Note: A successor to this blog post has been written focusing on authenticating to the data service. You can read it here. Because TeamPulse makes it very easy to enter and track information regarding your project, users will find that they very quickly will have a large repository of valuable information in the TeamPulse data store.  Due to the complex and integrated nature of most teams, rarely does information stay within one repository.  It often needs to be digested and shared in many different ways and to many different people. Although TeamPulse has a rich visual aggregation of information ...

With the release of WCF RIA Services, Microsoft has made it much easier to implement multi-tier Silverlight based applications. Data resides in a database on the server and is accessible through the use of an ORM such as Entity Framework or OpenAccess. WCF RIA Services takes care of moving this data between the server and the client application by using Domain Services in conjunction with the ORM. As you may already know, Telerik Reporting includes a WCF based service responsible for rendering and serving up reports. This service however, is not based on WCF RIA Services, so a few ...

Telerik made it to the final of 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best products and services in the industry by a community vote. Telerik has been nominated in 15 categories: Add-In –Telerik JustCode Charting & Graphics Tool – Telerik RadChart for ASP.NET AJAX Component Set – Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Content Management System –Telerik Sitefinity CMS Grid –Telerik RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight Navigation Control – Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX ...

[Cross posted from .NET Musings]  I worked my first paying job involving computers in 1984.  After a degree in computer science from the school of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, I started quite the run as a computer consultant.  My first jobs involved building custom computers and networks and programming the computers!  I’ve had a fabulous career as a consultant, and worked with a lot of fantastic people.  But I realized a while ago that I wanted to be something else when I grow up.  I just had no idea what that was.  In 1995, I started as a volunteer for...

Template Basics JustCode templates are much like Visual Studio code snippets. They give you a chance to seamlessly generate a piece of code following a predefined structure. In the general case you just have to pick up the real content, i.e. the stuff that actually defines the logic of the code, from a set of possible choices that JustCode computes for you. All the boilerplate code is automatically generated for you. For example, here is how the C# built-in foreach code template  normally works out: Step 1 – Expand the template Step 2 – Choose a collection variable to iterate over   Notice how the type of e automatically changes from string to int   Step...