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Get Ready to Touch’n’Roll with RadControls for WinForms
In a world where the word ‘touch’ became something usual rather than something exceptional, we understand that you will surely need to take your Windows Forms application to the next level. With the introduction of the Touch API in Windows 7 and the touch oriented devices for Windows 8, Microsoft paved the road to the touch-friendly applications. We also decided to follow this path allowing you to create new or update your existing Windows Forms applications making them follow the latest UX touch trends. One step in this direction is the new RadPanorama control which we discussed in a previous blog. The second step which... -
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Separate Skin Assembly in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX with Q3'11
Probably all of us have identified at some point the following trend in software development — newer version usually means bigger assemblies. Sure, some of the new stuff is features that we use on a daily basis; but some of the new stuff is just eye candy that we don't always use. In fact, wouldn't it be nice if we could get just the software with the default looks; get the job done then and, if needed, add that sweet UI candy to it later? And in order to tackle this problem — maintain a reasonable file size of the main Telerik... -
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Telerik’s Products Named “The Best” in VSM Readers Choice Awards Again This Year
Every time our products sweep awards thanks to the opinion of people like you who use them every day, we can’t help but feel we are doing a good job crafting them. So we would like to express our gratitude to you for your trust and vote in this year’s Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards helped us win them. Following last years’ success in the VSM Readers Awards, we are happy to learn your trust in us is growing. Telerik’s TeamPulse, Test Studio, RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, and RadControls for Windows Phone are the first choice of the VSM audience in... -
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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... -
Desktop WinForms
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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