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    First Look at Silverlight 5

    At a special Firestarter event (part of which was and Telerik with the new Silverlight client for Facebook called "f!acedeck"), Microsoft unveiled what the next version of Silverlight will include. All I can say is that it will be a huge release - both in terms of easing the developer lives and for enabling even more rich user experiences (in-the-browser and especially out-of-browser). We can divide the new features that are coming in the runtime in two categories - 1) new media features and 2) features that are focused towards business application development. New Media features Hardware Decode and presentation of H.264 improve performance for lower-power devices to render...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Have You Heard About f!acedeck?

      How do you find the interface of this application? Like it? It’s my f!acedeck. What is f!acedeck? It’s a Silverlight-based, client application for Facebook. The product was formerly known as “Microsoft Client for Facebook Beta”, but is now available with the name Telerik f!acedeck and is being offered as a free tool by Telerik. If you have happened to be at the Silverlight Firestarter event, or have been watching it online, you should probably know all this. The news about Telerik taking over the application from Microsoft was announced by Scott Gu there. Let me tell you some more on...
    May 05, 2025 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Telerik Windows Phone 7 QuickStart Application is Now Live on Marketplace. Source code available.

    In my last announcement about the availability of the second drop of the Telerik Tools and controls for Windows Phone 7 I promised you that we will publish our quickstart application on the zune marketplace. I'm now glad to tell you that the application submission process ran without any problems and you can install the quickstart application directly on your windows phone 7 device. You can see a details about the application here. You can also download the application source code and run the application on the VS2010 Emulator. We spend a lot of time designing the application just to make sure that it complies very well with the Metro design...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Fluent Mapping Improvements in Q3

    Back in Q2 we released a beta version of the OpenAccess Fluent Mapping API and since have been constantly working on improving the experience based on the feedback that we got from our early adopters. While the API is still in beta it is much more mature and already provides most of the functionality provided by the visual designer. Today we will try and get familiar with some of the changes and improvements to the API that have taken place in the Q2 to Q3 timeframe. First of all we decided that some of the existing API  members should be changed....
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Using GridView's Object-Relational Hierarchy with Telerik Open Access ORM

    In our previous blog post we showed how to use the new RadGridView Object-Relational Hierarchy with the Entity Framework. The same scenario can be easily implemented with Telerik OpenAccess ORM. The OpenAccess wizard for adding a new DomainModel will help us build the model of the well-known Northwind database in a few easy steps: Once this is done, the auto-generation of the hierarchy is very simple and needs just a few lines of code. We only need the LINQ query to the root object used for a DataSource (in our case “Suppliers”) and then setting AutoGenerateHierarchy to true: NorthwindEntities entities = new NorthwindEntities(); var query =...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Q3 2010 WinForms Webinar Materials

    Thank you to everyone who attended the Q3 2010 What's New in RadControls for WinForms & Telerik Reporting webinar! I hope everyone enjoyed learning about all of the great new features. I've provided a link to the demo application I used throughout the webinar below.  Please note: Some of the demos contain app.config files w/connection strings that you may need to update to point to your database. Requirements: RadControls for WinForms (Q3 2010) Telerik Reporting (Q3 2010) OpenAccess ORM (Q3 2010) SQL Server 2008 w/AdventureWorks Database Download: Trial Versions of Telerik Products Q3 2010 WinForms & Reporting Webinar Demos Watch the Webinar: Watch it...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Will you be watching the Silverlight Firestarter?

    Everyone that develops in Silverlight has seen a lot of activity around the technology lately, some good and some bad, but the message has been made loud and clear that Silverlight is here to stay.  So much so, in fact, that we're only a couple of days away from the Silverlight Firestarter, a full day packed full of education, resources, and some looks at the future of Silverlight: If you haven't registered yet, be sure to do so because seats are filling up fast.  The next thing you might be wondering... why is Telerik talking about the Silverlight Firestarter?  For starters,...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Q3 2010 Release Videos for Telerik Reporting

    A few weeks ago, the Q3 2010 release made its official appearance. This release marked the addition of various new features across all Telerik products. As with every release, we try our hardest to create video tutorials corresponding to each new product feature. In these videos we generally write the code to some sort of example application. Often we receive requests for this code, so I thought I would save you the trouble of asking and post the code to the Telerik Reporting videos here in this blog entry. Here is a list of all videos related to Telerik Reporting ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Q3 2010 Release Videos for RadControls for WinForms

    A few weeks ago, the Q3 2010 release made its official appearance. This release marked the addition of various new features across all Telerik products. As with every release, we try our hardest to create video tutorials corresponding to each new product feature. In these videos we generally write the code to some sort of example application. Often we receive requests for this code, so I thought I would save you the trouble of asking and post the code to the RadControls for WinForms videos here in this blog entry. Here is a list of all videos related to RadControls ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    Some insight on the Telerik Weather Station application

    We have recently uploaded the Weather Station demo showing some of Telerik controls for Silverlight in a great rich context. Following Kalin’s blog post announcing the main features, this one is to provide some notes on the technical side of the matter. Here is a list of the main features: Find client’s location upon startup and retrieve weather information if available. Store current locations and favorite ones in the local storage for proper loading on next startup of the application. Use two formats for weather values - Celsius and Fahrenheit. Search for custom location. Display brief location information (on smaller zoom levels) as well as...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read