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    Asynchronous Master-Details with RadGridView for Silverlight and WCF RIA Services

    Inspired by Brad Abrams’ marvelous series of blog posts, I have decided to create a simple project demonstrating how to harness the enormous power of RIA Services with Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight. I have decided to use the new Chinook database after reading this wonderful post by Tim Heuer explaining how to work with relational data in the RIA Services paradigm. Make sure you have this database installed on the default instance of your SQL Server 2008 Express or you will have to modify the connection string as needed. In one of my previous blog posts I have thoroughly explained How To Display Hierarchical Data with...
    January 07, 2010
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    How To: Populate RadGridView for Silverlight distinct filters asynchronously using WCF RIA Services

    With our upcoming service pack (Q3 2009 SP2) you will be able to populate distinct values asynchronously using the DistinctValuesLoading event. To achieve this you can assign any INotifyCollectionChanged collection for distinct values ItemsSource and RadGridView will update the UI immediately on any change. I’ve made small demo on how to achieve this using WCF RIA Services and RadGridView bound to DomainDataSource with DataPager – in this case the grid distinct values are populated from the entire collection server-side not only from the current downloaded page:   server-side: public List<DistinctValue> GetDistinctValues(string propertyName) { var list...
    January 07, 2010
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    Application Library Caching in RadControls for Silverlight

    As people become more aware of the fantastic things you can do with Silverlight, they’ve also realized one of the downsides of this can be increased XAP size.  The default way that Silverlight handles a XAP is to include all the required assemblies into that single compressed file.  This isn’t that bad when you’re working with a barebones Silverlight project, but once you start adding in different controls or 3rd party assemblies you are increasing your XAP size quite a bit in some cases.  And as we all know, a larger XAP leads to longer load times, and although people have...
    January 05, 2010
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    Vertical Orientation of CoverFlow for Silverlight

        The feedback about our new version of CoverFlow for Silverlight has been great! Thank you guys for pointing out all these small issues and problems that had to be polished since we introduced a new beta CoverFlow for Silverlight 3 back in September. After the core functionality of the control is successfully integrated in our Silverlight 3 suite, we are now able to start developing new features that every grown-up CoverFlow control should possess :) Vertical Orientation     Both in our forum and support system we have received numerous requests for vertical orientation of the CoverFlow control. That is why, with our 2009...
    December 29, 2009
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    Telerik Silverlight controls and SharePoint 2010

    We just uploaded a video produced by Sahil Malik, a Microsoft MVP and INETA speaker. This video shows how to use Telerik Silverlight controls in SharePoint 2010. The approach demonstrated in this video is Telerik Silverlight controls working with the client object model, in particular RadScheduler talking to the Calendar list.     For more details you can also check Sahil's blogpost at: Telerik Controls with SharePoint 2010 Client Object...
    December 22, 2009