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Thoughts on Being Awarded Microsoft Silverlight MVP
This isn't going to be your typical code sample-heavy blog post, but rather I wanted to reflect on something that arrived at my doorstep about two weeks ago... That is correct, I was awarded the Microsoft Silverlight MVP award for the past year of work around this fantastic platform. So let me start by saying thanks for both the nomination as well as the award - while it was never the goal of helping the community to grow and learn, it is certainly a nice perk. ;) And of course things are just getting started, as we saw at the Silverlight Firestarter,...January 17, 2011
by Evan Hutnick
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Desktop WPF
Controlling TreeView’s ExpanderStyle Dynamically
Sometimes the TreeView is used in scenarios where the expander style must be styled in custom fashion. Prior 2010 Q3 SP1 there was no easy way to dynamically change the expander style of the TreeView or particular item. TreeView’s ExpanderStyle So we decided to extend the functionality provided by the TreeView. Prior this enhancement changes to the ExpanderStyle property during runtime would not affect already visible items. The property now supports dynamic values and data binding. This way you can easily change the style of the expander of all items in the hierarchy during runtime. Item’s ExpanderStyle Working only with the TreeView’s ExpanderStyle...January 17, 2011 -
Productivity
Integrating Telerik OpenAccess ORM Spatial Data with RadMap
You read that right! In Q3 2010 OpenAccess ORM introduced new SQL Spatial Type support. Which is awesome for those of us that love playing with spatial data :) I started playing around with the new OA spatial support, and decided what better way to to demonstrate the capabilities than to output the data on to a map? This blog covers how I accomplished this task :) First We Need Spatial Data Some of you may already have spatial data sitting in a SQL Server DB, but if not never fear! You can use the great Shp2Sql utility, made by Morten Nielsen, to import a...January 15, 2011 -
Productivity Testing
Resolving Compatibility Issue Between JustCode and MSpec
[Cross posted from www.skimedic.com/blog] Telerik’s JustCode natively supports several test runners, including MSpec. This is great - the JustCode product team has taken on the responsibility to make sure the test runner works with the test frameworks, letting the framework developers focus on building even more awesome frameworks! Occasionally, this can cause an issue, though, as we just discovered here at CodeMash. The latest rev of MSpec introduced breaking changes in the JustCode test runner. While the team is hard at work updating the test runner to be compatible with the latest api, the work around is very simple. Simply change the Copy...January 15, 2011
by Phil Japikse
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Service Pack 1 release of RadControls for Silverlight/WPF is now available for download
You can check the full release notes at: RadControls for Silverlight Release Notes RadControls for WPF Release Notes The installation files are available under your accounts. With this SP1 release we officially announce the RadDomainDataSource control. Due to the unplanned for increase in interest in development of Silverlight line of business applications, we are making our latest addition to our Silverlight suite available before our next major release so we can enable our clients to focus on delivering their great applications without worrying about any “plumbing”. Our new Domain Data Source components ensure codeless integration of all Telerik data bound controls to WCF RIA Services....January 14, 2011 -
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Telerik is a Proud Sponsor of the SilverlightShow Eco Contest
Telerik is always happy to support Silverlight developers and not only with tools that rock. For a second year in a row Telerik is a sponsor of the SilverlightShow Contest for Silverlight applications. This year the competition aims at sparking the creativity of all environment friendly Silverlight developers and designers. 2011 has been declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations and the theme of the contest is related to the environment as well. Create a Silverlight application that informs about the critical situation with forests preservation and win great prizes such as a trip to MIX11 event at Mandalay Bay...January 14, 2011 -
Productivity
Personas Help Drive Requirements.. Really!
Look familiar? Yup, that’s right – this is a UML Use Case Diagram. This particular, and rather over simplistic, one depicts a few different UML Actors associating with Use Cases.January 14, 2011 -
Mobile
Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #3: The dedicated Test Runner Task
First of all, let me wish you a very happy and productive 2011! May the good Silverlight forces be with you and let’s hope that this year will be full of technology excitements and challenges! For the ones who haven’t followed me until now – this is the third installment of a blog post series focusing on an automation infrastructure for the execution of unit tests for Windows Phone 7 with MSBuild. This blog focuses on the MSBuild task, part of the unit test automation infrastructure, that installs the unit test application on the Windows Phone 7 emulator and runs the...January 13, 2011
by Deyan Ginev
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Web
TreeView BringIntoView
Quite often TreeView is used in scenarios where a particular item should be displayed on the screen. You may want to display some item when the tree is initially shown on the screen or when a new item is added. These scenarios look simple but are a bit tricky because you have to wait until the TreeView loads and then make your desired actions. Waiting for Loaded Event TreeView provides the BringIntoView functionality in several forms: you can call BringIntoView from the tree itself and bring a child item; get some TreeViewItem by calling GetItemByPath and call BringIntoView upon this item container;...January 12, 2011 -
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Handling Schema Migrations
If you have played around with the Fluent Mapping API you have most probably stumbled upon the issue of actually creating or migrating your database to the latest state. And while most tools suggest that schema operations should be performed during design time we give you the tools to either run them automatically or manually. All you need to do in order to get your schema up to date is instantiate a context object and then access its schema handler. I have prepared a simple code snippet that makes sure every time I run my console application my database schema...January 12, 2011
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