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  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s New LINQ Implementation with SQL Azure

    With the Q1 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM, Telerik released a brand new LINQ Implementation and supporting Visual Entity Designer. I have shown in this blog how to connect to SQL Server, MySQL, and how to use the new LINQ with RIA Services. Today I will show you how to connect to SQL Azure. To get started, we have to create a new Telerik Domain Model in the server (ASP.NET) project. We’ll create a new Domain Model by right clicking on the server project and selecting “Add” and choosing the Telerik Domain Model from the menu. In the dialog presented by OpenAccess select the database you...
    July 01, 2010
  • Desktop WPF

    How - to: Change the Default Keyboard Behavior in RadGridView for Silverlight/ WPF

    RadGridView provides a set of keyboard navigation scenarios that will result in certain consequence of commands to be executed. Thus – and naturally in this case - when clicking on the Del–button will cause deletion of the current item, Ins-button will add a new one into the grid. However, there exists a great possibility that you do not need this pre-coded behavior and you want to predefine it. In that case you can follow up one of the following two scenarios. The first one is to use the basic interface responsible for the keyboard navigation – IKeyboardCommandProvider and implement your own...
  • Release

    Q2’10 Pre-Release Series: the XAML Suites Add New Controls, RichTextBox for Silverlight, New Transparent Theme and more

    The spotlight of the Q2 2010 release for RadControls for Silverlight falls on the officially introduced RadRichTextBox for Silverlight, allowing you to bring true MS Word-like content editing experience to your end-users. The new control offers rich text editing and formatting capabilities as well as out-of-browser support and printing. As one of the most demanded features from the Telerik developer community during the preview release, import and export of Html, Docx, and Xaml are already included in the control.  The Q2 2010 release stays faithful to Telerik’s tradition of releasing the same controls for RadControls for Silverlight and WPF, allowing for...
  • Release

    The Telerik CDN – Now with SSL support too!

    A not-so-minor drawback of our original CDN implementation was that it didn’t support secure sites. Your application will still work, but the Telerik controls will fall back to the slower Amazon S3 service when an HTTPS request is detected. But that’s a thing of the past! The Amazon CloudFront service now supports HTTPS Access and you can take advantage of it immediately.   Joy all around Simply set the BaseSecureUrl property to the corresponding values for RadScriptManager/RadStyleSheetManager:  <telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server">    <CdnSettings BaseSecureUrl="https://d2i2wahzwrm1n5.cloudfront.net" TelerikCdn="Enabled" /> </telerik:RadScriptManager>   <telerik:RadStyleSheetManager id="RadStyleSheetManager1"  runat="server" >    <CdnSettings BaseSecureUrl="https://d35islomi5rx1v.cloudfront.net" TelerikCdn="Enabled" /> </telerik:RadStyleSheetManager>  You can also do so through the global web.config settings:  <appSettings>  ...
    June 30, 2010
  • Productivity Testing

    Using jQuery selectors in WebUI Test Studio

    One of the key factors to the increased popularity of jQuery is its powerful selector syntax that can be used to find elements in the DOM. The syntax enables simple selections like selecting an element using an ID (#my_id) to more complex mutli-element selections and filtering. The power and popularity of jQuery selectors prompted many of our customers to request support for similar selection/query syntax in our WebAii Testing Framework. It is worth noting here that WebUI Test Studio is built on top off the WebAii Framework and customers using WebUI Test Studio have full access to the framework API ...
    June 29, 2010
  • People

    Telerik Wins Microsoft Partner of the Year for Central and Eastern Europe

    I am proud to share that Telerik won the Microsoft Partner of the Year award for the CEE region in the ISV category with its Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS product. This award feels very special as we competed with hundreds of companies and some really great products in the ISV space. It's also coming for Sitefinity, a really great web CMS product that is powering the sites of many renown companies (just check out our gallery to browse the 1,000+ showcase items) but which had not won too many major awards so far, unlike Telerik developer tools products which have received hundreds of industry awards throughout the years. What...
  • Release

    Registration for Q2 2010 Webinar Week now open!

    With the Q2 2010 release coming out in just a couple of weeks, it is time for us to announce that the registration for the “What’s New Webinar Week” is now open. For the ones who don’t know about this Telerik tradition, the “What’s New Webinar Week” is held the week after the release and is aimed at allowing you to get to know all about the major new features Telerik is shipping in the new release. You can find the topics of the five webinars and links to their registration pages below. Mon, Jul 19, 11 am EST: What’s...
  • People Accessibility

    RadTreeView for ASP.NET AJAX now supports WAI-ARIA

    Starting with the 2010 Q2 Beta release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadTreeView adheres to the WAI-ARIA specification for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. With this feature on-board, it’s now possible for screen readers and other accessibility tools (supporting WAI-ARIA) to semantically parse the html structure of the tree. Summary of the new feature Making a quick peek inside the html of RadTreeView with enabled support for WAI-ARIA, one can see the “roles”, “states” and “properties” that the standard requires. They all are represented through attributes in the html structure of the tree, decorating the elements with semantic meaning. Having them applied, the...
    June 29, 2010
  • Release

    Two weeks till JustMock's first official appearance.

    Three months have passed since we released the first beta of JustMock. We've improved JustMock quite a lot since then, and we've fixed almost all of the reported problems. We also implemented many requested features. As we announced back in April, we'll make JustMock's first official version part of the Q2 release (round about the 12th of July). Most likely, the first question that comes to mind (if you're considering using JustMock) is "Should I use the first version of this product or should I wait until it is more mature?” I'll try to answer this question by providing a list of what...
    June 29, 2010
  • Release

    Q2'10 Pre-Release Series: Telerik JustMock’s Official Release is Just Around the Corner

    Back in April we introduced a new developer productivity tool called JustMock. Its purpose is to help developers write better unit tests and save time testing their code. The tool spurred a lot of interest and many people were eager to test the beta. This helped us greatly improve the tools functionality and feature set. Q2 2010 is going to be a milestone release for JustMock as we are officially introducing its commercial version. The new version is going to include many new features as well as offer a more robust and swift performance. One of the new features coming with...