Telerik blogs
  • People

    Speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit

    I’ll be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit from April 20-23 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. This will be my second time to the GIDS and it will be hard to top last year’s adventure of Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight, but I will try. I will be speaking on .NET day on: Business Intelligence Design Patterns: BI Made Easy! Sharing Code between .NET and Silverlight (This is mostly on SL 3.0, but will I show how you can do it with SL 4.0 too, which is *much* easier!) On web day I will be speaking about: Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0 Sessions are only...
    January 26, 2010
  • Release

    Reporting Q1 2010 Roadmap

    Last week we published the Telerik Reporting roadmap. Our plans for Q1 2010 (and for 2010 in general) are to give the developer a reporting tool with greater calculating power that will allow for full control over the data management and presentation. Review the Telerik Reporting Roadmap.   The other product roadmaps are also publicly available: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX RadControls for ASP.NET MVC RadControls for WinForms RadControls for Silverlight RadControls for WPF OpenAccess ORM
    January 25, 2010
  • Productivity Reporting

    Show off your reports and shine (Telerik Reporting contest)

    We are running a Reporting case-study contest with cool prizes! Share how Telerik Reporting has helped you in the work you do, what problems/impediments it solved for you, and how Telerik made a difference, and you could win a $500 Amazon gift certificate! For extra exposure of your work, all case studies will be published on our site, and the winner will get the opportunity to publish a video case study of their project on TelerikTV. All you need to do to enter is send a case study on a working Telerik Reporting project that you have developed. The three most interesting case studies...
    January 25, 2010
  • Release

    New Feature: RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF now can export totals to Excel, ExcelML, Word and CSV

    I’m happy to inform you that with our latest internal build you will be able to export the grid totals in all supported formats: Check the attached demo application & enjoy! Download ...
    January 25, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Resolving circular references when binding the MVC Grid

    Sometimes when performing ajax databinding with the MVC grid you may end up with unexpected result: server error 500. What is even stranger is that server-side binding works as expected with the same data binding code. Let’s demystify this problem: The problem You will see the following  if you use FireBug or Fiddler to inspect the response: The error message is “A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type” followed by some type. If you google this up you will find out that this exception is thrown by the JavaScriptSerializer class because of circular references detected. “What the heck is a...
    January 25, 2010
  • People

    Speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit

    I’ll be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit from April 20-23 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. This will be my second time to the GIDS and it will be hard to top last year’s adventure of Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight, but I will try. I will be speaking on .NET day on: Business Intelligence Design Patterns: BI Made Easy! Sharing Code between .NET and Silverlight (This is mostly on SL 3.0, but will I show how you can do it with SL 4.0 too, which is *much* easier!) On web day I will be speaking about: Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0 Sessions are only...
    January 26, 2010
  • Release

    Reporting Q1 2010 Roadmap

    Last week we published the Telerik Reporting roadmap. Our plans for Q1 2010 (and for 2010 in general) are to give the developer a reporting tool with greater calculating power that will allow for full control over the data management and presentation. Review the Telerik Reporting Roadmap.   The other product roadmaps are also publicly available: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX RadControls for ASP.NET MVC RadControls for WinForms RadControls for Silverlight RadControls for WPF OpenAccess ORM
    January 25, 2010
  • Productivity Reporting

    Show off your reports and shine (Telerik Reporting contest)

    We are running a Reporting case-study contest with cool prizes! Share how Telerik Reporting has helped you in the work you do, what problems/impediments it solved for you, and how Telerik made a difference, and you could win a $500 Amazon gift certificate! For extra exposure of your work, all case studies will be published on our site, and the winner will get the opportunity to publish a video case study of their project on TelerikTV. All you need to do to enter is send a case study on a working Telerik Reporting project that you have developed. The three most interesting case studies...
    January 25, 2010
  • Release

    New Feature: RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF now can export totals to Excel, ExcelML, Word and CSV

    I’m happy to inform you that with our latest internal build you will be able to export the grid totals in all supported formats: Check the attached demo application & enjoy! Download ...
    January 25, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Resolving circular references when binding the MVC Grid

    Sometimes when performing ajax databinding with the MVC grid you may end up with unexpected result: server error 500. What is even stranger is that server-side binding works as expected with the same data binding code. Let’s demystify this problem: The problem You will see the following  if you use FireBug or Fiddler to inspect the response: The error message is “A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type” followed by some type. If you google this up you will find out that this exception is thrown by the JavaScriptSerializer class because of circular references detected. “What the heck is a...
    January 25, 2010