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  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in Azure – Part 1, Building your Application

    As some of you are (hopefully) aware of, our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX work flawlessly on Windows Azure. We actually have a short blog series available here on our blogs that go through the necessary steps for creating an application (Part 1) and later deploying it (Part 2) to Windows Azure. However, do our ASP.NET MVC components work on this platform? The answer is: yes! (Note the usage of ‘!’, that’s how exciting it is!). The best thing is that the process is no more complicated than what you have to do for our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Note Since most of...
    April 14, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Using the Resize and Drag extender built into the ASP.NET AJAX controls

    The development for both desktop and mobile browsers has always been a difficult task, often an impossible one. To ease the process, we have prepared a couple of extenders, thus delivering to the developers unified methods to implement solutions for the mobile web platforms. In addition to the previously introduced TouchScrollExtender in Q3 2010, we present to you another member of the family. The ResizeExtender is a small client-side only control that enables resize and drag functionality on an HTML element in all browsers regardless if they are desktop or mobile (except the browsers that lack the needed desktop or touch events...
    April 14, 2011
  • Web

    How To: Run an installer as administrator with logging enabled

    Tired of enabling installer packages with User Account Control turned on? Miss the right-click & Run as Administrator command on MSI files? Want to easily run each installer with logging enabled? At least I was. Here is a quick way to add a Run As Administrator With Log command to msi files (inspired by David Ebbo’s post ): All we need is modify the MSI.Package class definition in the registry. The first step is to add a “runas” shell entry. This allows the command to automatically be run as administrator. The next step is defining a command to be executed. This is the...
    April 12, 2011
  • Web

    How To: Telerik Silverlight components in Microsoft LightSwitch Beta 2

    Have you seen Microsoft LightSwitch ? If not you should try it! This is definitely a simpler way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. While the built-in interface (standard Microsoft Silverlight components) can be used as a start when creating applications you will definitely need custom screens depending on your business scenario and I’ve decided to show you can easily integrate Telerik RadControls for Silverlight in Microsoft LightSwitch Beta 2.
  • Web

    How To Create A Population Pyramid with RadChart for Silverlight

    A population pyramid, also called an age structure diagram as defined by Wikipedia is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population (typically that of a country or region of the world). It typically consists of two back-to-back bar graphs, with the population plotted on the X axis and age on the Y axis, one showing the number of males and one showing females in a particular population in five-year age. Although there are different types of population pyramids this blog post will demonstrate how to create such pyramid using the RadChart’s Horizontal Bar type....