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  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight 2 Released Soon!

    The RadControls for Silverlight 2 have remained a beta product as we waited on Microsoft to finish the second major version of their browser plug-in. Well, without much fanfare Silverlight 2 was officially released today. In case you haven't been paying attention, this version is huge and introduces an enormous amount of improvements from version 1, the biggest of which is its support for .NET code in the browser. As with our other control suites, the Silverlight team at Telerik has remained on the cutting edge of this new technology and is eager to release the official version of its RadControls...
    October 14, 2008
  • Web

    RadControls for Silverlight Demo with ADO.NET Data Services

    Yesterday I wrote about how to databind RadTreeView for Silverlight to ADO.NET Data Service and use Load on Demand. The simple application from yesterday was upgraded to a small back-end application for the Northwind database, that allows editing and deleting products. This time I decided to give it to one of our designers and our new Silverlight front end developer and they implemented this slick design: The application is available online: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/northwindbackend/Default.aspx The source code can be downloaded from here: NorthwindBackend.zip In addition to yesterday's application, NorthwindBackend has extended data source, that provides simple undo mechanism and ability to update and delete products...
    October 09, 2008
  • Web

    Silverlight TreeView Load on Demand

    Today I created a really simple application that demonstrates "best practice" for using RadTreeView with load on demand and ADO.NET Data Service. The application uses the Northwind database, that can be downloaded here. The tricky part is that in order to create almost codeless application we need to modify the automatically generated code of the service reference. To do that you will need to show all files in the Silverlight application (click the Show All Files in the Solution Explorer title bar) and then open Reference.cs: In this file replace all occurrences of "System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection" with "System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection". This probably will be changed in...
    October 08, 2008
  • Web

    Silverlight 2 Resources

    In the spirit of my recent Silverlight Foundations post, I thought I'd post some Silverlight 2 resources which you might find useful as you get started with Silverlight 2 development.
    September 22, 2008
  • Web

    Silverlight Foundations: Hello, World!

    Silverlight is Microsoft's new platform for developing Rich Internet Applications. Instead of being constrained by the limitations of HTML, .NET developers can use their skills to create even more powerful applications in the browser than is possible with ASP.NET. But unless you've been living under a rock for the past year and a half, you already know that. What you might not know is how in the world to get started using this exciting new technology in your own projects. We have already released the RadControls for Silverlight 2 beta (which will be officially released alongside the release of Silverlight 2), and...
    September 10, 2008