Telerik blogs
  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting: Using the PictureBox Item

    Telerik Reporting comes with all essential report items in the Visual Studio toolbox to help you more easily design rich reports. One such report item, the PictureBox, is used to display images on a report. The PictureBox is simple and easy-to-use like the other report items, but in this post I’d like to highlight a couple of its features so that you can take full advantage of its capabilities. Specifically, I will discuss the data binding and layout features that are unique to the PictureBox item. Data Binding Binding image data to a PictureBox report item is very straight-forward. If you’re using the...
    February 20, 2009
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadTips, Episode 17: Repositioning the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX

    I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes... Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 1 Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 2 Introducing the RadInputManager for ASP.NET AJAX Manual Ajax Requests Using the RadAjax Client-Side API If you’re interested in these...
    February 19, 2009
  • Productivity Testing

    WebUI Test Studio: Introducing the RadControls Translators

    The Automation Design Canvas is a great test automation solution. You’ll get convinced after watching the videos on Telerik TV or downloading the WebUI Test Studio and start recording your first tests. And still there’s something great to be found about this tool – its excellent extensibility model.   Building the translators During the last couple of months our team had the pleasure to work on extending the tool for the purpose of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX application test automation. We aim to provide the extensions that will enable our customers to create the necessary regression tests as easy as ...
    February 19, 2009
  • Productivity Reporting

    Reporting: assembly scoped user functions

    Hi guys, We've been having requests for the feature in the title for some time and finally we were able to introduce it in the Q3 SP2 release.  Generally user functions allow you to extend the default behavior of the Telerik Reporting engine. They are public static  (Public Shared in VB.NET) methods that should always return a value and can take an arbitrary number of input parameters depending on your needs. They are public static, because they are not related to a concrete instance of a report. They are executed by the expression engine and work in the context of the report processing. If you...
    February 18, 2009
  • Web

    Prism v2 now supports Silverlight and WPF

    You know Telerik's commitment to provide cross platform Silverlight and WPF controls with shared code base. Now that you have all those cross platform controls (more to come in Q1) - what is  the next step you need to do in order to have your application working in SL/WPF with a shared codebase? This is an easy question - you need to use the guidance provided from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft of course :). There is now official documentation on msdn available. Here is an extract from the project description from the codeplex site: "The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. This...
    February 18, 2009
  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting: Using the PictureBox Item

    Telerik Reporting comes with all essential report items in the Visual Studio toolbox to help you more easily design rich reports. One such report item, the PictureBox, is used to display images on a report. The PictureBox is simple and easy-to-use like the other report items, but in this post I’d like to highlight a couple of its features so that you can take full advantage of its capabilities. Specifically, I will discuss the data binding and layout features that are unique to the PictureBox item. Data Binding Binding image data to a PictureBox report item is very straight-forward. If you’re using the...
    February 20, 2009
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadTips, Episode 17: Repositioning the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX

    I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes... Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 1 Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 2 Introducing the RadInputManager for ASP.NET AJAX Manual Ajax Requests Using the RadAjax Client-Side API If you’re interested in these...
    February 19, 2009
  • Productivity Testing

    WebUI Test Studio: Introducing the RadControls Translators

    The Automation Design Canvas is a great test automation solution. You’ll get convinced after watching the videos on Telerik TV or downloading the WebUI Test Studio and start recording your first tests. And still there’s something great to be found about this tool – its excellent extensibility model.   Building the translators During the last couple of months our team had the pleasure to work on extending the tool for the purpose of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX application test automation. We aim to provide the extensions that will enable our customers to create the necessary regression tests as easy as ...
    February 19, 2009
  • Productivity Reporting

    Reporting: assembly scoped user functions

    Hi guys, We've been having requests for the feature in the title for some time and finally we were able to introduce it in the Q3 SP2 release.  Generally user functions allow you to extend the default behavior of the Telerik Reporting engine. They are public static  (Public Shared in VB.NET) methods that should always return a value and can take an arbitrary number of input parameters depending on your needs. They are public static, because they are not related to a concrete instance of a report. They are executed by the expression engine and work in the context of the report processing. If you...
    February 18, 2009
  • Web

    Prism v2 now supports Silverlight and WPF

    You know Telerik's commitment to provide cross platform Silverlight and WPF controls with shared code base. Now that you have all those cross platform controls (more to come in Q1) - what is  the next step you need to do in order to have your application working in SL/WPF with a shared codebase? This is an easy question - you need to use the guidance provided from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft of course :). There is now official documentation on msdn available. Here is an extract from the project description from the codeplex site: "The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. This...
    February 18, 2009