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  • Web

    Comparing Generic Types

        Today I was dealing with the problem of comparing generic types in Silverlight. After researching the problem I found many similar issues for which I couldn't find any straightforward solution on the web. So here we go - a post on the issue how to compare generic types. First, let’s say we have a simple generic class which is composed of two generic properties A and B, and a method that we will later use to compare these two properties. Moreover, I will constraint the class to invoke the constructor of the generic type argument by using where T : new()      public class GenericClass<T> where T : new()       {...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    Marketing and Silverlight, configuring cross-domain banners

    I have been part of Telerik’s Silverlight team for almost a year now, and I too well know that our marketing team is just two floors away to say anything bad about marketing.  So I will just say that now having Silverlight 2 in its official version out, marketing mix should adopt one more P in its four P’s concept, Ptechnology. That is why, I will try to explain this topic step by step, so that all marketing guys attracted by the name of this topic can delete the first paragraph and give it to their development teams for consideration....
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Release

    We're [Feed]burning - update your RSS readers

    Last week we decided to start syndicating via Feedburner in order to better track the readership of the Telerik Blogs. The updated URL of the main feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Telerik
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Telerik Reporting Q2 2008 SP2 is now live

    Our continuous commitment to provide prompt fixes and excellent support for our products has resulted in a second Service Pack of Telerik Reporting. While smaller than the first one, it still contains important bug fixes and improvements. Here is a summary of what has been fixed: Report parameters are not displayed when Session State mode in SQLServer or StateServer. Sometimes font-size is not set correctly in HTML rendering. WinViewer.ToolbarVisible is not serialized correctly at design-time when the viewer is in a hidden container. Adding Dock or Anchor first and then setting KeepTogether does not warn of incompatibility. It simply crashes the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Image caching in PDF

    Over the past few days I worked on an image caching mechanism in the PDF Rendering Extension and I am happy to announce that the achieved output size reduction was more than significant. The Problem When a report contains the same binary image many times, the PDF Rendering Extension has no way of knowing that it is actually one and the same and renders it many times thus wasting disc space. For an illustration of this case imagine that you have your company's logo in the page header and your report is 200 pages long. The Solution: Enter Cyclic Redundancy Check I've implemented a central...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read