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  • Productivity

    Using ADO.NET Data Services with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,9a2c41de-b873-4acb-a680-78a2f130a03d.aspx";digg_title = "Using ADO.NET Data Services with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; I have been a big fan of using the RESTful ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria). If you want to use Astoria out of the box without any modifications you really have to use the Entity Framework. But as long as you are using a data access library that supports IEnumerable and IQueryable (and IUpdateable to be useful for CRUD) you can use Astoria with just a little bit of extra work.  Telerik OpenAccess supports LINQ and IUpdateable and can be used in Astoria as shown here. In a nutshell you have to first create your data access layer, then a web site to host your ADO .NET Data Service and...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #1

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,1d3d07a0-ce73-4eb3-8fd4-1ec259e21a60.aspx";digg_title = "Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #1";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Last week I showed how to use the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard on this blog. The wizard creates some of the boring WCF code for you automatically. You can create endpoints for WCF, Astoria, REST collection and ATOM Pub services. Our first demo used WCF, later we will show you the other services. This is what we did: Created a data access layer automatically using OpenAccess Created a WCF Service automatically using the wizard Created a Silverlight 3.0 application that used WCF to databind the Customers table to a datagrid, enabling editing automatically Here is a video by Peter Bahaa (aka Pedro), .NET ninja in training, using the wizard with the...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Full keyboard navigation coming in RadMenu for WinForms

    Perhaps nobody uses every bit of keyboard navigation when it comes to menus. I bet that there aren’t many of you who use F10 to activate the menu. You nevertheless expect our RadMenu to support keyboard navigation out of the box for the very few of your clients who are using the full set of navigation commands. Full keyboard support will be available in the next internal build so that you folks can give it a go: you will get accelerators, mnemonics, F10, and of course, the arrows and enter/escape keys support. The best part is that all commands will be internally...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Using WCF for Silverlight Development with Telerik OpenAccess

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,e137f5a7-7bea-4722-9359-5f830d95e691.aspx";digg_title = "Using WCF for Silverlight Development with Telerik OpenAccess";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Microsoft’s Silverlight 3.0 is a great new platform for building line of business applications. With every new technology advancement, we always seem to lose something. With Silverlight we lose the dirt simple data access since Silverlight does not support System.Data.SQLClient and talking to a database directly. This forces us into a service oriented architecture and an asynchronous model. While this is definitely a best practice, it sometimes takes a little getting used to. With Silverlight we have to wrap up our data access layer into WCF services. (Or Astoria, RIA Services, or something similar.) It is also pretty standard to use some kind of ORM like the Entity Framework...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Multiple child views with RadGridView for WinForms

    One of the most wanted features related to hierarchy in RadGridView is the support for hierarchy containing one-to-many relations. Now, this is possible by using tabbed child views. We added the feature in our latest release – Q2 2009.     However, RadGridView is not restricted to show only tables. Child views can be used to display any relevant information (e.g. rich text, picture or even a chart). If fact you can use any RadElement or host a control by using the RadHostItem. In the example below I will demonstrate how to do it.   You should follow a few simple steps:   1. First bind the...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read