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  • Web

    Using the RadTransitionControl in Task-It - Video

    I have posted a new video about using the RadTransitionControl to create nice transitions between UI elements, UserControls and Pages in my Task-It Silverlight 4 application. You can view the video...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Results Management and Analysis in WebUI Test Studio QA Edition

    I started the series of blog posts on the new QA Edition of WebUI Test Studio 2010 with the Test List Management. In the current article I’m describing the Test Results Management and Analysis capabilities of the brand-new standalone tool. The Result View The test list execution in the QA Edition produces the objects we call Run Results. One can review and manage those results in the Results View:   The Results View in the Standalone represents the run results via RadScheduler. Once you execute your test list we switch to the Results View adding the new result into ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Web

    Task-It Video and Blog Post Index

    Task-It is a sample app (for task management) that I've developed in Silverlight 4 using Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight. As the video and blog post series related to this application continues to grow, it's about time to post an index to the resources. Keep an eye out for new posts, and follow me on Twitter (@rwozniak) if you'd like to be notified when new videos and posts are added!   Videos Intro to Task-It Teaser Video Task-It Webinar - Building a real-world application with Rad Controls for Silverlight 4 Populating the RadGridView with WCF RIA Service data Using RowDetails in RadGridView Using the RadTransitionControl in Task-It Populating the...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • People

    Speaking at Project Management Day in Romania

    I’ll be doing my (in)famous Scrum seminar in Bucharest, Romania on May 26th at Project Management Day, hosted by PMI and Microsoft. My talk is titled “To Scrum or not to Scrum.” Agile project management and development methods are being adopted at many development shops.  After an introduction to the basics of  Agile and Scrum like: project planning and estimation, the Scrum Master, team, product owner and burn down, and of course the daily Scrum, Stephen, a certified scrum master, will show many real world applications of the methodology drawn from his own experience. Negotiating with the business, estimation and team dynamics are all discussed as well as...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Dynamically Loading Telerik Reports with MEF

    So I've been spending some time lately learning to use one of the powerful new features of .NET 4.0, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Using MEF, I thought it would be neat to create an application that allows you to dynamically load Telerik Reports from an assembly without having to recompile your application. Here is how I set it up. Contracts When setting this application up, I wanted to be able to define contracts on my reports so that I could import them into a ReportManager class when the application starts up. However, I didn't want my report objects to be ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Telerik’s new LINQ implementation and MySQL Part II: OData Service and Silverlight App in 30 seconds

    About a month or so ago I showed on this blog how to connect to MySQL using Telerik's new LINQ implementation.  Today I will show you how to take it one step further and build an OData service automatically using the Telerik Data Services Wizard. Just for fun, we will also automatically add a full CRUD Silverlight application that consumes the OData service. We’ll do this all in 30 seconds! To get started, you have to download MySQL 5.x and the MySQL Workbench and also, as my colleague Alexander Filipov at Telerik reminded me, make sure you install the MySQL .NET Connector, which is available here.  I like to use...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    ALT.NET Houston Open Spaces 2010

      So, over the weekend I attended ALT.NET Houston Open Spaces 2010. I wasn't too sure what to expect since I had never been to this type of event before, but I must say, I was pleasantly surprised. Starting on Friday, I attended a free half-day workshop about "Advanced WPF" hosted by Jonathan Birkholz. This five hour workshop went over everything from the basics of WPF, to dependency properties, to making "designable" applications. This workshop successfully cleared up many questions I had about building WPF applications. After the workshop, I unfortunately had to leave a little bit early, but ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Internet Explorer CSS limits

    We all know that Internet Explorer has some bugs. Some of them can even bring down the entire rendering of your page. Like for instance the forced Standards mode crash bug in IE8, which can make your page to disappear completely if you have a floated container with max-height and overflow: scroll. Two such bizarre bugs are these less known limitations in Internet Explorer - the 31 stylesheets per file and the 4095 selectors in a file. Let’s first discuss the more widely known of the two - 31 stylesheets per file If you are an ASP.NET developer and you develop...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Using RadRibbonWindow with RadRibbonBar for WPF

    As you can expect, we have received a lot of great feedback from the community regarding RadRibbonBar.  One thing that people always asked about, however, was how to better integrate the RadRibbonBar into the actual window itself.  This way, rather than having the Window title and RadRibbonBar title both displaying, it would provide for a more seamless user experience.  Well, we listened. :) With our latest release, we have included the RadRibbonWindow to the RadControls for WPF library, allowing you to take the old window + RadRibbon combination and create something a little more visually compelling. First we want to add the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Flexible data conversion with RadGridView for WinForms vNEXT

    One of the new features that will come with the next version of RadGridView is the new data conversion layer. In our daily work we have often got into troubles in visualizing and formatting concrete types as other types. Sometimes the data source is not compatible with the bind target. Hence, you need to create a facade that converts the data to desired type. Let’s say that you bind the grid to a source that is incompatible with the columns that you want to show, for example a GridViewCheckBoxColumn for char field instead of GridViewTextBoxColumn. How can you accomplish that? The new version of RadGridView will...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read