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  • Desktop WinForms

    Export Beyond Excel with RadGridView for WinForms

    The RadControls for WinForms Q2 2010 beta release has been live for a couple of weeks now, and we have been getting excellent feedback on the fancy new features. Along with several brand new components (RadListControl, RadPageView and RadDesktopAlert to name a few), we have introduced a completely redesigned grid, along with numerous new features and possibilities. Up until now we have supported Export to Excel capabilities in RadGridView, and not much more. Although ExportToExcelML offers some cool and unique features, exporting only to Excel was not enough for our clients. Our integration with Telerik Reporting could not suit all of our client's requirements either. Now,...
  • Release

    Q2'10 Pre-Release Series: HTML Editor joins the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

    We are only few days away from our big Q2 2010 release and the energy and excitement is already building around the huge improvements in this release. Our products are being wrapped up with final touches, getting ready to pop in your Client Accounts. So is our ASP.NET MVC Extensions suite, growing with the next load of 5 UI Extensions, major Grid enhancements and Visual Studio Extensions Package. A major highlight will be the introduction of HTML Editor for ASP.NET MVC. The Editor will be released in Beta, designed to provide the core HTML rendering engine and the basic text formatting...
  • Productivity Testing

    A look under the hood at WebUI Test Studio's Execution Engine (Part 2 of 2)

    In Part 1 we looked at how we can use WebUI Test Studio’s Execution engine to execute tests either using an individual test or a group of test within a test list.  In Part 2, we are going to look at how we can take the results of our execution and publish them to a non-default location. Let’s take a look at the first two options for results publishing, out=[folder path] and root=[folder path]. The out=[folder path] option allows us to copy our results file to any directory on our computer.  For example, let’s say that we multiple projects ...
    July 07, 2010
  • Web

    WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: CUD Operations and Validation

    This article is Part 2 of the series Silverlight Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part I: The Basics WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: Create, Update, Delete and Validation Introducing Telerik OpenAccess Data Service Wizard WCF Data Services with Telerik OpenAccess ORM WCF End Points Services with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Silverlight Applications for Windows Azure with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part I: Connection to SQL Azure Silverlight Applications for Windows Azure with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: Developing the Silverlight Client and Deploying the Application Go Back at the Beginning In Part 1, we introduced...
    July 06, 2010
  • Productivity Testing

    Using the new Image Verification feature

    With the release of Q2 (coming in couple of weeks), our WebUI Test Studio will enable customers to build image verifications against specific elements on their pages. Image verification can be used to verify exact visual matches for both HTML pages and Silverlight applications. To record an Image Verification step in WebUI Test Studio, follow the steps below: 1. On the recorder toolbar, enable the highlighting surface: 2.  Hover over the element on the page that you wish to visually verify. For this example, I have navigated to the google.com home page and I’m going to verify the Google logo ...
    July 06, 2010
  • Web

    Frozen / Pinned rows in RadGridView for Silverlight

    A common UX pattern when working with large tabular data is the so called frozen rows or pinned rows. This is very popular in the spreadsheet world and in some text editors as well.     I have tried to resemble this behavior with RadGridView for Silverlight. The user may pin a row thus preventing it from vertical scrolling. This way important items may be kept inside the viewport regardless the position of the vertical scrollbar. Pinned items remain on top for easy access.   Adding this behavior to RadGridView is simple and painless: <telerik:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" > <i:Interaction.Behaviors> <local:FrozenRowsBehavior/> </i:Interaction.Behaviors> </telerik:RadGridView>   These lines should be all the XAML needed to enable it....
    July 05, 2010
  • Release

    Introducing Cell Copy & Paste in RadGridView for WPF+Silverlight

    Our upcoming 2010 Q2 version packs a lot of goodies. One of them is the totally revamped Clipboard support in RadGridView for WPF and Silverlight. Made possible by cell selection which will also be introduced in Q2, the new and improved Clipboard capability is both robust, easy to use and very extensible. By default, users can both copy and paste cells. However, the RadGridView has two additional properties - ClipboardCopyMode and ClipboardPasteMode, which provide thorough control over Clipboard operations. You will be able to choose whether users can copy cells, column headers and/or column footers, or control how pasting works - skip...
  • Desktop WPF

    How to: Validate data with SL/WPF RadGridView Part II – asynchronous validation on item/row level via RIA services and INotifyDataErrorInfo interface

    In my previous post I’ve tried to explain RadGridView validation mechanism and support for 2 layers of validation (UI and Data) for a property/cell level. RadGridView exposes same events on a row level too (RowValidating, RowValidated and RowEditEnded). Since this theory you can find on our online help I’ll begin with the interesting stuff - asynchronous validation example.   I’m glad to announce that with the next (2010.Q2) version RadGridView will support asynchronous validation. By asynchronous validation I mean that RadGridView can save a value in its collection and from somewhere (server side usually) to receive a message that this value doesn’t pass some...
  • Release

    Q2'10 Pre-Release Series: WebUI Test Studio Brings Silverlight Test Automation in the Focus

    Not long after the official launch of our automated testing tools, Telerik’s WebUI Test Studio product team is ready to show you some new bits. Listening to your real-life testing issues and dogfooding Telerik product teams helped a lot to come out with a nice set of features and enhancements such as support for Silverlight out-of-browser testing, Silverlight ChildWindows and Pop-ups, image verification, and many more. You surely remember WebUI Test Studio was the first automated testing solution on the market to provide support for Silverlight UI recording and playback. With Q2 we take Silverlight test automation a step further by...
  • Productivity Testing

    A look under the hood at WebUI Test Studio's Execution Engine (Part 1 of 2)

    WebUI Test Studio comes with two options for test execution.  The first is the result of our tight integration with Visual Studio and uses MSTest.exe.  The second, and the subject of this post, is the built-in execution engine ArtOfTest.Runner.exe.  In this post we will look at all the command line options for the ArtOfTest.Runner.exe.  In Part 1 we will look at the two execution command line options as well as how to simplify working with the command prompt.  Part 2 will be dedicated to showing the flexibility of the execution engine by showing the results publishing options. The ArtOfTest.Runner.exe is ...
    July 02, 2010