The Telerik Silverlight teams have released various demo applications together with hundreds of examples to help you get started more easily with RadControls for Silverlight. The newest demo application, the Weather Station, will not only show you how to bind the Telerik Silverlight data visualization controls to real-time data, thus creating interactive and engaging user experience, but it might also help you win an Xbox 360. All you have to do to participate in the “What’s the temperature?” game is to:  Launch the Weather Station application Check the weather in your city Tweet the temperature and the name of your city. Use...

Whether you have just installed the new release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM or downloaded a demo that has been built with an older version of our tool, you most certainly have had to remove and add again your OpenAccess references in your existing projects. In order to make it easier we have provided the option of doing this automatically. However it seems like this functionality has not been found by too many users. It can be found in the OpenAccess menu Telerik -> OpenAccess -> Upgrade References. Executing this will, in a second, upgrade all the references to OpenAccess in all...

If you are creating OData or WCF services in your application and have been using the Telerik Data Services Wizard, things just got a whole lot easier. As I have shown before, you can go from File|New to a new CRUD application in 30 seconds using the wizard. With the Q3 release last month, Telerik gives you more control over the wizard and its output. Some of the new features are: the ability to isolate your service in its own project, the ability to select which CRUD methods gets created for each entity, and Silverlight data validation. Let’s take a look. When you run the wizard, on its first...

Since Q3 2010 we have introduced new drag mode, enabling native drag from and to your WPF applications. In this post I will show how to successfully perform drag drop operations from external program into your application through the RadDragAndDropManager API. This can be achieved in several easy steps:   1. Set RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag=”true”. This will enable native operations (if your application runs in full trust). The easiest way to do this is set it in StartUp event.           private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)         {             RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag = true;         }   2. Set the RadDragAndDropManager properties to enable the drop operation:   telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.AllowDrop="True" telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.DropQuery="FileListGrid_DropQuery" telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.DropInfo="FileListGrid_DropInfo"   and add the corresponding...

If you are currently invested in LINQ to SQL and want to upgrade to Telerik OpenAccess ORM, with the new OpenAccess Q3 release you can do this quite easily. There is a new wizard included with OpenAccess that will automatically convert your LINQ to SQL classes to Telerik LINQ classes. Let’s take a look. I’ll start with a simple project that has a simple LINQ to SQL model in it: Northwind.dbml. It is mapped to the Northwind database tables. I created a simple web form that has a GridView on it. I decided that I would try to stump the wizard by writing a complex LINQ...