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  • Desktop WinForms

    Twitter Authentication with TweetSharp and WinForms

    A few weeks ago, I decided to spend some more time experimenting with the Twitter API and TweetSharp. If you missed my last blog entry about it, you can access it here. Last time I focused on creating a simple UserControl for ASP.NET that displayed recent tweets. It didn’t require any authentication and was actually quite simple to implement. This time around, I wanted to create a RadControls for WinForms based application that retrieved information about my accounts followers. This type of information is unfortunately not publically accessible through the API. You actually need to authenticate and log ...
    October 08, 2010
  • Web

    Blend, DevConnections, and Lighting Up The Web

    Hey Telerik Developers! I wanted to write a slightly out-of-band post to mention some of the speaking engagements that I will have over the next few months, covering a wide range of topics in the Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 space. First up, Telerik is pleased to host Expression Blend for Silverlight Developers, a one hour webinar being presented on October 21st aimed at helping the Telerik Developer Community (and for that matter, everyone using Silverlight, WPF, or Windows Phone 7) to learn a little bit more about Expression Blend and how it can fit into our daily development workflows.  You can...
    October 06, 2010
  • Productivity

    How to raise event for a mocked call.

    Recently, while i was working with a support issue, I found this interesting piece of test code that i would like to share here. This is actually written by Stefan Lieser (clean code developer from Germany forwarded to me by Jan from Telerik Germany).
    October 06, 2010
  • People

    Following up from New England Code Camp 14

    Hey Telerik Developer Community!  If you are in the northeastern US (or even further, if you look at the speakers!), then you probably spent this past Saturday afternoon at New England Code Camp 14 for a day jam packed with great topics and conversations. I was able to present Building a Unified Experience - Developing with Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 at NECC and had a great time of it- the audience seemed to get into the talk as well with tons of questions regarding the framework, the future of WP7, and the launch that we all know is coming...
    October 05, 2010
  • Productivity Testing

    Displaying Incremental DateTime Values in the X-Axis of RadChart

    One of RadChart’s most powerful features is its support for DataBinding. This means that as long as you correctly format your data source, you shouldn’t have to write any backend code to support the generation of the chart. Using a data source with a control as powerful and complex as the RadChart can unfortunately be somewhat confusing. In this post, I’ll shed some light on one of the scenarios you are sure to come across, displaying incremental DateTime values from a data source in the X-Axis of RadChart. Setting Up the Data Source RadChart does not work directly with DateTime ...
    October 05, 2010
  • Desktop WPF

    Fast real-time data update for your Silverlight and WPF applications

    I’ve made small example to illustrate how to use NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Replace in order to provide very fast real-time data update with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF.    While Binding in both Silverlight and WPF will react immediately to any property change of INotifyPropertyChanged object and will update RadGridView cell values sometimes it is important to refresh the grid in order to update a sorting, filtering, grouping, etc. after some value change. To achieve your goal in such situation you have two options:   - listen for PropertyChanged of every item in the collection and raise NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset for the collection in order to tell the...
    October 04, 2010
  • Productivity

    Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options

    [repost from Stephen Forte's Blog] See also: Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema Part III: Location of your data warehouse Part IV: Extraction, Transformation, and Load In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse independent of cubes/a BI system and in Part II we looked at how to architect a data warehouse’s table schema. In Part III, we looked at where to put the data warehouse tables. In Part IV, we are going to look at how to populate those tables and keep them in sync with your OLTP system. Today, our last part in this...
    October 01, 2010
  • Release

    Using Shapefiles with RadMap

    Since the introduction of RadMap many customers have expressed a need to load shapefiles onto it.  We are adding native support for shapefiles in the Q3 Release, along with vastly improving the performance of information, and dynamic layers.  However, the beta is still a few weeks away, and I had a need for loading shapefiles this week, so I put this quick example together. How to do it Shapefile parsing in this demo is handled by the reader available in the ESRI Contrib project.  When we make the Q3 release you will be able to switch over to our reader by changing about...
    October 01, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    RadChart for Silverlight in ASP.NET MVC Application

    The purpose of this blog post is to show how to incorporate RadChart for Silverlight in an ASP.NET MVC application. Manol has already shown how to do this for ASP.NET and things are not much different for ASP.NET MVC. Let’s start with a simple Silverlight application with a single RadChart. For simplicity, I will populate it with a list of numbers, you can also use any of the techniques, supported by RadChart. The code is as simple as this XAML: <telerik:RadChart x:Name="RadChart1" /> And C#: RadChart1.ItemsSource = new double[] { 3d, 4d, 6d };   I will create two write-only properties of the Silverlight user control -- ShowItemLabels and SeriesType. They are marked with  ScriptableMemberAttribute so...
    October 01, 2010
  • Release

    Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and MVC Q2 2010 service packs published

    We are happy to announce the availability of the second Q2 service pack of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and the first service pack of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (Commercial version) for Q2 2010. These are expected maintenance releases for both product lines and, naturally, contain bug fixes and minor enhancements. The download packages are available from the Telerik client accounts here and here. For a complete list of what is included in the service packs please visit the release notes below: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX release notes Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC release notes The updated online examples and documentation can be found at: AJAX demos/documentation MVC demos/documentation For those...
    September 30, 2010