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    Pie Chart: Taking Control of the Label

    It is pretty straight-forward to create a pie chart with a simple label that identifies the “category” for each slice. What is a bit trickier is to modify that label so that it shows not only the category, but the percentage each slice represents. Let’s build the pie chart both ways to see the difference. In either case, we begin with data. Our pie chart will reflect a municipal budget, and so our first class is BudgetData, 1: public class BudgetData : INotifyPropertyChanged 2: { 3: private double millions; 4: public double Millions ...
    September 04, 2012
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    Custom paging with Telerik RadGridView and RadDataPager for Silverlight and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch

    With this post I would like to show you how you can customize easily paging behavior in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch using Telerik RadDataPager for Silverlight .
    August 29, 2012
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    The JavaScript Bat Belt

    The Dark Knight This weekend, I finally did what so many developers have already done several times in the past month. I saw the new Batman movie. I decided for this post, that I would do a complete character and plot breakdown while dissecting the...
    August 29, 2012
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    RadControls for Metro (XAML)–Date and Time Pickers

    Surprisingly, Visual Studio for Windows 8 XAML does not come with either a date or a time picker. Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. The RadControls For Metro suite of controls includes a very flexible DatePicker and TimePicker control that I’ll illustrate in this posting. To get started, be sure to add a reference to the RadControls for Metro to your application. As usual, we’ll begin with the data. This time the data is very simple. We start by creating a class representing a hotel or conference reservation, public class Reservation   {       public DateTime ArriveDate { get; set; }       public DateTime DepartDate { get; set; }   } Notice that the two properties are of...
    August 27, 2012
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    HTML5 is Not Over-Hyped

    A week doesn’t go by where I don’t see some analyst or research firm trying to make headlines by endorsing or disparaging the viability of HTML5. HTML5 is the new kid on the block, so it’s an easy target. The latest case is a recent report from...
    August 24, 2012