Productivity

Telerik, being the pioneer in supporting emerging technologies, not only provides native direct connectivity to the OData protocol in its UI products, but also offers several systems which expose their data using the OData protocol. The Open Data Protocol is a data exchange protocol by Microsoft that enables data transactions to be carried over standard web protocols (HTTP, Atom, and JSON) for querying and updating data. OData is being used to expose and access information from a variety of sources, including but not limited to relational databases, file systems, content management systems, and traditional web sites. The Telerik's OData support extends...

Often times, you’ll need to store data from your application in XML files. Well, what if you want to report on this data… it’s not in a database, so how do you do it? I’m happy to say that you can easily report on XML data through the use of the ObjectDataSource component provided with Telerik Reporting. In this blog entry, we’ll take a look at how this can be accomplished. Working with XML Data For this example, I’ve generated some XML data in advance using this helpful data generation website. <Accounts>      <Account>         ...

Invoking a mouse action can come in handy, especially in navigation menus that use hover-over fly-out sub-menus. To get started, select the hover-over highlighting tool from the recording toolbar which is docked to Internet Explorer. Next, select the element on which you would like to invoke the hover over mouse action on, stay hovered, then click the blue bubble. The WebUI Element Menu is now displayed, note the icons highlighted below, these are used to invoke 'Javascript Events' and 'Mouse Actions', select 'Mouse Actions'

 Download SqlAzure.AdoNet (C# VS2010) - 149KB Microsoft SQL Azure is a relational database service that allows you to host your SQL Server based database in the cloud. Since cloud computing is gaining a lot of popularity recently, we decided to demonstrate how to connect and consume an existing SQL Azure database with Telerik Reporting. There are three basic methods for connecting Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database: Using ADO.NET and the SqlDataSource component. Using Telerik Open Access and the OpenAccessDataSource component. Using Microsoft Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource component. In this blog post we will cover how to connect Telerik Reporting to SQL Azure via ADO.NET. The other two methods will be discussed in subsequent blog posts of the same series. For...

As you know, with the official Q3 2010 release of WebUI Test Studio, you can easily create a scheduling server for test execution. What you may not know is that you also have the ability to publish test list results from a command line execution directly to your scheduling server - here's what you need to do: The first step is to configure a scheduling server if you have not yet done so. Next, be sure to connect your project to your scheduling server (QA Edition Only) Now just set the appropriate arguments on the AoT Runner Set the ...