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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...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • 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'
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Real-time update of Sparklines inside RadGridView SL/WPF

    Since Q3 2010 Telerik introduced the RadSparklines control. These new controls have remarkable performance as Yavor already showed. Today we will continue the topic of performance, however, we will do it in the context of a more real-world scenario. One application of the sparklines is to show financial data. Recently Vladimir Enchev blogged about real-time updates in RadGridView. Since sparklines and grids go hand-in-hand together when visualizing data we decided to prepare a small demo showing how to integrate both controls while still maintaining very good performance: In our project we took the real-time grid demo and also added some sparklines to it to illustrate...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
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    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    RadControls for Windows Phone 7 – an in-depth comparison with MS Toolkit

    Many users have asked the question “What are the differences between your controls and their equivalents in the Microsoft’s Toolkit for WP7”. With this article I will try to give you a more detailed perception on the added value of RadControls for Windows Phone 7. Please note that this is “our” point of view and how we see the differences between our suite and the Toolkit. We by no means belittle the efforts of Microsoft’s team that created such a nice components package.  I will list only the components/features that are present both in Telerik’s suite and the Toolkit. All of the...
    December 10, 2010 4 min read