With the 2010 Q1 SP1 release of Telerik Reporting we have introduced Self-Hosted Reporting WCF Service. In the following blog we are explaining how to use our new feature. First lets highlight the advantages of the Self-Hosted services: Easy to use: With only a few lines of code you have your service running. Easy to debug: Debugging WCF services that are hosted in a self-hosted environment provides a familiar way of debugging, without having to attach to separate applications that activate your service. Easy to deploy. Flexible: You can easily control the lifetime of your services. Supports all bindings and transport. For the service...

We are excited to take part in the premier testing event of the year – StarEast, which takes place in Orlando, Florida, April 25-30. Telerik is a platinum sponsor and exhibitor of this year’s conference. Watch Telerik booth @ StarEast on video See more photos Telerik team will be showcasing our recently introduced automated testing tools (The official premiere of Telerik new automated testing division took place at DevConnections a couple of weeks ago – watch it on Telerik TV). If you plan to be at StarEast, make sure to stop by Telerik booth #10 for a live ...

One of the most-asked questions when it comes to the ASP.NET Ajax RadGrid is "How do I improve performance?". We have covered this in some Webinars and videos that can be found on Telerik TV in a series which has been released in three parts: Part One, Part Two and Part Three. One thing I wanted to bring up with respect to performance is the usage of LINQ (Language Integrated Query) and our RadGrid. Although LINQ has been out since the initial release of .NET 3.5 I still receive quite a few questions when it comes to using it with our...

Task-It Series This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post. Communicating between components In any Silverlight application there are going to be times when you want to communicate between different components in your app. These could be UserControls, view model classes, whatever. To do this you need a framework for...

Last time we looked at the basics of JustCode color identifiers. In this blog I will go a bit more in-depth about each of the available markers. There are quite a few, and we will be adding more as we mature JustCode.    What Do All of Those Markers DO? There are many markers listed in the “Display Item” list view, and you might not immediately know what some of these affect in the UI. That is why I have come up with this “cheat sheet” explaining each setting. Note: This code snippet contains at least one of every item JustCode colorizes. I turned off...