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  • Productivity Testing

    Social Media APIs and Their C# Counterparts

    Whether it's talking about current events or sharing photos of a family vacation, the world is now addicted to social networks. Businesses recognize this, and these days every business wants social media addressed in their applications. Facebook, Twitter, and other sites provide powerful APIs you can use to harness the power of social networking in your own applications. However, most of these APIs tend to return data formatted in any number of syndication formats that can be quite painful to work with. Luckily, there are many free .NET based libraries that make interacting with these APIs a breeze. Over the next several weeks, I'll be posting some information and examples ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Vote in the Telerik Reporting Contest

    The submission stage of the Reporting case-study contest is over, but the voting is not! Review the submissions and cast your vote now. All voters will receive 500 Telerik points. Every case study must be rated on a 1 to 4 scale and the case studies which receive the highest cumulative score will be announced winners on April 8. As with most Telerik contests, your involvement would be vital - it is your voting that would determine the winners of the $500, $300 and $200 Amazon Gift Coupons. Vote now for the best...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Adding Custom Fields to RadScheduler for WinForms Appointments

    When using RadScheduler for WinForms, it will almost always need to be customized in some way. This could come in the form of custom dialogs, context menus, or even custom appointments. In this blog entry, I am going to explain the steps required to add a custom field to RadScheduler. Click here to download the source code and follow along... Adding Custom Fields to Appointments In this example, a custom field for Email will be added to the Appointment class being used by RadScheduler. The process of accomplishing this involves five simple steps. Step 1: Add a Custom Field to the Data Source In order to display ...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Data Binding with RadScheduler for WinForms

    RadScheduler for WinForms is highly customizable component that offers functionality similar to that of the Calendar included with MS Outlook. When working with RadScheduler, developers can easily bind data sources directly to it using an instance of SchedulerBindingDataSource. The provided data source can be in the form of a database or business objects. The only requirement is that the data source must conform to a specific structure and provide specific fields. Today, I will explain how to set up basic data binding in RadScheduler using SchedulerBindingDataSource and an Access database. The Base Application For this entry, it should be noted ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Telerik Surprise Product Hint

    Hello Telerik Developer Community!   What could be a better day for announcing a lil’ contest than the 1st of April? You can't say we've lost our sense of humor. So, it isn’t a joke, and below are a few hints about one of the 3 products Telerik is launching in the near future.   You might have caught a wind of our ‘surprise product’ – http://www.telerik.com/products/surprise . We have now updated the surprise product page with 3 images to give you a hint at what the product does. So, here are the contest details:   From the 3 images posted at surprise product page, guess...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Some fun with RadGridView for Silverlight …literally !

    April Fools' Day is a great excuse for me to do something funny with RadGridView. So today’s post will have less geekness and more fun than usually.   Silverlight being a great platform and RadGridView being enormously flexible control provoked me to do something that you can not exactly call the typical Line-Off-Business application.   So enjoy this small  Pexeso game clone created with the help of RadGridView for Silverlight and some standard Silverlight re-styling techniques. The rules are simple : Try to open two identical cards at the same time. The goal of the game – try to open all cards this way. My best score was...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Conditional styles and templates with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF

    I’m happy to announce that with our upcoming Q1 2010 Service Pack 1 (middle of April) you will be able to apply conditionally styles and templates for RadGridView easily using DataTemplateSelectors and StyleSelectors for both Silverlight and WPF: You can test the new functionally with our upcoming latest internal build this Friday and in the meantime here is an example: XAML <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot"> <Grid.Resources> <local:MyStyleSelector x:Key="styleSelector" /> <local:MyDataTemplateSelector x:Key="templateSelector" /> </Grid.Resources> <telerik:RadGridView AutoGenerateColumns="False" ItemsSource="{Binding}" RowStyleSelector="{StaticResource styleSelector}"> <telerik:RadGridView.Columns> ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadCaptcha for ASP.NET AJAX audio feature available in Q1 2010

    Now that the Q1 2010 release is here, I want to bring your attention to a cool new feature in our RadCaptcha control for ASP.NET AJAX - audio support. Head on over to our online demos to see the feature in action. Enabling this on an existing CAPTCHA is easy - you just need to set the CaptchaImage-EnableCaptchaAudio property to true. Adding this feature to your site will allow blind or partially sighted people to use it as well. The audio support presents some very interesting possibilities for people who like to customize things. For example, you can replace the original audio files...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Navigate Quickly with JustCode and Ctrl+Click

    Ctrl + Click is a widely used shortcut for Go To Definition in many development environments but not in Visual Studio. We, the JustCode team, find it really useful so we added it to Visual Studio. But we didn't stop there - we improved it even further. Read on to find the details. With JustCode you get an enhanced Go To Definition. By default you can execute it in the Visual Studio editor using one of the following shortcuts: Middle Click, Ctrl+Left Click, F12, Ctrl+Enter, Ctrl+B. The first usage of this feature is not much different from the default Visual Studio...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Report Books and Parameters with Telerik Reporting

    Telerik Reporting provides a simple, yet powerful, component called the ReportBook that allows multiple reports to be combined into one. Doing so makes displaying, printing, and exporting multiple reports a much simpler task for end users. Providing this type of functionality does leave one question though, "How are report parameters handled?" This entry will focus on providing the answers to that simple question. Click here to download the sample code so you can follow along. Creating a ReportBook ReportBooks are supported in all three environments the ReportViewer supports, WinForms, Silverlight, and ASP.NET. Adding a ReportBook to each of these environments is very similar. This example focuses on using a ReportBook with ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read