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  • Release

    FireFox 4 supported by Telerik AJAX and MVC components

    Right after the official launch of the new major version of the FireFox browser (you can download it from here) I asked our web teams to test the Telerik AJAX and MVC components against the latest version of FireFox. And guess what? Both suites support FireFox 4 and no modifications are needed! This is an acknowledgement that you can develop sites with our Q1 2011 AJAX and MVC bundles and be content when running them in FireFox 4. Pretty convenient, yeah?
    rahnev by Stefan Rahnev
    March 23, 2011
  • Productivity

    Mocking constructor

    March 22, 2011
  • Productivity

    Mocking constructor part 2

    Often we end up in a situation where constructor call on the target type requires us to include  a config file in our test project or requires firing up some external process. To better illustrate this if we create an entity framework data container either new or from an existing database , we will likely to end up with an entry point class that requires either a valid connection string to be passed or if we expand the default constructor we might see this:   /// <summary> /// Initializes a new NorthwindEntities object using the connection string found in the 'NorthwindEntities' section of the application...
    March 22, 2011
  • Productivity

    Converting an Entity Framework Model to the OpenAccess Domain Model (Q1 2011)

    Now that Linq-to-SQL is not going to be developed any more, it seems developers are left with little choice as to what ORM to use for their next projects. The ADO.NET Entity Framework seems to have become the ORM of choice for most Microsoft developers, who want to address the impedance mismatch across various data representations, but although very good and quite powerful, it falls short on some important characteristics of modern-day development: Visual Mapper/Entity Designer with advanced capabilities; Lack of native support for databases different from SQL Server; Release cycle of 2-4 years; Advanced/dedicated technical support; No built-in caching layer; We are sure that code-first...
    March 21, 2011
  • Release

    Two steps installation

    1st click, 2nd click and you are ready to go. These are the steps required to install any Telerik product as of the Q1 2011 release. The idea behind this change is to provide better user experience during installation. To achieve this we have minimized the steps that you have to perform when installing any Telerik product while at the same time we have left the same flexibility to customize what is installed. Let me introduce the new installation workflow: Step 1 On the first dialog you can read the license agreement of the product if you click the Read License Agreement button. By continuing...
    by Petar Raykov
    March 21, 2011
  • People

    MS Help 3 documentation deployment issues

    As you have probably heard starting with the official Q1 2011 release our AJAX components will provide integrated VS 2010 MSHelp3 documentation. Since the release a couple of customers have reported that they are not able to install the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. It turned out that the problem was related to the deployment of the MS Help 3 documentation. As a result we identified two different reasons for the failure. Both are described in the current blog post. First I want to show you how to recognize installation failure caused by the documentation deployment. To do so you have to examine the Application...
    by Petar Raykov
    March 21, 2011
  • Productivity

    Communication Bandwidth on Successful Projects

    As developers, we like to believe that only raw data matters. And what is more raw than the written word? Does this mean that email is a more efficient communication mechanism than in-person meetings? Email contains just the raw words of our intent, right? The receiver can scan through looking for relevant content. Their computer can index and search our email. Why don’t we communicate everything in email? We’ve all experienced the miscommunication that can happen in email. So what are we missing? The reality is that humans are social animals. We are attuned to many communication side channels - ...
    by James Kovacs
    March 21, 2011
  • Productivity

    A simpler ObjectKey

    As existing users might have experienced , handling the identity of a persistent object in OpenAccess can get complicated at times especially when it comes to a type with composite identity fields. With an aim to simplifying this aspect we worked on the ObjectKey API to make it easier to comprehend and to use. This blog post describes the API in brief, it’s intended usage and how existing code can be migrated.   The ObjectKey The ‘ObjectKey’ is the new entry point for working with a persistent object’s identity. The ‘ObjectKey’ for a persistent object can be obtained form the runtime or if...
    by Jan Blessenohl
    March 21, 2011
  • Release

    Aggregates for RadTreeList in AJAX Q1 2011

    I want to introduce you another cool feature for the RadTreeList which is available into the new Q1 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. With the new version the RadTreeList provides functionality for displaying summaries/results from aggregates in the footer item. The type of this footer item is TreeListFooterItem. To enable this functionality merely set the ShowFooter property of the respective RadTreeList instance to true (its default value is false). The TreeListFooterItem is most commonly used to visualize calculations from aggregate functions within the scope of the current level: In order to specify how the aggregates will be evaluated, specify in every RadTreeList column which have the Aggregate property one of the option...
    by Iana Tsolova
    March 18, 2011
  • Desktop WPF

    RadTimeBar - A Brand New Member In The Telerik WPF/Silverlight Data Visualization Family

    Hello everyone! Q1 2011 has just been released and with it comes for the first time the RadTimeBar. Time Bar is a time bound DataVisualization control whose main purpose is to allow lightweight scrolling, navigation, and selection through large periods of time. To ease visualization the timebar can divide the displayed timespan in predefined periods like years, quarters, months, weeks, days, etc. While showing periods of time divided in weeks can be fun, it becomes really useful when combined with another great product that allows quick data visualization – the RadSparklines.  In addition to visualizing data, the RadTimeBar control allows you...
    Vesselin Georgiev by Vesselin Georgiev
    March 18, 2011
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