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...
I’m happy to announce that with our upcoming service pack (Q3 2010 SP1) you will be able to sort, filter and load records on demand with WCF RIA Services and our VirtualQueryableCollectionView. To enable this we’ve added two extension methods for EntityQuery<T> and now you can use directly VirtualQueryableCollectionView SortDescriptors and FilterDescriptors: var context = new NorthwindDomainContext();
var query = context.GetOrder_DetailsQuery().OrderBy(o => o.OrderID);
var view = new VirtualQueryableCollectionView() { LoadSize = 10, VirtualItemCount = 100 };
view.ItemsLoading += (s, e) =>
{
var queryToLoad = query .IncludeTotalCount(true) ...
As you know, with the official Q3 2010 release of WebUI Test Studio, you can easily create a scheduling server for test execution. What you may not know is that you also have the ability to publish test list results from a command line execution directly to your scheduling server - here's what you need to do: The first step is to configure a scheduling server if you have not yet done so. Next, be sure to connect your project to your scheduling server (QA Edition Only) Now just set the appropriate arguments on the AoT Runner
Set the ...
The Telerik Silverlight teams have released various demo applications together with hundreds of examples to help you get started more easily with RadControls for Silverlight. The newest demo application, the Weather Station, will not only show you how to bind the Telerik Silverlight data visualization controls to real-time data, thus creating interactive and engaging user experience, but it might also help you win an Xbox 360. All you have to do to participate in the “What’s the temperature?” game is to: Launch the Weather Station application Check the weather in your city Tweet the temperature and the name of your city. Use...
Whether you have just installed the new release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM or downloaded a demo that has been built with an older version of our tool, you most certainly have had to remove and add again your OpenAccess references in your existing projects. In order to make it easier we have provided the option of doing this automatically. However it seems like this functionality has not been found by too many users. It can be found in the OpenAccess menu Telerik -> OpenAccess -> Upgrade References. Executing this will, in a second, upgrade all the references to OpenAccess in all...
If you are creating OData or WCF services in your application and have been using
the Telerik
Data Services Wizard, things just got a whole lot easier. As I have shown before, you
can go from File|New to a new CRUD application in 30 seconds using the wizard.
With the Q3 release last month, Telerik gives you more control over the wizard and
its output. Some of the new features are: the ability to isolate your service in its
own project, the ability to select which CRUD methods gets created for each entity,
and Silverlight data validation. Let’s take a look.
When you run the wizard, on its first...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...