Beside of all the other new neat features the RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX will have with the Q1 2010 release, it will also incorporate built-in filtering capabilities. The control will expose a fluent-like server-side API which can be used to specify filter expression in the following manner:   listView.FilterExpressions.BuildExpression() .GreaterThanOrEqualTo("OrderDate", DateTime.Parse("7/5/1996")) .And() .Group(group => group.EqualTo("ShipCountry", "Germany") .Or().EqualTo("ShipCountry", "France") ...

Hey everybody - Emily from Telerik here! I am Telerik’s Community Program Manager; AKA your go-to geekette for give-a-ways and sponsorships in your community. As you may already know, Telerik is a strong supporter of developer community initiatives. We’ve spent the past few years building a solid schedule of events and groups to sponsor around the globe. This includes: user groups, code camps, community conferences, Saturday events, TechFests, Days of .NET and more. We have active sponsorships in 6 continents and if you are a developer in Antarctica reading this, we’d love to sponsor all 7 continents. Since...

If you have been using RadComboBox frequently in your projects, you have probably written the following or very similar code many times: protected void RadComboBox1_ItemsRequested(object sender, RadComboBoxItemsRequestedEventArgs e) { SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter( "SELECT * from Customers WHERE CompanyName LIKE @text + '%'", ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["NorthwindConnectionString"] .ConnectionString); adapter.SelectCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@text", e.Text); DataTable data = new DataTable(); adapter.Fill(data); int itemOffset = e.NumberOfItems; int endOffset = Math.Min(itemOffset + ItemsPerRequest, data.Rows.Count); e.EndOfItems = endOffset ==...

In this blog post we will create a simple data access layer that allows our UI to interact with our data.

The story of human achievement is almost always one of teamwork. While we celebrate individual accomplishments, like Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon, it is always the team that makes or breaks the effort. I have always been interested in why teams succeed; it is easy to figure out why teams fail. A lot of time we think that we need a team of “Ninjas” in order to succeed, or a superstar team leader. In reality we need neither the Ninja team nor rock star team leader. For better or worse, I have been leading teams for a long time and I maybe a decent...