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    Creating a WCF RIA Services Application

    With the release of WCF RIA Services, Microsoft has made it much easier to implement multi-tier Silverlight based applications. Data resides in a database on the server and is accessible through the use of an ORM such as Entity Framework or OpenAccess. WCF RIA Services takes care of moving this data between the server and the client application by using Domain Services in conjunction with the ORM. As you may already know, Telerik Reporting includes a WCF based service responsible for rendering and serving up reports. This service however, is not based on WCF RIA Services, so a few ...
    September 08, 2010
  • Desktop WPF

    How to use RadTransitionControl for navigation

    The RadTransitionControl can be very useful when you want to switch between controls. In this blog post I will explain two common scenarios: 1) Switching between 2 UserControls, which is applicable for both WPF and Silverlight and 2) Creating attractive navigation between pages very easy, applicable for Silverlight.   Now, point-by-point: 1)   For this approach you will need to create 2 UserControls. In the root page define a RadTransitionControl and give it a x:Name. Then, on a button click change the Content property of the TransitionControl with the chosen UserControl.  Here you can find attached you will find a simple WPF example of the above-mentioned technique. 2) For the second scenario we need to create...
    August 12, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadRibbonBar - Keyboard navigation using Key tips

    The Keyboard navigation major feature is now available with the Q2 ServicePack1 release. You can start using it immediately in WPF and Silverlight and as a result enhance your application’s Usability and Accessibility. Try it yourself. The API The API is pretty straight-forward. First you should enable Key tips, for the instance of a RadRibbonBar, with simple attached property like follows. <telerik:RadRibbonBar telerik:KeyTipService.IsKeyTipsEnabled="True"> Then you can attach key tip text to every component in the RadRibbonBar with simple line of code. <telerik:ApplicationMenu telerik:KeyTipService.AccessText="F">  Some components need alternative key tip activation text like the RibbonGroup. Foe example one could be used for the DialogLauncher button and one for the group itself, when the group...
  • Desktop WinForms

    Explained: RadGridView for WinForms virtualization and its implications. The case with CellElement and RowElement

    As the Logical vs. Visual Grid Structure help article states, RadGridView for WinForms uses virtualization for its cells/rows and as of Q2 2010 there is column virtualization as well. What is virtualization? To put it simply, when you bind RadGridView to a DataTable with 1000 rows, you get 1000 data row objects created in RadGridView (of type GridViewDataRowInfo). However, not all data row objects can be visible at the same time in the RadGridView estate in your application. This is why only the visual rows that can be shown in the estate get created (these visual rows are of type GridDataRowElement), or about...
  • Desktop WinForms

    New goodies in RadGridView for WinForms: Drag and drop with RadGridViewDragDropService

    One of the new goodies that came with RadGridView Q2 2010 is the brand new drag and drop API, which offers a very flexible way to create custom drag and drop scenarios with ease. Each instance of RadGridView is associated with RadGridViewDragDropService that handles user drag and drop operations. It gives you out-of-the-box reordering of columns and movement of items between the group panel and the columns header. The service is also responsible for rows reordering in unbound mode when grouping and sorting features are not applied. In many cases, developers need to implement complex custom scenarios that are not covered by our products by default....