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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Native Binary Excel Export Made Its Way to Our ASP.NET TreeList

    Q1 2012 brings yet another popular export format to the already rich set of TreeList features. This time, we added support for the Microsoft Excel format. The exported files are based on the binary BIFF standard and hereby they are fully compatible with virtually all versions of Microsoft Excel and most of the XLS BIFF compatible software. Another benefit is that you will be able to access the output file using the widely popular OleDB Jet provider. Similar to the PDF export, you can apply custom styles in two different ways – using the built-in item styles (ItemStyle, HeaderStyle and the...
    March 02, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    What’s New in the Beta Metro/JS Templates for VS11

    A blog by Chris Sells, VP of Tools & Frameworks at Telerik. (Original post here) The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 (aka the Win8 beta) is now available for download, along with the matching Visual Studio 11 beta. You can download them both from the Developer Center for Metro style Apps and at least when I did the downloading this morning, it was smooth and worked well. In case you’re interested, I downloaded the ISO, not the setup, and I am currently writing this blog entry in Windows Live Writer running inside a WMWare Workstation 8.0 virtual machine running on the Windows 7 host OS running inside Boot...
    March 02, 2012 13 min read
  • Release

    Kendo UI Q1 Beta Release

    As an evangelist for Kendo UI, I get to talk about awesome stuff all the time.  Awesome is par for the course.  Awesome is what I work with every day.  And you might be thinking to yourself, “Sure, of course you think it’s awesome.  That’s your...
    March 02, 2012 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Get All the Agile Books You Want. For FREE.

    Do you have a long list of Agile books you want to read? Here is your chance to get all of them for free. The only thing you need to do is to share your wishlist with us and circle us on Google+.
    March 02, 2012 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLflix Presents RadRibbonView

    It's Thursday, and besides being a snowy day in the northeast to look forward to we've got your next installment of XAMLflix ready to rock and roll. Today I'll be showcasing RadRibbonView, our revamped Ribbon control that allows you to add an OfficeUI look and feel to your application. For a quick recap, 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 and greatest versions of our controls, complete with projects so you can grab the same...
    March 02, 2012 3 min read
  • Release

    All Questions Answered – A Follow-up to the Q1 2012 What’s New Webinar

    The “What’s New in ASP.NET” webinar was last week, and during the event you guys kept a pretty steady flow of questions coming in – which I like! Unfortunately due to time constraints I was not able to cover all of the questions live. However, I wanted to follow up with a blog post with all of the questions answered in written form. So, below you’ll find all of the answers to said questions that were asked during the webinar. Keep in mind that your exact question might not be in here, but that’s because I aggregated similar questions and...
    March 01, 2012 13 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    What Test Studio and SQE Trainings Have in Common?

    Hello testers! You know that last month we created a brand new Test Studio page on Google+ and to get the word around we promised to gift one SQE training worth $599 to one of you who circled our page in the month of February! It's time to announce the winner. Ta-dam.  Ahmed Mubbashir Khan! Congrats to Ahmed and thank you all for opening a door to new conversations, and letting us into your stream :) We'll keep in touch! You should too! We have prepared other giveaways for you, and we'll have pretty interesting news to share throughout 2012, ...
    March 01, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    Kendo UI Q1 2012 Beta Overview

    Yesterday we pushed the official beta of our upcoming Q1 2012 Kendo UI release! This release contains previews of much (but not all) of what you’ll find in the upcoming March release bits, and it’s your chance to get hands-on with the next wave of Kendo...
    March 01, 2012 7 min read
  • Web

    Building Rails Applications with the kendoui-rails Gem

    Estimated Time to Read this article and complete demos: 10 minutes Summary Today, we're announcing the availability of a RubyGem that helps you quickly add Kendo UI to your Rails applications. In this post, I'll share an overview of the Gem, a quick tutorial on how to use...
    March 01, 2012 4 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Client-Side DataBinding with RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX - Part 3

    This is the third and last in a series of blog posts on the new client-side databinding features we've introduced to RadListView with the Q1 2012 release. In the first blog post, we introduced you to the basics of client-side databinding in RadListView - how to define HTML templates, how to use binding expressions and what properties does the binding context provide for greater flexibility. In the second blog post we showed you how easy it is to bind to any kind of web services. In this blog post, let's dive deeper into the client-side databinding internals in RadListView. We'll see how to implementing paging, sorting and filtering to...
    March 01, 2012 8 min read