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Win a $250 Amazon Gift Certificate by Answering a Short Survey
Let us know about your reading habits when it comes to print media and you might be the lucky winner of a $250 Amazon Gift Certificate. All you have to do is answer this 7-question survey telling us more about the way you perceive content in print developer magazines and journals. The survey will close on January 5, when we will draw the winner. We will e-mail the winner and announce his/her name in this blogpost on January 6. Thank you in advance for your participation. Your time and consideration is appreciated!...December 14, 2010 -
Productivity Reporting
Connecting Telerik Reports to XML Data with the ObjectDataSource
Often times, you’ll need to store data from your application in XML files. Well, what if you want to report on this data… it’s not in a database, so how do you do it? I’m happy to say that you can easily report on XML data through the use of the ObjectDataSource component provided with Telerik Reporting. In this blog entry, we’ll take a look at how this can be accomplished. Working with XML Data For this example, I’ve generated some XML data in advance using this helpful data generation website. <Accounts> <Account> ...December 14, 2010 -
Mobile
UI vs. Compositor – Demystifying the main Windows Phone 7 OS threads
Having spent a couple of months focused on Windows Phone 7 development, I must admit that Microsoft have managed to bring something completely unique and intriguing to the mobile world. Not only the fact that the UX has nothing to do with what’s currently on the shelves, but also the whole platform with its potential and developer accessibility make WP7 very thrilling. I really think that ‘Silverlight’ and ‘mobile’ are two words that should have been stick together anytime soon and with WP7 Microsoft made what should bring them back on the scene – they simply brought Silverlight into mobile. In...December 13, 2010
by Deyan Ginev
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Release
Introducing the RadNumericUpDown Control for Windows Phone 7
While developing the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 QSF we heavily discussed how the screen real estate should be organized so that we can display as much content as possible without losing on the UX front. We have many examples where user input is required which automatically implies increased amount of controls on the example page and thus leading to difficulties when optimally using the screen space. For instance, our Animation examples allow for adjusting animation parameters to better demonstrate functionality. At the beginning we implemented the input via TextBox elements: we allowed the user to type in the desired value, after that...December 13, 2010
by Deyan Ginev
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Mobile
Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #1: Introduction
When we started preparing our development infrastructure for the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 suite one of the interesting challenges that we faced was the automation of the unit tests execution. Of course, each developer could run the tests on their local machine manually, but this approach is rather cumbersome, especially when the amount of unit tests grows as the project evolves. Therefore we decided to take some time and research the possibilities for running our unit tests on the Windows Phone emulator automatically by integrating them with our MSBuild projects. The idea we came up with is quite simple in...December 13, 2010
by Deyan Ginev
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Productivity Testing
How To: Invoke a Mouse Hover Over Event
Invoking a mouse action can come in handy, especially in navigation menus that use hover-over fly-out sub-menus. To get started, select the hover-over highlighting tool from the recording toolbar which is docked to Internet Explorer. Next, select the element on which you would like to invoke the hover over mouse action on, stay hovered, then click the blue bubble. The WebUI Element Menu is now displayed, note the icons highlighted below, these are used to invoke 'Javascript Events' and 'Mouse Actions', select 'Mouse Actions'December 13, 2010 -
Release
Telerik Q1 2011 ASP.NET plans
It is this time of the year when the teams here at Telerik make their global next year planning, and the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and MVC teams make no exception. For those of you, dear customers and prospects, who are eager to take a sneak peak at our year 2011 planning and want to know what is cooking for the Q1 release, I give you the official Q1 2011 ASP.NET teams roadmaps: Q1 2011 ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap Highlights: Two new AJAX controls - Ribbon and Month/Year picker New ListView and Scheduler SharePoint 2010 web parts A bunch of enhancements for the existing controls...December 11, 2010 -
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Telerik Q1 2011 ASP.NET plans
It is this time of the year when the teams here at Telerik make their global next year planning, and the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and MVC teams make no exception. For those of you, dear customers and prospects, who are eager to take a sneak peak at our year 2011 planning and want to know what is cooking for the Q1 release, I give you the official Q1 2011 ASP.NET teams roadmaps: Q1 2011 ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap Highlights: Two new AJAX controls - Ribbon and Month/Year picker New ListView and Scheduler SharePoint 2010 web parts A bunch of enhancements for the existing controls...December 11, 2010 -
Desktop WPF
OData support in RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF: The Netflix Catalog
The Open Data Protocol – the other Microsoft data access strategy along with WCF RIA Services, did not gain as much as popularity as its RIA cousin (yet!). But here in Telerik we want to give you as much freedom and power as possible and this means making it extremely easy for our clients to access and manipulate their data in applications built with our components. Our RadDomainDataSource is coming soon, but is only one piece in the puzzle of enhanced data support in our controls – starting with RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF Q3 2010 it’s as simple as pie...December 11, 2010 -
Productivity Reporting
Connecting Telerik Reporting to SQL Azure via ADO.NET
Download SqlAzure.AdoNet (C# VS2010) - 149KB Microsoft SQL Azure is a relational database service that allows you to host your SQL Server based database in the cloud. Since cloud computing is gaining a lot of popularity recently, we decided to demonstrate how to connect and consume an existing SQL Azure database with Telerik Reporting. There are three basic methods for connecting Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database: Using ADO.NET and the SqlDataSource component. Using Telerik Open Access and the OpenAccessDataSource component. Using Microsoft Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource component. In this blog post we will cover how to connect Telerik Reporting to SQL Azure via ADO.NET. The other two methods will be discussed in subsequent blog posts of the same series. For...December 10, 2010
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