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Web ASP.NET MVC
Time Saving Features For MVC Developers
I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awesome in the extensions. VS Extensions Telerik’s MVC extensions come with built in Visual Studio extensions to make project creation, and configuration, a snap. In addition, the extensions include a variety of project templates to help start new projects: -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
The Present and Future of Using JSON in WebForms
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the way to handle data on the client these days. It really is the cat’s pajamas. Almost all the client-side widgets or libraries that you’ll be working with will most likely be utilizing JSON, and sending large chunks of data over the wire as JSON as opposed to other bulky forms of data can lead to some dramatic performance increase across any application. I often come across individuals not sure of what JSON is, or how they can use it today, and I wanted to address this issue in a blog post. Of course I... -
Productivity
Telerik OpenAccess ORM – Default Values support has arrived
As many of you already know, we are offering you a chance to choose which features of OpenAccess ORM you would like to see implemented in the next releases. You can post your votes and comments in our PITS system, plus you can ask us to put new features there through the support system or forums. Recently there is one clear winner in PITS – the database default values support. It has been requested many times through our support system as well – and we would like to thank all of you for the feedback, we do appreciate it. We are glad... -
Release
Kendo UI Protips
Urban Dictionary contains several definitions for Protip: Obvious advice sarcastically presented as sage wisdom. To offer advice or suggestion to resolve a problem. Often used in context of emphasizing common sense, a very strong opinion, or to belittle/mock a person’s point of view. A... -
Desktop WPF
RadDockable–A Thursday XAMLFlix
It’s Thursday and time for the latest installment of XAMLFlix. As a quick review, XAMLflix = Videos + Projects covering all of the controls in both the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF control suites. We are revamping the entire video library with fresh new content based on the latest versions of our controls, complete with projects so you can grab the same code you see in the video and run with it. Be sure to check out www.telerik.com/xamlflix for all the videos! Discovering RadDocking RadDocking gives you very powerful control over the positioning and display of data, and maximize the utility of... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Take a Walk on the Client Side with WebAPI and WebForms
In my last blog I introduced the basics of using ASP.NET AJAX and WebAPI together in the same project. In addition, I showed how to bind results from WebAPI to a Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Grid. In this blog I will continue down this path and implement insert, update, and delete operations using WebAPI and RadGrid! Note: While this post focuses on using WebAPI in conjunction with RadGrid, most of the client code can be used when working with RadGrid in client mode.Set It Up! To get started an additional reference needs to be added to the project: System.Net.Http.Formatting Adding this reference allows us... -
People
Here we grow again. Telerik acquires NimblePros
It doesn’t even feel like it’s been that long since I wrote a post on “Telerik in Numbers” (almost 10 months to date), and that blog content feels very out of date. While I plan to update you with some new, fresh stats in the future, today I wanted to update you with some exciting news that will impact the stats I gave you on the number of offices and people we have. I am really happy to announce the acquisition of NimblePros. Throughout the years we’ve had many touch points with Michelle and Steve Smith, the founders of NimblePros.... -
Release
Welcome to XAMLFlix Tutorial Wednesday
Starting today, and every week on Wednesday, I’ll be publishing a Tutorial to accompany one of the XAMLFlix videos. Today, to launch this new series, I have four tutorials to get us started: RadChartView Tutorial Video RadScheduleView Tutorial Video RadBarCode Tutorial Video RadGridView Tutorial Video Please feel free to share your comments and feedback. We’d especially love to hear which controls you’d like to see covered... -
Productivity
Bend Telerik OpenAccess ORM to Your Will with Type Converters – Storing Classes to XML
In a previous blog I showed how to customize Telerik OpenAccess ORM data mappings using custom TypeConverters. In particular we looked at storing, and querying, an enum by its name rather than its int value. In this example, I will show how to get OpenAccess to serialize a class to xml, and store it in the database. In the end you will have a reusable TypeConverter you can use to store any class as XML using OpenAccess! :) Creating the Type Converter The first thing we need to do is create the type converter. To do that, simply grab the basic skeleton I displayed... -
Web
Creating A Kendo UI MVVM Widget
Following up on last weeks post about creating custom DataBound Kendo UI Widgets, I wanted to cover how to make these widgets MVVM aware. The simple widget that I built in the last post is DataSource aware and can also be bound via declarative initialization. ...
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