The Q3 2009 release is now in the past, but the newly introduced features are here to stay. Although the newly introduced JustCode productivity tool stirred quite a bit of excitement at PDC and in our forums, it cannot yet shade the native Silverlight support for reports created with Telerik Reporting. Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer Although there are several Silverlight viewer implementations out there, most notably for SQL Reporting Services, there is no reporting product that offers true native support for Silverlight. The Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer is designed to render Telerik Reports within Silverlight projects (see demos). The Silverlight viewer uses the same rendering...

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,6dc8d165-8853-45d1-8ff2-99306775262b.aspx";digg_title = "Keeping a Product Launch Secret";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Last week at PDC, Telerik launched a new product named JustCode. It was a stunning success since we had a lot of people show up for the launch and we gave away 1,000 free licenses at the event. Back in March at a planning meeting at Telerik HQ, we decided that we would embark on an Apple style “secret” strategy and go for the most buzz at launch. Back at that meeting in March we decided that secrecy, which goes against a lot of our values at Telerik, would be required for the most buzz at the launch. But keeping a secret is not easy in the world of Twitter,...

Mr. David Burns recently raised a pretty good question – is testing elegant? He lists a couple of examples how testing is far from elegant. The simple scenario he mentioned in relation to test automation brought my full attention – imagine a change in an element being used in many tests (could be a simple ID change, or any attribute modification for example). In such a case you may end up with a lot of failing tests and well, you should be extra careful even if any “global replace” is an option with your framework/tool. In this post I’d like ...

Last week we released a new internal build for Telerik Reporting which addresses several important issues, including the "The expression contains object 'Item' that is not defined in the current context." error when binding to an list/array of objects. Check the Release Notes and get the latest internal build from the Latest Internal Builds area (log in required)....

In case you missed it, there is a new internal build available for download for RadControls for WinForms. Among the several fixes that this build comes with, you will find a fixed issue in RadScheduler with the all day header area when the scheduler is in Week view. Another important fix is in RadTabStrip, where under certain conditions the children of the TabItem.ContentPanel became hidden. Check the Release Notes and get the latest internal build from the Latest Internal Builds area (log in required).

by Nikolay Diyanov

November 20, 2009 Share