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    Jump-start using Telerik RadControls

    Or the quickest way to acquire and start utilizing RadControls Okay, I’m throwing it out: With Visual Studio 2010 on your machine and a Telerik account, you can set up a project utilizing the latest RadControls in less than two minutes. Here is how: Start Visual Studio 2010 Launch the Extension Manager and navigate to the Online Gallery tab Search for Telerik VSExtensions Install the VSExtensions you’re interested in. For the time being there are four of them: WebUI ( RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX ), Silverlight ( RadControls for Silverlight ), WPF ( RadControls for WPF ) and WinForms ( RadControls for WinForms ). VSExtensions for ASP.NET MVC are in production and will be published...
  • Productivity Testing

    Unit testing LINQ to SQL

    Unit testing LINQ to SQL repositories can be very challenging. Unit testing such requires faking hard to mock classes and requires simulation to return your custom data for a particular LINQ statement. In this post, i will show how you can mock your LINQ repositories easily without much digging in. As,  i was goggling [my start page is bing, its a matter of time when i will be bing-ing :-)] around, found a nice post by Ronnie Holm, where he shows how to unit test a  LINQ to SQL repository. I will follow his trail and use some of the codes...
  • Productivity

    The Telerik CAB Enabling Kit - RadDockableWorkpace w/RadDock Support!

    Recently, Telerik released a new and improved version of the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit (TCEK). This latest version now provides support for using the RadDock control as a workspace in your Composite UI Application Block (CAB) applications. Previously, only the old DockingManager control had been supported. In this blog entry, I will show you how to begin using the RadDock as a workspace in your applications through the use of the newly updated RadDockableWorkspace. In case you are new to CAB/SCSF or the TCEK - I highly recommend reading through my older series of blogs. You can access the introduction ...
    July 20, 2010
  • Web

    Silverlight: OutlookBar, Prism and TransitionControl

    With this post, I'll show you a step by step approach on how to integrate RadOutlookBar with Prism. To spice thing a little bit, the transitions between the different Prism modules will be handled by RadTransitionControl. Start off by creating a new Silverlight solution. Name the Silverlight application Prism.Shell and the Web project - Prism.Web   Organize the Solution Explorer a little bit by adding 3 solution folders.   Right-click on the Modules solution folder and add 2 new Silverlight applications. These applications will be the modules of our Prism application. Name them Prism.Module1 and Prism.Module2. Also, make sure they output their xap files...
  • Productivity

    Fun with pointers in C#

    Disclaimer: this post is all about fun. It is not about: turning a bug into a feature; some new isolation/mocking practice; wow, look what I will do with pointers in my next project; It is all about fun :)
    July 19, 2010
  • Release

    Today: Free Webinar on What’s New in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting

    Monday marked the first day of the Telerik Q2 2010 Webinar Week. Today (Tuesday, Jul 20, 11am EST) you will have the chance to catch a one-hour webinar on what’s new in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting, which also comes with live demos of everything new we have introduced in Q2 2010 for those two products. The webinar is not only free; during the live event attendees will have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection (valued at $1999). Register for What’s New in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting.  Here is a quick overview of what's new in the product lines: RadControls for WinForms 5 New...
  • Release

    Q2 2010 ASP.NET AJAX Visual Improvements

    As our second official release for the year is out, I would like to share with you the regular portion of visual updates for the ASP.NET AJAX suite. In Q2 2010 we continued to improve cross-control consistency. Polishing the overall look & feel and introducing subtle, but value-adding visual features were of major importance among all UX related tasks.   Rounded corners, shadows, consistent buttons, icons ... let's see what you are getting with Q2 2010: RadFileExplorer The FileExplorer control has undergone thorough appearance review. Here is a list of the visual improvements: Wrapper – border color is changed to fit the skin-specific...
    July 19, 2010
  • Productivity

    JustMock. The tale continues... (Part 2)

    [Want to see JustMock in action? Register for the free webinar this Thursday, Jul 22, 11 am EST and check out What’s New in JustCode, JustMock, and OpenAccess ORM. During the live event attendees will also have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection (valued at $1999).]   In JustMock. The tale continues... (Part 1) we saw how we can inject prologue/epilogue code in .NET methods with JustMock. We covered the most simplest scenarios and some more complex ones as methods with ref/out parameters. Today I will show you how to do code injections in generic methods. Basically there is nothing new. We are already familiar with: AtStartOfAction AtStartOfFunc AtEndOfAction AtEndOfFunc etc. and last time...
  • Release

    Telerik Reporting introduces OpenAccess ORM and ADO.NET Entity Framework data source components

    The Q2 2010 release of Telerik Reporting introduces two new data source components that are aimed at improving the integration with business applications utilizing the ADO.NET Entity Framework or the OpenAccess ORM. (You can see the new data source components in action in the free webinar tomorrow, Tuesday , Jul 20, 11 am EST. Just register for What’s New in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms. During the live event attendees will also have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection, valued at $1999). Prior to the Q2 2010 Telerik Reporting release, the only option for connecting a report to an existing entity model...
  • Release

    What's new in Telerik TileView control for Silverlight/WPF

    With the Q2 2010 release, RadTileView supports two major new features: Animation optimization By setting the IsAnimationOptimized property to True, you can turn on the animation optimization. This optimization should be used only when necessary i.e. in scenarios where the visual tree of the TileViewItem is quite large and the animations do not run smooth. Scrolling of the minimized items  If the sum of the minimized heights/widths of all minimized TileViewItems exceeds the available space, RadTileView will show a ScrollBar allowing you to scroll the minimized items.   This article will show you how to put a GridSplitter between the maximized item and the minimized item and...
    July 19, 2010