Telerik blogs
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadCalendar for ASP.NET (AJAX) localization and all the necessary to have culture independent automated tests

    First some background: Recently I’ve been working on an interesting task, which required digging into some details in RadCalendar control localization implementation. Due to a customer bug report, I tested the RadCalendar control in a non-English culture for a specific scenario. I also ran the automated tests we had built for the Calendar control and was shocked at the fact that so many tests simply failed. The reason is that these tests expected some certain Calendar element values, which generally depend on the culture you run the control on. I took the challenge to investigate, implement the necessary methods and ...
    August 29, 2008
  • Release

    Telerik Reporting Q2 2008 SP1 is now live

    Hello People,   My name is Rossen Hristov and I am a developer at the Telerik Reporting team. This is my first post and in it I would like to share some good news with you -- Telerik Reporting Q2 2008 SP1 is now officially live. We have spent the last month or so making sure that most of the issues that you have reported have been addressed carefully. This Service Pack is by far the largest we have delivered in terms of issues fixed and I would like to thank you for the great feedback that you have provided during the past...
    August 28, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Webinar on Tuesday Sept 2nd

    Don't miss the chance to hear Lino Tadros* himself talk about RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX. You can sign up for FREE here.   The 2-hour training will cover the following advanced topics: Grid Calculations (Footer Aggregates, Calculated Columns, etc) Templates (Global Item Template, Nested View Template, Detail Template, etc) Client-Side Functionality (Binding to WebServices, APIs, Items Drag-n-Drop, etc) Boosting Performance with LINQ Tune in on Tuesday, September 2nd @ 9.30AM PDT!   *Lino is the President of Falafel Software and long-time Microsoft .NET MVP with great presentation skills and charisma. P.S. Don't forget that Todd will be ...
    August 28, 2008
  • Release

    New Feature: Full EntityDataSource support in RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    I'm pleased to announce that the next version of RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX will support natively EntityDataSource. All operations like paging, sorting and filtering will be applied directly on the data-base server:   and of course you will able to insert, update and delete records completely codeless. Enjoy! [Download]...
    August 27, 2008
  • Web

    Populating Silverlight TreeView from WCF Service with LINQ to SQL

    In this example I will show you how to populate a RadTreeView using LINQ and WCF. Also you will see how to transform a flat data into a hierarchical one. The target result is: 1. Create a new Silverlight Web Application Project NOTE: Make sure you choose "Web Application Project" After the project loads you can see that besides the regular Silverlight application, Visual Studio adds a Web application that will host the .xap file.   Before writing any LINQ or creating any WCF service, we need a database to target. 2. Right-click on RadTreeViewWithWCFWeb project and add a new item - "SQL Server Database". You can give the...
    August 27, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadCalendar for ASP.NET (AJAX) localization and all the necessary to have culture independent automated tests

    First some background: Recently I’ve been working on an interesting task, which required digging into some details in RadCalendar control localization implementation. Due to a customer bug report, I tested the RadCalendar control in a non-English culture for a specific scenario. I also ran the automated tests we had built for the Calendar control and was shocked at the fact that so many tests simply failed. The reason is that these tests expected some certain Calendar element values, which generally depend on the culture you run the control on. I took the challenge to investigate, implement the necessary methods and ...
    August 29, 2008
  • Release

    Telerik Reporting Q2 2008 SP1 is now live

    Hello People,   My name is Rossen Hristov and I am a developer at the Telerik Reporting team. This is my first post and in it I would like to share some good news with you -- Telerik Reporting Q2 2008 SP1 is now officially live. We have spent the last month or so making sure that most of the issues that you have reported have been addressed carefully. This Service Pack is by far the largest we have delivered in terms of issues fixed and I would like to thank you for the great feedback that you have provided during the past...
    August 28, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Webinar on Tuesday Sept 2nd

    Don't miss the chance to hear Lino Tadros* himself talk about RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX. You can sign up for FREE here.   The 2-hour training will cover the following advanced topics: Grid Calculations (Footer Aggregates, Calculated Columns, etc) Templates (Global Item Template, Nested View Template, Detail Template, etc) Client-Side Functionality (Binding to WebServices, APIs, Items Drag-n-Drop, etc) Boosting Performance with LINQ Tune in on Tuesday, September 2nd @ 9.30AM PDT!   *Lino is the President of Falafel Software and long-time Microsoft .NET MVP with great presentation skills and charisma. P.S. Don't forget that Todd will be ...
    August 28, 2008
  • Release

    New Feature: Full EntityDataSource support in RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    I'm pleased to announce that the next version of RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX will support natively EntityDataSource. All operations like paging, sorting and filtering will be applied directly on the data-base server:   and of course you will able to insert, update and delete records completely codeless. Enjoy! [Download]...
    August 27, 2008
  • Web

    Populating Silverlight TreeView from WCF Service with LINQ to SQL

    In this example I will show you how to populate a RadTreeView using LINQ and WCF. Also you will see how to transform a flat data into a hierarchical one. The target result is: 1. Create a new Silverlight Web Application Project NOTE: Make sure you choose "Web Application Project" After the project loads you can see that besides the regular Silverlight application, Visual Studio adds a Web application that will host the .xap file.   Before writing any LINQ or creating any WCF service, we need a database to target. 2. Right-click on RadTreeViewWithWCFWeb project and add a new item - "SQL Server Database". You can give the...
    August 27, 2008