[repost from Stephen Forte's Blog] See also: Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema Part III: Location of your data warehouse Part IV: Extraction, Transformation, and Load In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse independent of cubes/a BI system and in Part II we looked at how to architect a data warehouse’s table schema. In Part III, we looked at where to put the data warehouse tables. In Part IV, we are going to look at how to populate those tables and keep them in sync with your OLTP system. Today, our last part in this...

Since the introduction of RadMap many customers have expressed a need to load shapefiles onto it.  We are adding native support for shapefiles in the Q3 Release, along with vastly improving the performance of information, and dynamic layers.  However, the beta is still a few weeks away, and I had a need for loading shapefiles this week, so I put this quick example together. How to do it Shapefile parsing in this demo is handled by the reader available in the ESRI Contrib project.  When we make the Q3 release you will be able to switch over to our reader by changing about...

The purpose of this blog post is to show how to incorporate RadChart for Silverlight in an ASP.NET MVC application. Manol has already shown how to do this for ASP.NET and things are not much different for ASP.NET MVC. Let’s start with a simple Silverlight application with a single RadChart. For simplicity, I will populate it with a list of numbers, you can also use any of the techniques, supported by RadChart. The code is as simple as this XAML: <telerik:RadChart x:Name="RadChart1" /> And C#: RadChart1.ItemsSource = new double[] { 3d, 4d, 6d };   I will create two write-only properties of the Silverlight user control -- ShowItemLabels and SeriesType. They are marked with  ScriptableMemberAttribute so...

We are happy to announce the availability of the second Q2 service pack of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and the first service pack of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (Commercial version) for Q2 2010. These are expected maintenance releases for both product lines and, naturally, contain bug fixes and minor enhancements. The download packages are available from the Telerik client accounts here and here. For a complete list of what is included in the service packs please visit the release notes below: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX release notes Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC release notes The updated online examples and documentation can be found at: AJAX demos/documentation MVC demos/documentation For those...

This may be common knowledge but I failed to quickly find the relevant info when it hit me. In short the default editor template generated by ASP.NET MVC 2 ignores any nested complex properties of your model. Here is a short example which demonstrates the case:   Model: public class Customer{ public int ID { get; set; } public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; }} public class Address{ public string Street { get; set; } public string City { get; set; }} Controller: public class HomeController : Controller{ // // GET: /Home/ public ActionResult Index() { return View(new Customer { ...