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Kinect Presentation at Chippewa Valley Code Camp
On November 12th 2011, I gave a presentation at Chippewa Valley Code Camp titled, “Kinecting the Dots with the Kinect SDK”. As promised, here is the Slides / Code / Resources to my talk. (click image to download slides) What is it? The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a starter kit for applications developers that includes APIs, sample code, and drivers. This SDK enables the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich experiences by using Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7. Resources : Download Kinect for Windows SDK beta... -
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Excel-like filtering enhancements in RadGridView for WinForms Q3 2011
Q3 2011 is knocking on the door and along with all the cool stuff you will find inside, there is one feature that we would like to tell you about now. Do you remember Excel-Like functionality, which allows the end-user to effortlessly apply filter by selecting items from a popup list? Now we are including a bunch of new stuff to it. Calendar filter popup First of all is a new calendar popup. It will be shown by default for date columns, and it will allow for easily selecting a date from RadCalendar. For additional convenience, there are a couple of predefined... -
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Q3 2011 release with SPRadGrid WebPart
Our ASP.NET AJAX Web Part for SharePoint 2010 featuring an extended version of Telerik’s most prominent control – RadGrid, will soon be released with the following improvements: SPRadGrid Designer’s Persistence of Data-binding Parameters Till now SPRadGrid Designer gave you the opportunity to set SPRadGrid’s data-binding information in a user-friendly manner without, however, persisting it for subsequent page requests. In this way, if you needed to just slightly adjust the structure of, for example, a multi-level hierarchical grid with each level featuring its own data-source object and parent-child relations, all of these being set through the SPRadGrid Designer, upon a new request to... -
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OpenAccess ORM Q3 2011: OpenAccessLinqDataSource
We have added some exciting new features to the upcoming release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM, offering new capabilities and further optimizing your development process. We can’t really wait to show you the details about what we have been working on during the last several months. We will start with introducing the long awaited OpenAccessLinqDataSource component. Many of you have already requested a component to provide similar functionality for data binding to OpenAccess models such as LinqDataSource for LINQ to SQL models, so naturally the idea was moved forward to implementation. Our component, called OpenAccessLinqDataSource, targets those of you who use RAD development principles.... -
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Further Tales of the Keyboard Ninja
The previous post on using the keyboard shortcuts in Telerik JustCode focused on the new keyboard mappings window. This article will focus on an essential element to all aspiring keyboard ninjas: accessing the Visual Aid without the mouse. You may have already memorized the Show Visual Aid Menu shortcut, or you may have found it from the keyboard mappings window. If not, I will refresh your memory now: Ctrl+`. The backwards apostrophe character is on the same key as ~ on most keyboards. At any point the Visual Aid tag is showing, you can press that shortcut to show the Visual Aid menu. If you’re accustomed... -
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Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone - part 3/3 - displaying the data in Metro UI
[download the application complete source code from your Telerik account ] This is part 3 of the series on Building an Exchange Client For Windows Phone. See part1 and part2. In the previous part of the series you saw how to connect, authenticate and consume the Exchange server data. In this part I will show you how to build the login UI and how to display the appointments in the windows phone application. Building the Login UI and storing user password The UI itself is nothing special – we are just listing the fields that are needed. I want to stress out how important is the security when... -
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Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone - part 2/3 - Connecting to server and consuming data
[download the application complete source code from your Telerik account ] This is part 2 of the series on Building an Exchange Client For Windows Phone. See part1. Microsoft has invested a lot into building managed API for accessing Exchange Web Services (EWS). This gives us the opportunity to do virtually everything from code, that an end user can do using the Microsoft Outlook client. The API allows us to add/edit/delete mail massages, appointments, contacts, tasks, etc. In this example we will show you how to access user appointments, but working with the rest of the assets can be done in the similar way. Setting... -
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Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone
[download the application complete source code from your Telerik account ] Part 1 – Overview We’ve got a lot of positive feedback on our previous end to end example of building a WindowsPhone application with Telerik Windows Phone controls and we decided to create a new complete application with full source code available. This time we decided to cover a topic that is very consumer oriented, but at the same time there is very little info available on the internet. We will show you how to consume and display data from a Microsoft Exchange Server using the Exchange Web Services Managed API (EWS for short). In the latest... -
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Get a Taste of the New Telerik Q3’11 Bits. Get a Chance to Win a License!
It’s been another four months of hard work on keeping Telerik’s wide portfolio on the cutting edge of innovation, so that our clients can be sure that their applications leverage the latest technology trends no matter what technology and tools they choose to use when building them. As always, we have tons of new things to show off and we are happy to invite you to our Q3’11 Release Webinar Week to walk you through them. 10 Telerik Evangelists have prepared 11 webinars covering 15 products! And we haven’t abandoned our tradition of rewarding one of you at each webinar with... -
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Insert YouTube and Vimeo videos with RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
Starting from Q3 2011, the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX gets a new dialog - Insert External Video, which provides the ability to easily embed a YouTube or a Vimeo stream providing just the URL. Steps to insert a video: Open the Insert External Video dialog and paste the copied video link into the Paste Youtube or Vimeo video URL textbox, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWv11JDPy24 To preview the video and enable the Embed video settings panel click outside of the textbox after you paste the URL. It is possible to configure the video using the Aspect ratio, Width and Height customization options, as well as to choose whether the video will play...
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