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    Silverlight: RadChart codeless binding to RIA Services DomainDataSource

    Hello RadChart fans everywhere! With the introduction of Silverlight 4 just a couple of months ago a lot of our customers are asking if they can use the cool RIA controls with RadChart without writing any C# or VB code at all. With MVVM pattern getting so popular with Silverlight developers it is all about the XAML these days. Without further ado let’s answer the question:   The short answer is: Yes! The long answer: Yes, and it’s a total breeze! Just take a look at some code: Code...
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Shipped Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Q2 2010 Beta

    We just shipped the beta of the Q2 2010 release. Download instructions for the beta can be found in the announcement forum thread. Why a beta when other Telerik products had their betas a month ago? We decided to postpone the official release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC so we can deliver … three five new components! The official release would ship later this summer. New Components Telerik Editor for ASP.NET MVC In its first release the editor will contain only the most necessary text editing tools. We aim to keep it small thus more complex tools (image manager, table wizard etc)...
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    Calling a method of a base class' base class

    Yesterday a colleague of mine asked me a question about how to invoke a method of a base class' base class. Although it is possible it is not a good idea.
    July 09, 2010
  • Web

    WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: CUD Operations and Validation

    This article is Part 2 of the series Silverlight Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part I: The Basics WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: Create, Update, Delete and Validation Introducing Telerik OpenAccess Data Service Wizard WCF Data Services with Telerik OpenAccess ORM WCF End Points Services with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Silverlight Applications for Windows Azure with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part I: Connection to SQL Azure Silverlight Applications for Windows Azure with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: Developing the Silverlight Client and Deploying the Application Go Back at the Beginning In Part 1, we introduced...
    July 06, 2010
  • Web

    Frozen / Pinned rows in RadGridView for Silverlight

    A common UX pattern when working with large tabular data is the so called frozen rows or pinned rows. This is very popular in the spreadsheet world and in some text editors as well.     I have tried to resemble this behavior with RadGridView for Silverlight. The user may pin a row thus preventing it from vertical scrolling. This way important items may be kept inside the viewport regardless the position of the vertical scrollbar. Pinned items remain on top for easy access.   Adding this behavior to RadGridView is simple and painless: <telerik:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" > <i:Interaction.Behaviors> <local:FrozenRowsBehavior/> </i:Interaction.Behaviors> </telerik:RadGridView>   These lines should be all the XAML needed to enable it....
    July 05, 2010