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  • Productivity Reporting

    Understanding the Telerik Reporting WCF Service

    After working a bit with the Silverlight Report Viewer for Telerik Reporting, it seemed only natural to write a quick post to explain how exactly the Reporting WCF Service (located here in the help file) works and how to quickly and easily get started with it. To start with, why do we need a WCF service for Telerik Reporting?  The answer is that we added a Silverlight Report viewer not too long ago, and in order to get information to a Silverlight client application you need to either use a javascript bridge through the webpage hosting the XAP, which is a slightly clunky...
    February 11, 2010 3 min read
  • Productivity

    How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an AtomPub Endpoint

    .NET Ninja in training, Peter Bahaa, shows us how to build an AtomPub Endpoint using Telerik OpenAccess entities and the Data Services Wizard beta 1. Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1-ATOMPub from Stephen Forte on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: Telerik,AtomPub,WCF
    February 09, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity

    How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint

    .NET Ninja in training, Peter Bahaa, shows us how to build a WCF Endpoint using Telerik OpenAccess entities and the Data Services Wizard beta 1. Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1-REST Collection from Stephen Forte on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: WCF,REST,Telerik >
    February 05, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Understanding the Report Life Cycle in Telerik Reporting

    Have you ever spent a large amount of time designing a Telerik Report only to discover that its output is not entirely what you expected? This is the type of problem that can occur if you don't have a full understanding of the Report Life Cycle. The Report Life Cycle defines what happens and when it happens in Telerik Reporting. Understanding the Life Cycle is crucial to effectively using Telerik Reporting, which is why I plan on spending some time explaining it in detail today.   The diagram in Figure 1 provides a high level overview of the sequence of events ...
    February 05, 2010 3 min read
  • Productivity Document Processing

    Programmatic export to PDF from Silverlight application

    Ever wanted to export a Telerik report from a Silverlight application? This is easily accomplished by instantiating the ReportServiceClient class, which plays the role of proxy to the Telerik Report Service. To specify that you want to render the report we use the RenderAsync method of the ReportServiceClient, which invokes the respective method on the server (remember that it serves as proxy) that would return the rendered report. Since we’ve used an asynchronous method and we do not know when the render would finish, we need to handle the RenderCompleted event. In the RenderCompleted event we get the result from the rendering and decide what to...
    February 03, 2010 2 min read