Similar to this post, I’ve made small example on how to load on demand RadGridView for Silverlight three level hierarchy using MVVM and OData service:   XAML <telerik:RadGridView ItemsSource="{Binding CustomersCollection}" AutoGenerateColumns="False"> <telerik:RadGridView.Columns> … </telerik:RadGridView.Columns> <telerik:RadGridView.ChildTableDefinitions> <telerik:GridViewTableDefinition /> </telerik:RadGridView.ChildTableDefinitions> <telerik:RadGridView.HierarchyChildTemplate> <DataTemplate> <telerik:RadGridView ItemsSource="{Binding OrdersCollection}" AutoGenerateColumns="False"> ...

The first release of TeamPulse used Microsoft's Rich Text control to enable rich formatting inside the Story, Persona and Acceptance Criteria descriptions. It offered a good variety of basic formatting options, but nothing like what is now offered by upgrading to the RadRichTextBox control. By using the RadRichTextBox, we effectively have a mini word processor built right into TeamPulse allowing you to create even richer descriptions.   Getting Started What? You don't see the Text Tools contextual tab? Click your mouse inside any of the rich text fields in TeamPulse and you'll see the contextual tab appear in the application's ...

As most of the people doing XAML development already know Silverlight 4 shipped at Mix 10 this year. This official release contained a lot of issues (memory leaks included) and it was a reasonable decision for Microsoft to postpone their GDR (general distribution release – the one that comes with Windows Update) version. A few weeks ago, Microsoft finally shipped the GDR. One of the things all developers hoped for was a resolution to the known memory leaks. The GDR did fix a lot of memory leaks, however, it did not address all of them and there are still some...

Today, I happen to find an interesting post on mocking SharePoint context using TypeMock. Being a JustMocker, i thought rather to follow the footsteps and see if can do the same with JustMock. I am no SharePoint expert. Occasionally, I use a Windows 2003 VM with SharePoint server installed which gives me the required flavor of SharePoint for testing  SP capabilities of JM. Anyway, here is the original post that i am going to recycle using JustMock. http://meronymy.blogspot.com/2010/09/mocking-spcontextcurrent-with-typemock.html   The scenario here is pretty simple. There is a method that returns an URL from the current SPContext which i am going to mock in order...

[repost from Stephen Forte's Blog]   See also: Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse independent of cubes/a BI system and in Part II we looked at how to architect a data warehouse’s table schema. Today we are going to look at where to put your data warehouse tables. Let’s look at the location of your data warehouse. Usually as your system matures, it follows this pattern: Segmenting your data warehouse tables into their own isolated schema inside of the OLTP database Moving the data warehouse...