Another webinar is down in the history books. Last Thursday I hosted Telerik Reporting: Get to Know Your Tools, an hour-long webinar which focused on the toolbox items available as part of Telerik’s Reporting tool. I covered all 8 report items, from the TextBox to the Chart to the Barcode, in detail. Thanks to those who attended, I hope you found the content to be useful. If you missed it, don’t worry; the webinar was recorded and is now available on Telerik TV for your viewing pleasure. Click here to view Telerik Reporting: Getting to Know Your Tools on Telerik TV For the...

For all of you eagerly awaiting this week's webinar, here you go!   The topic is "Client-Side Tips & Tricks for the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX" and it will be held at the usual time for our webinars: Thursday, March 5th, 11AM EST Register Now! The webinar is hosted on GoToWebinar and is absolutely FREE. Here is a quick abstract on what will be covered: Join Telerik Evangelist Kevin Babcock as he takes you on a tour of the client-side capabilities of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. You'll discover how to achieve enormous performance gains by using the ...

Mid March is coming and there are a lot of good news for our Silverlight controls to be shared with all of you – the 2009 Q1 release is near. Along with the official version of RadGridView, RadDocking, RadEditor CTP and a bunch of new features and improvements, RadChart for Silverlight is also coming into play. With the 2009 Q1 release we'll introduce 2D charts for Silverlight that share the same appearance and behavior as their counterparts in WPF. This is due to the fact that both of the suites share common codebase and API. I’m sure the next question will be...

Q1 2009 will be a milestone release for Telerik’s .NET Reporting tool as it introduces a new instrument for data analysis - cross tabs. Cross tabs display data in a matrix format, and are used to present and analyze the relationship between two or more variables. Cross tabulation is a great BI tool, because it provides decision makers with a data format which is easy to understand, and more importantly - easy to analyze. The Telerik Reporting Cross Tab item will offer design-time support in Visual Studio, not seen in a reporting product in this price bracket. It will be intuitive and...

Users can control how data is used in a report by taking advantage of the Report Parameters feature in Telerik Reporting. You can add parameters to your reports at design time through an editor, at runtime through a user interface in the Report Viewer, programmatically, or via a SubReport parameter collection. In this post I’ll show you how to set up a report that allows users to enter parameter values through the UI of the Report Viewer. This functionality provides users with the means to filter their reports quickly so that only the most relevant data is displayed. Setup the Report To get...