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by Derick Bailey May 31, 2013

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Using WCF for Silverlight Development with Telerik OpenAccess

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,e137f5a7-7bea-4722-9359-5f830d95e691.aspx";digg_title = "Using WCF for Silverlight Development with Telerik OpenAccess";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Microsoft’s Silverlight 3.0 is a great new platform for building line of business applications. With every new technology advancement, we always seem to lose something. With Silverlight we lose the dirt simple data access since Silverlight does not support System.Data.SQLClient and talking to a database directly. This forces us into a service oriented architecture and an asynchronous model. While this is definitely a best practice, it sometimes takes a little getting used to. With Silverlight we have to wrap up our data access layer into WCF services. (Or Astoria, RIA Services, or something similar.) It is also pretty standard to use some kind of ORM like the Entity Framework...

by Steve Forte
August 20, 2009 Share
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On Demand Translators for Silverlight: File Your Request Now

You are probably aware that one of the great new features coming up with the WebUI Test Studio v2.0 is the Silverlight automation support! Yes, that’s correct – you will be able to record all your tests against any Silverlight application as easy as you currently generate the ASP.NET tests. As you might expect we are also working on the RadControls for Silverlight translators. They will let you automate the RadControls for Silverlight components out-of-the-box. I’ve just captured a snapshot of the RadTreeView translator providing some helpful verification tasks. It is taken from the live demo here. While organizing ...

August 19, 2009 Share
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Customizing the header of RadPane control and adding behavior to it.

It is often necessary to customize the header of a RadPane. Really common is to need to put an image in the header, to bind that image to a property, etc. There are many scenarios in which you need to add some custom behavior to the header. One of this situations is when you need to have close button or another button in the header of the pane. The tricky thing here is that you need to implement an event handler for the Click event of the button and to write some code that will do something with the Pane. In...

by Miroslav Nedyalkov
August 19, 2009 Share
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Drag and drop items onto RadScheduler for Silverlight

We all are aware that users tend to look for the easiest and most rational way to do something. That is why developers always strive to create their products' interface as intuitive as possible. Speaking in this context, dragging and dropping helps us improve user experience significantly and make end users happier. In this blog post I will explain how we can use RadDragAndDrop to enable users drag items from a certain control and drop them over RadScheduler, while notifying about that. Of course, the described scenario could be extended to act in many different scenarios. Let us say we will drag items from a listbox to...

by Rossitza Fakalieva
August 19, 2009 Share
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RadDrag&Drop with a Canvas twist

A week or so ago I was giving a small presentation and one of the people in the audience had a great question. They had this old configuration section on their website for laying out something or other that had a lot of different options which could be dragged and dropped using some client-side javascript, but they are looking to move on up to Silverlight and the RadDragAndDropManager seemed to be the perfect candidate for the job. The only issue with that is the only examples we have online show moving items to and from collections, but in their case...

by Evan Hutnick
August 18, 2009 Share