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Dynamic binding for your Silverlight applications
In the early days of Silverlight binding support for advanced dynamic scenarios was very limited (remember my DataTable?). Since then, however, the platform has evolved greatly – so did our tools! Dynamic code 2009 style: Dynamic code 2011 style: Now to bind RadGridView to some dynamic data you just need ObservableCollection<dynamic>: RadGridView will auto-generate columns automatically using your DynamicObject GetDynamicMemberNames() implementation and will call your TryGetMember/TrySetMember (TryGetIndex/TrySetIndex in case of indexer binding) methods when needed. To illustrate this I’ve made small example project (similar to this blog post) demonstrating... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Good Collaboration: Bringing Devs and Testers Closer
I fully admit it: I’m extraordinarily biased to having developers and testers co-located in the same room, or even at the same desk. I’ve seen the great collaboration that ensues as testers and devs bring their different skillsets, experience, and views together while working together on project tasks. While I’m biased in that direction, I’ve also led and been a part of teams working in different states and on different sides of the globe—and we were highly successful at our efforts thanks to working hard at establishing a great collaborative environment. Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a central pillar ...September 27, 2011 5 min read -
Productivity
Project Templates in Telerik OpenAccess ORM
As we mentioned in our recent post we added new project templates to Telerik OpenAccess ORM, making it easier than ever to get an application up and running. In this blog we will take a look at each of the new templates, see what they provide, and see how you can leverage them with other Telerik Components. Using the Templates These templates are for .NET 4.0; so when adding a new project make sure that .NET Framework 4 is selected in the drop down above the project template list. Web Site Template To make it easier for developers using Web Site projects, we added a... -
Mobile
RadMap for Silverlight – How To Consume Tiles from Local Server
Currently RadMap supports three built-in map providers: Bing Maps, Open Street Maps and Empty provider. The empty provider does not show any map tiles. It just provides spatial reference (projection) for other operations (i.e. KML or ESRI shape files). The Bing Maps and Open Street Map providers read their tile images from internet. Of course a browser can use these images from its cache, but the Bing Maps provider requires internet connection because it uses a WCF service to get URLs of the tile images. It is a common scenario that the map... -
Productivity Testing
Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources)
In this final post of my performance testing series I’ll help you figure out where to start, then pass on a few resources I’ve found extremely helpful in my own efforts. What do I Monitor? Figuring out which metrics, measurements, and counters to monitor can be extremely daunting—there are hundreds of individual counters in Performance Monitor alone! In most cases you don’t need anywhere near the entire set of metrics. A few counters will give us all the information you generally need for starting your performance testing work. Most performance testing gurus will tell you just a few items will ...September 27, 2011 2 min read -
Release
JustCode Support for Visual Studio 11
Last week during the BUILD conference Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was announced. Soon after that it was made available to the public. Here at Telerik we are committed on providing support for the latest and greatest technologies so we are already working on JustCode for Visual Studio 11. Actually, JustCode is happily running inside VS11 on our own PCs. Now it is a matter of an internal build or two to test and fix some compatibility issues before we can give it to you for test... -
People
The LOB Chronicles Episode 7: MEF, Attributes, and Behaviors (Oh my!)
The last time we all got together was before a little conference known as Build. Everyone learned a ton of information about what is coming next in Windows 8 and the WinRT platform, but one thing stuck out for sure – Metro is in. Thankfully our designers have been all over this for quite a while and we have some very nice things in the works, most of which I can’t publicly talk about (yet!), but in the terms of this application we’re definitely on the right track. And don’t forget, an investment in a Silverlight application today means... -
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Telerik XAML controls Q2 2011 SP1
The Service Packs of Telerik XAML controls (Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone) are out. You can find a bunch of improvements and fixes in the service packs that are currently available for download under your accounts. You can check the updated demos at: Silverlight demos WPF demos Some of the high spots for Silverlight and WPF are: Improved QCV performance when having lots of groups on many levels (LinqToEntities) in the GridView. Added UI Layers API and allowed more than one style (Bold, Italic, Underline, FontSize) to be set on an empty span while editing a document in the RichTextBox. Optimized memory and performance of the TreeListView. Added declarative support for... -
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Silverlight is dead. F****** dead
Or maybe it isn’t that dead? OK…you expected me to say that, and you’re thinking, “this guy is just trying to sell me Silverlight tools and save his business.” I will not argue…you’re almost right. There’s one small correction to be made - we are not trying to save our business. :) Rather, we are hard at work on all fronts, be it HTML5 or Win8, so it doesn’t make a difference for us what technology you’ll ultimately choose as we have all bases covered. As I’ve said many times, use whatever makes most sense for your business. That said, I... -
Mobile
RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Mango and Q2 2011 (NoDo) SP1 are now available
In mid-August, sometime after the Q2 2011 release, we upgraded RadControls for Windows Phone 7 to support Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and released an official build that contains some major performance improvements in RadDataBoundListBox and also all major controls that were introduced back then with Q2 2011: RadChart RadCalendar RadBusyIndicator Enough time has passed for us to gather some very valuable feedback from you to prepare a Service Pack which addresses some critical issues, introduces a new control (RadBulletGraph) and a meaty new feature in our powerful RadChart. We have also managed to greatly optimize the performance of our Data Engine by using the new System.Reflection.Emit APIs. RadChart alone represents...
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