Telerik blogs
  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting in a Silverlight3 application

    *UPDATE: This technique is outdated. You can now use the native Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer as of Q3 2009. Please see the updated approach.** With the natural evolution of the Silverlight framework, people are demanding more and more from component vendors. One such request is to service the need to use Telerik Reporting in a Silverlight application. In this post you will see a solution that is very easy to use.   You can display the reports done with the Telerik Reporting product in your Silverlight application with just a single line of code. You need to create a Silverlight application with an ASP.NET site and add a...
  • Release

    Reporting Q2 2009 release

        Our main efforts for the Q2 2009 release were focused on the table item and as you can see from the release notes, we've added quite a few airs and graces here and there. Most noticeable of all being the two helper items - Table Wizard and CrossTab Wizard, print on every page ability for the ColumnGroup/RowGroup headers, GroupKeepTogether and various design time improvements - merge/split, keyboard navigation/selection and edit. Two improvements to the Report API - Processing Error Handling and the ability to hide the print progress dialog when printing a report programmatically For all of you Excel lovers out there - we've added standard percent, custom numeric...
    July 15, 2009
  • Productivity

    Why OpenAccess does require transactions?

    OpenAccess relies on lazy loading and change tracking to make is as easy as possible for the user to work with persistent data. But we need a point in time where we can collect all changes in memory and execute the insert, update and delete statements to persist the changes. Typically this is the job of a transaction. The easiest way is to never let OpenAccess run without a started transaction. In this case you only have to call commit or...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Visual Style Builder for ASP.NET AJAX: A Heavy Update

    Too much stuff! Must click little link: to the Style Builder! What's new? RadMenu, RadComboBox and RadInput get their share of styling goodness updated to the new-and-shiny 2009.Q2 release (featuring the real mode of RadColorPicker) the sought-after "base color" in Colorization is available I hope that you will like the UI. We revised it a few times before settling for this. The position of the "Apply" button was way off into nowhere (and, honestly speaking, it still is in the advanced edit). A note about colorization While the 'colorize' mode is indeed more useful (and probably sufficient in most scenarios), the old 'shift colors' algorithm has its...
  • Web jQuery

    Using jQuery to customize RadScheduler

    Telerik RadControls' for ASP.NET AJAX rendering is quite jQuery friendly. This is because almost all important html elements are tagged by a css class and therefore can be easily accessed using jQuery. In this blog post I have collected various cases from our forums and ticketing system on using jQuery to customize RadScheduler.  Special thanks to all customers or visitors who raised those questions. Q:  “I have a scheduler in timeline view showing six weeks of information.  Is it possible to change the header row background for the first two weeks?” A: The first step in finding a solution is to examine...
    July 14, 2009
  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting in a Silverlight3 application

    *UPDATE: This technique is outdated. You can now use the native Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer as of Q3 2009. Please see the updated approach.** With the natural evolution of the Silverlight framework, people are demanding more and more from component vendors. One such request is to service the need to use Telerik Reporting in a Silverlight application. In this post you will see a solution that is very easy to use.   You can display the reports done with the Telerik Reporting product in your Silverlight application with just a single line of code. You need to create a Silverlight application with an ASP.NET site and add a...
  • Release

    Reporting Q2 2009 release

        Our main efforts for the Q2 2009 release were focused on the table item and as you can see from the release notes, we've added quite a few airs and graces here and there. Most noticeable of all being the two helper items - Table Wizard and CrossTab Wizard, print on every page ability for the ColumnGroup/RowGroup headers, GroupKeepTogether and various design time improvements - merge/split, keyboard navigation/selection and edit. Two improvements to the Report API - Processing Error Handling and the ability to hide the print progress dialog when printing a report programmatically For all of you Excel lovers out there - we've added standard percent, custom numeric...
    July 15, 2009
  • Productivity

    Why OpenAccess does require transactions?

    OpenAccess relies on lazy loading and change tracking to make is as easy as possible for the user to work with persistent data. But we need a point in time where we can collect all changes in memory and execute the insert, update and delete statements to persist the changes. Typically this is the job of a transaction. The easiest way is to never let OpenAccess run without a started transaction. In this case you only have to call commit or...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Visual Style Builder for ASP.NET AJAX: A Heavy Update

    Too much stuff! Must click little link: to the Style Builder! What's new? RadMenu, RadComboBox and RadInput get their share of styling goodness updated to the new-and-shiny 2009.Q2 release (featuring the real mode of RadColorPicker) the sought-after "base color" in Colorization is available I hope that you will like the UI. We revised it a few times before settling for this. The position of the "Apply" button was way off into nowhere (and, honestly speaking, it still is in the advanced edit). A note about colorization While the 'colorize' mode is indeed more useful (and probably sufficient in most scenarios), the old 'shift colors' algorithm has its...
  • Web jQuery

    Using jQuery to customize RadScheduler

    Telerik RadControls' for ASP.NET AJAX rendering is quite jQuery friendly. This is because almost all important html elements are tagged by a css class and therefore can be easily accessed using jQuery. In this blog post I have collected various cases from our forums and ticketing system on using jQuery to customize RadScheduler.  Special thanks to all customers or visitors who raised those questions. Q:  “I have a scheduler in timeline view showing six weeks of information.  Is it possible to change the header row background for the first two weeks?” A: The first step in finding a solution is to examine...
    July 14, 2009