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  • Desktop WinForms

    Sales Dashboard Application for Windows Forms

    Shortly after the Q3 2009 release we developed the Sales Dashboard Application for Windows Forms - a composite business application for visualizing a company’s sales force performance. It is built with the Q3 2009 versions of Telerik’s WinForms components, RadChart for WPF, Telerik OpenAccess ORM, and implements the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for WinForms, which helps in the development of smart-client line-of-business (LOB) applications. Since the interest in this application is still high, we felt the need to have a dedicated place to discuss this application. In case you have not played with it yet, download the source code, and enjoy!   Also check: Silverlight/WPF Sales...
    January 26, 2010
  • People

    Know Excel? Take the quiz and win an HD monitor!

    Do you know Excel? Answer a few quick questions at the Excelerators Quiz site, and find out how you rate. Let me know your results and you could even win a brand new HD monitor from Microsoft! The prize you can win will include a Dell ST2310 23 inch flat panel monitor , keyboard, and mouse. (Over $250 value.) Here is how you can win the goods: Go take the quiz and report here your results in the comments, or ping me on Facebook . Take the quiz between today and February 4th. I will decide the winner and send the results to Microsoft. (Tiebreaker will be a PowerPivot challenge I will...
    January 26, 2010
  • People

    Speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit

    I’ll be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit from April 20-23 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. This will be my second time to the GIDS and it will be hard to top last year’s adventure of Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight, but I will try. I will be speaking on .NET day on: Business Intelligence Design Patterns: BI Made Easy! Sharing Code between .NET and Silverlight (This is mostly on SL 3.0, but will I show how you can do it with SL 4.0 too, which is *much* easier!) On web day I will be speaking about: Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0 Sessions are only...
    January 26, 2010
  • Release

    Reporting Q1 2010 Roadmap

    Last week we published the Telerik Reporting roadmap. Our plans for Q1 2010 (and for 2010 in general) are to give the developer a reporting tool with greater calculating power that will allow for full control over the data management and presentation. Review the Telerik Reporting Roadmap.   The other product roadmaps are also publicly available: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX RadControls for ASP.NET MVC RadControls for WinForms RadControls for Silverlight RadControls for WPF OpenAccess ORM
    January 25, 2010
  • Productivity Reporting

    Show off your reports and shine (Telerik Reporting contest)

    We are running a Reporting case-study contest with cool prizes! Share how Telerik Reporting has helped you in the work you do, what problems/impediments it solved for you, and how Telerik made a difference, and you could win a $500 Amazon gift certificate! For extra exposure of your work, all case studies will be published on our site, and the winner will get the opportunity to publish a video case study of their project on TelerikTV. All you need to do to enter is send a case study on a working Telerik Reporting project that you have developed. The three most interesting case studies...
    January 25, 2010
  • Release

    New Feature: RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF now can export totals to Excel, ExcelML, Word and CSV

    I’m happy to inform you that with our latest internal build you will be able to export the grid totals in all supported formats: Check the attached demo application & enjoy! Download ...
    January 25, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Resolving circular references when binding the MVC Grid

    Sometimes when performing ajax databinding with the MVC grid you may end up with unexpected result: server error 500. What is even stranger is that server-side binding works as expected with the same data binding code. Let’s demystify this problem: The problem You will see the following  if you use FireBug or Fiddler to inspect the response: The error message is “A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type” followed by some type. If you google this up you will find out that this exception is thrown by the JavaScriptSerializer class because of circular references detected. “What the heck is a...
    January 25, 2010
  • Productivity

    Telerik Data Services Wizard New Feature:DataServiceKey

    Last week Telerik released the Data Service Wizard Beta 1. It will automatically create for you the end points for an Astoria, WCF, or RESTful service. New in the beta of the Data Service Wizard is the ability of the wizard to automatically generate the DataServiceKey attribute required to make relationships in Astoria work. When you use "Astoria" (ADO.NET||WCF) Data Services, by default Astoria tries to map the primary keys in your entities using a convention. This is important for your service to work. The mapping works out of the box for the Entity Framework, however, if you are using LINQ to SQL or Telerik Open Access, it does not since some...
    January 23, 2010
  • Web

    Math toolbar for column headers in RadGridView for Silverlight

      A client has recently asked for these little fancy math toolbars in the column header. I found it a great idea and thought it might be useful to share the way of implementing this with RadGridView for Silverlight.   *Since RadGridView for WPF shares the same code base  the approach bellow may be used for both platforms ( Silverlight and WPF ) .   Things are easy with RadGridView !   To have this in your project follow these three easy steps :   1. Copy the MathToolBar user control from the attached sample project (MathToolBar.xaml, MathToolBar.cs). MathToolbarDemo.zip 2. Replace the default header in the column with the user control. <telerik:GridViewDataColumn ... <telerik:GridViewDataColumn.Header> <local:MathToolBar HeaderText="Value1"/> </telerik:GridViewDataColumn.Header> </telerik:GridViewDataColumn>   3. Adjust...
    January 22, 2010
  • Release

    Q1 2010 Telerik RadControls for WinForms Roadmap

    The Q1 2010 release is approaching fast, and we are working overtime to deliver major new features into RadControls for WinForms. A brand new Visual Style Builder is on its way, as well as an updated and optimized GridView data layer, several new grid LOB features, and a new Timeline view for RadScheduler. The RadControls for WinForms Q1 2010 Roadmap is already live on telerik.com and you can view it here: RadControls for WinForms Roadmap Here is a brief overview of the most important improvements: Visual Style Builder (VSB) for WinForms The new version will dramatically reduce the time needed for creating themes for RadControls for...
    January 22, 2010