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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX – Getting Started with RadImageEditor

    We often get requests for new controls and features for our products here at Telerik, and the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX are definitely no exception. One of the most popular requests has always been for the ability to edit images online. Enter the RadImageEditor. This new control, introduced with the Q2 2011 release, allows for end users to take images, edit them in various ways, and then either save them to the server or to their local machine. In this blog post I’ll introduce this new control to you, taking a quick look at how to set it up (it’s...
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Executing an Oracle stored procedure that returns result sets

    In this blog post I will describe how easy it is, to work with the Telerik OpenAccess lower level ADO API and Oracle Stored Procedures that are returning SYS_REFCURSOR as out parameters.   The Setup For the following examples we are using a basic Console Application project, which should be enough for the purpose of this blog. We have added a Domain Model to our Solution with two Domain Classes(‘Category’ and ‘Product’). Further we added the ODP.NET Driver from Oracle( you can get it from here), which should be installed on your machine as well.     On the Oracle database, we have created 2...
  • Mobile

    Metro Theme Customization Made Easy

    Simplicity is one of the corner stones for the visual appeal of all Metro UIs. Simplicity allows the theme to be largely consistent and make development of the UI of any program a breeze. But there is a risk. The risk of many applications looking alike. Are we facing a homogenization of the next version of UIs? Will my TODO app look like  your Twitter client or another’s cloud photo service? I have no clue. What I do know is that we did not want you stuck with a white and blue theme. We want to give you a chance to...
  • Release

    AJAX TreeList - New Q2 2011 Features

    I want to introduce you two new cool features in the RadTreeList for ASP.NET AJAX, available into the Q2 2011 release. RadTreeList Scrolling Sometimes you need to load dozens of rows into the RadTreeList, however the space where the RadTreeList control is placed on the page is not so big and the entire layout of the page is messed up. In this case you may feel some discomfort with necessity of scrolling. So here it is, you could use it when the page has limitations regarding the size of the RadTreeList control. To enable the scrolling of the RadTreeList you need to set the ClientSettings.Scrolling.AllowScroll property to true.
  • Release

    Telerik Zip Library–the newest member of the big RadControls family

    Have you ever wondered how to increase the responsiveness of your applications by compressing the data that you send over the internet? The Q2 2011 release of the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF comes with a new RadZipLibrary which allows you to easily compress data like images, docx or pdf files and send them over the wire. Thus, you will achieve fast and secure transactions. This is a list with short descriptions of the top-of-the-line features of Telerik’s Zip Library: Easy to use API – the Zip Library exposes flexible and easy to use API to provide you with full control over the compressed data Load or create ZIP...
  • Productivity

    Self-Organizing Teams Focus on Learning

    Most Agile texts/guidance/speakers (including myself) stress the creation and sustainment of self-organized teams. What does this mean? Is this possible? Can this ever be achieved? I’ve seen many teams evolve to Agile teams over the years. I must say, Team organization and Team management (especially self-organized teams) is quite difficult and absolutely the single most important aspect of success. The teams that I’ve seen succeed have a few characteristics that are in common.“… learning is key to having a self-organized team” First, there is usually a really great Scrum Master/Agile Coach involved at the beginning of a good self-organizing ...
  • Productivity

    The commercial launch of JustTrace brings new .NET profiler to the developer's toolset

    It’s only been a few months since we announced the Beta launch of Telerik’s .NET memory and performance profiler, yet JustTrace has gone a long way. Back then we shared with you our core vision for the product – we were not interested in launching just another .NET profiler, but a tool that will help developers build more performance and resource efficient applications and thus increase the business value of their products.  Some of our core objectives include: A profiler that is a stand-alone solution yet a natural fit for Visual Studio Three distinct profilers – Memory, Performance and Tracing – that give...
    July 15, 2011
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Stored procedure execution made easier

    Over the past several months we did get a lot of questions regarding executing stored procedures that return a result set and/or out parameters, being able to bind the results to the UI etc. The existing API worked fine in cases where the procedure returned rows of a persistent type, but if the returned columns did not map to a persistent type there was really no way to get back instances of a non-persistent type that mapped to the result set. We’ve been listening very keenly to the feedback from customers and with the Q2 2011 release we are glad...
    July 15, 2011
  • Mobile

    RadChart for Windows Phone 7 – fun with gestures

    As Q2 2011 is officially out, we are really excited about all the interactivity features we shipped with our charting component. Together with all the built-in goodies like PanAndZoom, Trackball and Tooltip, we have also implemented a flexible and convenient way for extending the default gesture handling behavior of RadChart. By implementing a handler for the RadChart.PreviewGesture event you may provide completely custom interactivity depending on your custom scenario. When marked as “Handled” the event will have higher priority than any default behaviors registered with the Chart. Simple drill-down functionality Let’s play a bit more with the PreviewGesture event by implementing a...
  • Release

    Introducing the new and improved JustCode

    Telerik’s second major release for 2011 brings a bunch of exciting new functionalities, improvements to existing features, and many performance optimizations for JustCode, Telerik’s unobtrusive Visual Studio plug-in.   Some of the highlights include new additions and improvements to JustCode’s Code Navigation and Search features, new and improved Formatter (wrapping, new line and space formatters), several new Quick Fixes/Quick Hints, as well as new Refactorings, Code Generation features and Code Cleaning Steps, among others.   Let’s have a look at some of these highlights.   JustCode’s innovative Code Navigation and Search has traditionally been a very strong asset of the product that we continuously get praise for. This...
    July 15, 2011