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...
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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...
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...
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...
At Telerik we take great pride in having the most comprehensible component suites on the market. We always strive to make our components easier and more pleasant to work with. When we first released the Visual Studio Extensions, we made a commitment to make being successful with our components as easy as possible. Here are some of my favorite new features: Keeping up to date In the past we offered a possibility to upgrade your existing projects using the latest versions available through our website. In addition to that functionality, we now let you check for new versions whenever you are...
One of the features that has inspired the TeamPulse team over the years is Static Code Analysis. In Visual Studio 2010 (Premium and higher) you have the ability to have Visual Studio perform a check on your code to see how well your code conforms to different coding best practices. You can have Visual Studio check for how to best declare error handlers, or even making sure that you dispose of your objects before they go out of scope - it’s like having a fully automated code review without the need for anyone to actually review your code. What’s ...
Task-It Series This post is part of a series of blog
posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I
have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for
Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here.
One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download
for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in
this post. The page state issue One of the great things about MEF is that it allows you to maintain state across pages. So basically, when a user spends some time on a page and makes some changes, then...
As we all know Q1 introduced a complete new face of OpenAccess ORM. That of course brought some uncertainties between our older customers that had already built their projects based on models generated by the Reverse Mapping Wizard. Well in Q2 amongst all the other goodies, we are introducing a new Upgrade Model Tool which is targeted for older projects which are still in the phase of development. What is the idea behind it - basically it converts all of your persistent classes into one Entity Diagram where you can continue working with your domain model in this great Visual...
Yesterday Telerik released
the Q2 version of OpenAccess
ORM as well as the rest of the product line. Yesterday (Part
I) I showed you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Today
I will show you round tripping. Next week I will talk about RIA Services and model
first.
OpenAccess Q2’s new LINQ implementation and Visual Designer introduces database round
tripping. Now you can make changes in your model and persist them to your database
table. (You always had the ability to make a database schema change and refresh your
model.) Let’s see this feature in action. The Model Schema Explorer gives you a view
of your mapped entities. If...
The Q2 release is finally here and I am excited to talk about some of the changes in one of the newer controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Suite – the RadAsyncUpload. If you browse the live demos, you may not notice any differences immediately, but that’s simply because most of the changes are under the hood. Let’s have a look… First the most important new feature, seen above – Multiple file selection! RadAsyncUpload now allows users to select multiple files at once in the File Selection dialog which is very handy in scenarios where uploading a large number of...