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Desktop WPF
Drag from external programs into you WPF applications using RadDragAndDropManager
Since Q3 2010 we have introduced new drag mode, enabling native drag from and to your WPF applications. In this post I will show how to successfully perform drag drop operations from external program into your application through the RadDragAndDropManager API. This can be achieved in several easy steps: 1. Set RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag=”true”. This will enable native operations (if your application runs in full trust). The easiest way to do this is set it in StartUp event. private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e) { RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag = true; } 2. Set the RadDragAndDropManager properties to enable the drop operation: telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.AllowDrop="True" telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.DropQuery="FileListGrid_DropQuery" telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.DropInfo="FileListGrid_DropInfo" and add the corresponding... -
Productivity
Convert an Existing LINQ to SQL Model to Telerik OpenAccess in 30 Seconds
If you are currently invested in LINQ to SQL and want to upgrade to Telerik OpenAccess ORM, with the new OpenAccess Q3 release you can do this quite easily. There is a new wizard included with OpenAccess that will automatically convert your LINQ to SQL classes to Telerik LINQ classes. Let’s take a look. I’ll start with a simple project that has a simple LINQ to SQL model in it: Northwind.dbml. It is mapped to the Northwind database tables. I created a simple web form that has a GridView on it. I decided that I would try to stump the wizard by writing a complex LINQ... -
Desktop WPF
Exploring the RadSparklines performance in WPF/Silverlight
As we know, the RadSparklines are characterized by their small memory footprint, cleaner XAML and simple but powerful rendering. When looking at the sparkline controls in the context of a charting tool one has to note that they are much more simplified. They lack many of the visual elements, such as Axis lines, gridlines or striplines. This makes them much faster when rendered and very suitable when used in high data-intensity scenarios. One such scenario may be when using different types of sparklines bound to a ViewModel/class, which passes hundreds or even thousands of data points to the controls. Since the RadSparklines... -
Productivity Testing
Did you miss the Agile Testing Webinar?
Thanks to all those to attended Wednesday's Automated Testing in the Agile Environment webinar. If you missed the presentation you can catch it 24/7 on Telerik TV. Since we had some great questions asked during the session, I thought I would share them with the community! Q: Can't automated test execution take a long time as well? Is that just a time/project management issue? A: Sure depending on the number of tests and the complexity of the tests, they can take time as well - of course tests can be run during off hours and dispersed across multiple test ...December 03, 2010 2 min read -
Desktop
Facebook Client for Your Desktop
Back at the PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, Brian Goldfarb showed off the “Microsoft Silverlight Client for Facebook Beta”. It was released by Microsoft in early 2010 and had millions of downloads for both Windows and the Mac. Over the past few months, the Facebook app has been further developed by Telerik and is now available as the first official version under its new name: Telerik f!acedeck. Telerik has taken over the application from Microsoft and will continue its further development and support as a free application for everyone to enjoy. Telerik f!acedeck delivers a superior experience to Facebook users and offers unique features: such as drag-and-drop from the... -
Release
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... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
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 =...
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