Join Todd Anglin, Telerik Chief Evangelist and Microsoft MVP, at a free Telerik controls for Silverlight webinar that will take place on Thursday, February 19 at 11:00 am EST. This week’s session will help you get started building Silverlight applications using Telerik’s RadControls for Silverlight. You’ll see how to add RadControls to your Visual Studio toolbox and how to work with the controls in Visual Studio and Expression Blend. You’ll also learn how to connect the controls to data and style them in Blend, and even see a preview of what’s coming in Telerik’s Q1 2009 Silverlight release. If you’re considering a Silverlight project,...

For those of you that follow my TelerikWatch blog, you know that I recently made the jump to Windows 7 on my primary workstation (build 7000, to be exact). I’ve spent the weekend installing, tweaking, and testing the latest iteration of Windows, and like Vassil before me, my impressions are generally positive. Microsoft has definitely worked hard to ensure the compatibility nightmares of the XP to Vista jump are not repeated with Windows 6.1 7. I’m confident I’ll be able to use Windows 7- even in beta form- reliably as my full-time OS from this point forward. As far as Telerik is...

I’m excited to announce publicly that from Q1 2009 the Telerik portfolio will be extended with the WebUI Test Studio product. Powered by ArtOfTest, the new test automation solution reduces to minimum the efforts needed to test your Web Applications regardless complexity and structure. In order to make the life of developers and QAs working with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX even easier, the tool also extends the Automation Design Canvas codeless recording solution to operate over the RadControls Web Apps. Read more on the product home page.   Why is it so easy? The environment is well-known – ...

A common scenario when displaying tabular data is to flip the axis so your rows becomes columns and vice versa. This can be easily achieved when you know the shape of your data. For example imagine we have a Customer class with 3 properties:  Name, Age and JobCode. Let’s say that we have 5 customers in our data repository. If we want to select just the names we can do something like this: IList<Customer> customers = Customer.GetAll(); var names =     new         {             Customer1 = customers[0].Name,             Customer2 = customers[1].Name,             Customer3 = customers[2].Name,             Customer4 = customers[3].Name,             Customer5 = customers[4].Name         }; Imagine that another Customer is added and suddenly...

I recently hosted a Reporting 101 webinar where I gave an hour-long overview of Telerik’s Reporting tool. For those of you who missed it, and for those who would like to see it again, it is now available on Telerik TV for your viewing pleasure. Click here to view the Reporting 101 webinar on Telerik TV If you are interested in more advanced Telerik Reporting topics, stay tuned as I will be bringing you another Reporting webinar on Thursday, February 26th. The topic will be announced this week, so keep an eye on my blog or Telerik.com for more details. For those of...