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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Survey: What do you want to see in upcoming RadTips episodes?

    It's been a while since I posted my last RadTips episode. In fact, with recent conference travel, the new Telerik.com web site, and preparations for the Q3 2008 release I've hardly had time to get anything recorded. But now that all that is in the past it's time to get rockin' with some fresh content. For those of you who don't know, RadTips is a screencast I do on a regular basis which provides quick tips that you can use with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Each episode focuses on a specific RadControl feature and is fairly short (approximately 5 - 10 minutes),...
    November 17, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Training courseware for ASP.NET AJAX

    Among all the big announcements we had over the past couple of weeks you might have missed that we now have a brand new 800-page training courseware for ASP.NET AJAX. This is a step-by-step tutorial that covers all RadControls from the very basics to the more advanced topics. The learning guide includes tons of how-to’s, tips and tricks, code samples and a real-life online exam application (called ActiveSkill) that you can build as you cover the chapters.   The courseware is available to everyone for free download from our website: PDF (51MB) PDF with all code samples and Visual ...
    November 17, 2008
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    ASP.NET binding with OpenAccessDataSource

    In the last post we saw how easy it is to reverse engineer a database schema. Let's now use the resulting persistent classes library to build the first website. Let's do it again step by step: Step 1: Use the resulting solution from the northwind reverse engineering post. Step 2: Add a new web application by execution File->Add->New Web Site... from the Visual Studio Menu. Choose ASP.NET Web Site. Step 3: Add a reference from the website to the class library. Select the website project in the Solution Explorer and execute Website->Add reference from the Visual Studio Menu. Select the class library project in the Projects tab.   All...
    November 15, 2008
  • Web

    Can your grid control do this?

        In “First Look at Silverlight 2” Scott Gu showed how easy is to change the visual appearance of a Silverlight application using the standard features of the Silverlight Grid control: While reading the blog, it occurred to me that it would be very easy to achieve similar effects with RadGridView for WinForms. With the latest version of RadGridView you can change the row layout using different view definitions in a very simplistic and easy way:     Using parts and ideas from Scott’s article, I compiled a small application that gets a list of article from digg.com via web services and shows them in RadGridView...
    November 13, 2008
  • Web

    REST Service Calls with grid client binding

      Inspired by Nikhil's blog post about C# 4.0 - Dynamic REST Service Calls I've made small demo how to bind the grid to Flickr REST API  and here is the result:   You can configure the service to return JSON and deserialize the result: and since we don't need all the data you can use LINQ to turn the result into more understandable objects: Enjoy!   [Live | Download]...
    November 12, 2008