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    HTTP Compression for your Silverlight ADO.NET DataServices

    I’m happy to announce that with Q1 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Telerik.Web.UI) you will be able to compress the response from ADO.NET DataServices (formerly "Project Astoria") in Silverlight web applications with simple web.config registration: web.config … <httpModules>   <addname="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" /> </httpModules> … Here is the result for Northwind Customers with ATOM and JSON response type: ATOM : Bytes Received: 11,623 (uncompressed 92,848) JSON  : Bytes Received:   9,237 (uncompressed 39,460) I’ve made small Silverlight application to illustrate the new...
    January 27, 2009
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Adding a RadToolTip to a Custom Toolbar Item in the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX

    Most of the time combining two RadControls together is wonderfully easy. We at Telerik know this; we work hard to have them work together in a way that is both simple and intuitive for developers. But every so often someone asks about hooking up two controls in such a manner that I have to sit back and scratch my head for a few minutes. Thankfully though, the RadControls are flexible enough that I usually can find an answer. Tonight that happened when a customer asked how to add a RadToolTip to a custom toolbar item in the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX....
    January 27, 2009
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Meet the RadRotator&rsquo;s Cousin, the RadTicker for ASP.NET AJAX

    I recently posted an in-depth look at the RadRotator for ASP.NET AJAX. I feel it appropriate to follow-up that post with a discussion about another oft-overlooked control in Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX suite, the RadTicker. The RadTicker is closely related to the RadRotator for ASP.NET AJAX, but boasts its own unique functionality. Whereas the RadRotator is best suited for richer content, such as images and HTML markup, the RadTicker is designed specifically to display text. The RadTicker uses client script to display a single character of text in a given interval, simulating a “typewriter” effect. While it has many of the same...
    January 26, 2009
  • Web

    Custom template columns with RadGridView for Silverlight

    Using GridViewCell template you can create your own template columns in less than a minute: <telerik:RadGridView Name="RadGridView1" IsFilteringAllowed="False" IsReadOnly="True" ShowGroupPanel="False" AutoGenerateColumns="False"> <telerik:RadGridView.Columns> <telerikGridView:GridViewDataColumn HeaderText="ID" UniqueName="ID" /> <telerikGridView:GridViewDataColumn Width="400" HeaderText="Name" UniqueName="Name"> <telerikGridView:GridViewDataColumn.CellStyle> <Style TargetType="telerikGridView:GridViewCell"> <Setter Property="Template"> ...
    January 26, 2009
  • Web

    Simulating a layout transform for text in Silverlight 2.0

    The Telerik charting team is hard at work on making our WPF chart compatible with Silverlight. In the process we are faced with numerous limitations of SL. One of the more cunning problems I’ve faced was the fact that there are still no layout transforms available which leads to some wacky problems when you try to rotate text. Let’s assume a very simple layout consisting of a single grid with two columns, one with width=”auto”  and the other with width=”*”. The first column contains a string of text. Here is how it looks before any transforms are applied: <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="SkyBlue"> ...
    January 23, 2009