RadRating
Broken skin when loading the RadRating via AJAX
New article about loading the skin of a RadRating when the control is added on the page through AJAX

PersistenceFramework
Custom Storage Provider
In this example you can see how to preserve the state of RadGrid using a custom storage provider.

RadGrid
Known Limitations
New help article which includes the known limitations of RadGrid control.

RadDropDownTree
NodeDataBound
The article provides an example of how to set a node from the tree in the dropdown as selected by using the CreateEntry() property

Expand Node On Single Click
The article describes the new functionality of the RadDropDownTree

Delimiters
New help article that describes the new functionality of the RadDropDownTree

RadScheduler
AppointmentUpdate
Updated article related to the server side AppointmentUpdate of the RadScheduler

RadControls for Silverlight

Common
Localization
The information about using Built-in resources is updated.

DragDropManager
Create Custom Drag Arrow
This article shows how to create your own drag arrow.

RadAutoCompleteBox
Filtering Behavior
This help article describes how to customize the filtering behavior of the AutoCompleteBox control by creating a custom FilteringBehavior.

RadDataForm
Defining Custom DataFields
This article shows how to define Custom DataFields with RadDataForm

RadDataPager Getting Started
Updated information regarding how to page RadGridView

RadDiagram
Localization
This tutorial describes how to localize RadDiagram and lists its localization strings

RadDocking
CompassProgramming Demo
This demos show how to customize and program the compass in the Docking control.


RadGridView
Grid Export
Added information about warning message when opening the exported file.

Setting default startup language
The information about using Built-in resources is updated.

RadListBox
How to customize the DragVisualProvider
This article describes how to create a custom DragVisualProvider for the RadListBox control.

RadPivotGrid
Export
In this article you will find detailed description how to Export RadPivotGrid to xlsx, docx, pdf and HTML format.

Export demo
In our new "Export" demo for RadPivotGrid you will find out how to export RadPivotGrid to different formats. In the demo you are able to change the layouts of RadPivotGrid and after that to select the output format (MS Excel, MS Word, pdf and HTML). For docx, pdf and HTML format you will see a Print Preview dialog.

CustomHeaderTemplate demo
In our new "Custom Header Template" demo for RadPivotGrid, you will find out how to modify the headers (both rows and columns) of RadPivotGrid to show additional data, for example images for the products.

RadRichTextBox
Watermark
The article describes the Watermark functionality of RadRichTextBox.

Frequently Asked Questions
The article is updated in order to explain the behavior observed when inserting multiple consecutive tables in RadRichTextBox.

Headers and Footers
The update in the topic demonstrates how to disable Headers and Footers.

RadTimeBar
Formatter Provider
This help topic will give an overview on the Formatter Provider feature of RadTimeBar.

RadTimeLine
Formatter Provider
This help topic will give an overview on the Formatter Provider feature of RadTimeline.

RadTimePicker
Header Template
This help article describes how to customize the Header and HeaderTemplate of the RadTimePicker control.

RadControls for WPF

Common
Localization
The information about using Built-in resources is updated.

DragDropManager
Create Custom Drag Arrow
This article shows how to create your own drag arrow.

RadAutoCompleteBox
Filtering Behavior
This help article describes how to customize the filtering behavior of the AutoCompleteBox control by creating a custom FilteringBehavior.

RadDataForm
Defining Custom DataFields
This article shows how to define Custom DataFields with RadDataForm

RadDataPager
Getting Started
Updated information regarding how to page RadGridView

RadDiagram
Localization
This tutorial describes how to localize RadDiagram and lists its localization strings

RadDocking
Docking->CompassProgramming Demo
This demos show how to customize and program the compass in the Docking control.

RadGridView
Grid Export
Added information about warning message when opening the exported file.

Setting default startup language
The information about using Built-in resources is updated.

RadListBox
How to customize the DragVisualProvider
This article describes how to create a custom DragVisualProvider for the RadListBox control.

RadPivotGrid
Export
In this article you will find detailed description how to Export RadPivotGrid to xlsx, docx, pdf and HTML format.

PivotGrid -> Export demo
In our new "Export" demo for RadPivotGrid you will find out how to export RadPivotGrid to different formats. In the demo you are able to change the layouts of RadPivotGrid and after that to select the output format (MS Excel, MS Word, pdf and HTML). For docx, pdf and HTML format you will see a Print Preview dialog.

PivotGrid->CustomHeaderTemplate demo
In our new "Custom Header Template" demo for RadPivotGrid, you will find out how to modify the headers (both rows and columns) of RadPivotGrid to show additional data, for example images for the products.

RadRichTextBox
Watermark
The article describes the Watermark functionality of RadRichTextBox.

Frequently Asked Questions
The article is updated in order to explain the behavior observed when inserting multiple consecutive tables in RadRichTextBox.

Headers and Footers
The update in the topic demonstrates how to disable Headers and Footers.

RadTreeView
Create Windows Explorer Like WPF TreeView
This article is updated to demonstrate a better approach for displaying files structure in the RadTreeView thus creating a WindowsExplorer-like-control.

RadTimeBar
Formatter Provider
This help topic will give an overview on the Formatter Provider feature of RadTimeBar.

RadTimeLine
Formatter Provider
This help topic will give an overview on the Formatter Provider feature of RadTimeline.

RadTimePicker
Header Template
This help article describes how to customize the Header and HeaderTemplate of the RadTimePicker control.

Test Studio

Change Step Target Element
Added page describing workflow to select a new target element for a step from the Elements Repository

RadControls for Windows 8

Common
JustCode Delivers Again! Painless Unit Testing in WinJS Applications
A new blog post describing the WinJS unit testing support offered by the JustCode product.

Prototyping for Windows RT with AppMock
A blog A blog post on the existing and new features of the AppMock application which you can use for prototyping your Windows Store apps.

RadGrid
Access Items and Data (HTML)
A new help article showing how you can access various parts of RadGrid and the data related some of them.

RadControls for WinForms

Latest blog posts
New Service Pack, New Theme. Get WinForms Q1’13 SP1 Update />
RadControls for WinForms Q1 2013 SP1 is now available. Service Pack 1 adds a brand new theme to Telerik’s WinForms suite, as well as brings new improvements to some of the major controls and fixes to the vast majority of reported issues. Check out the highlights below or follow the link to read the entire release notes.