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    Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure Part II-Silverlight

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,e0f4b843-ed75-46b7-9fc5-8d788e3589c8.aspx";digg_title = "Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure Part II-Silverlight";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Yesterday I showed how to use Telerik OpenAccess, Telerik Reporting, and SQL Azure to create reports and view them in ASP.NET. Today i will show how to view that same report in Silverlight using the industry’s first native Silverlight report viewer. All of this is in the Telerik documentation, however, since we have our cool SQL Azure demo already up and running from yesterday, I figured it would be fun to show how to reuse the same report and view it in Silverlight. Getting Started Remember from yesterday that we have three projects in our solution: Telerik.Reporting.DAL-the class library project containing our OpenAccess entities (mapped back to SQL Azure tables) Telerik.Reporting.RptLib-the class library project containing...
    December 02, 2009
  • Web

    How To: Toggle Row Details one at a time with Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight

    If you are familiar with the Row Details feature of RadGridView, you probably have used the VisibleWhenSelected mode in the beginning. In case you have not, you should definitely check out the online example of Row Details. A couple of months after the Row Details debut, we introduced a new type of column called GridViewToggleRowDetailsColumn, which does exactly what its names says – it provides and easy and fast way of toggling the details visibility of individual rows. Now, what if you are using this specialized column, but want to achieve a VisibleWhenSelected-like behavior. Let’s see how to hide the previous row details...
    December 01, 2009
  • Productivity

    Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,fcd86df8-7523-4c31-9015-b085548d0d3f.aspx";digg_title = "Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Telerik Reporting is a great reporting package. If you using it, you may be happy to know that you can use Telerik OpenAccess as a data source. Let’s take a look at how to use it with a SQL Azure Database as a back end. Getting Started First you need to map your SQL Azure tables to OpenAccess entities. I demonstrated this before on my blog, if you have not used OpenAccess and SQL Azure yet, read this post. (Don’t worry I’ll wait.) What I did for this demo is create a library project called Telerik.Reporting.DAL and mapped all of the Northwind tables in my SQL Azure database to OpenAccess entities in...
    December 01, 2009
  • People Accessibility

    RadFormDecorator –Skinned Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Focus Dots and Accessibility

    The sole purpose of this blog post is to answer to frequently asked questions concerning the support of the visual clues (focus dots) of the checkboxes and radio buttons styled with RadFormDecorator. The focus dots that appear upon tabbing on a clickable HTML element (a, input, button, checkbox, radiobutton, etc) is a visual clue showing that the element is accessible via the keyboard or other device facilitating its manipulation. Unfortunately, browsers differ in the support of focus dots. According to the accessibility specifications, a checkbox or radio button has to be associated with a label tag, in order to make the clickable area of the...
    November 30, 2009
  • Web

    Pre-filtering RadGridView for Silverlight

    In the last couple of weeks we have received several requests for a new feature. Imagine that you want to display RadGridView already filtered by a certain criteria. You could always do this in the past by writing something like this: 1: <telerik:RadGridView Name="playersGrid"> 2: <telerik:RadGridView.FilterDescriptors> 3: <telerikData:FilterDescriptor Member="Country" Operator="IsEqualTo" Value="England"/> 4: </telerik:RadGridView.FilterDescriptors> 5: </telerik:RadGridView>   Now, that is perfectly legal and the grid will come up filtered. The filtering UI however, will not be aware of this. Expressed in other words, this feature might sound like this: “I would like to programmatically achieve the same effect that is achieved by filtering the grid with the...
    November 27, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    Standard resources in the edit dialog in Telerik Scheduler for Silverlight/WPF

    As many of you noticed Telerik Scheduler was released with a completely new look of the edit appointment dialog. Some of the things inside the dialog are just redesigned, however some of them are completely new like the categories,time markers and the importance buttons. Today I will give you more information about them:   Categories: There are some built-in categories in RadScheduler and in  its edit dialog. A category can be assigned to an appointment by choosing one from the dialog on through code behind like this: Then the category will appear in the appointment: and in the edit dialog:   You can remove a assigned category by...
    November 27, 2009
  • Release

    Coming up in Q3 2009 SP1 - RadEditor thumbnail support

    One of the cool new features, that will make its way in the Q3 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX service pack release, is the additional thumbnail option in the Image Manager dialog. When you select an image, that ends with a specific suffix (e.g. "_thumb"), and there is an image with the same name but without the suffix in the current folder, the image dialog will offer the ability to automatically create a link to the original and open it in a new browser window. Here is how this will look like:       We hope that this will provide a much quicker...
    November 26, 2009
  • Release

    Quick peek at the new OpenAccess class name generator

    A very common concern in Telerik OpenAccess ORM (as well as almost every other ORM product on the market) is how the names of the classes that represent your database tables are formed. Basically the mechanism for generating such names follows a simple pattern – the database table name is in plural form and the class name in the model is in single form. However, in the past OpenAccess covered a really small area of all the rules present for singularizing a given word. As of Q3 2009 this is not an issue anymore. We have implemented a simple, yet powerful...
    November 25, 2009
  • Productivity

    How to map references and collections – Part 2

    In the first post we have described the ways to map a foreign key reference in the database to a reference, a collection or both in memory. This post continues the topic with the ways to map a join table. A join table is necessary if an m:n relationship has to be stored, but it also can contain the ordering inside a collection or the content of a dictionary. Let’s start with a simple join table in the database schema. Typically a join table contains two foreign key references, one to the left and one to the right table. 1) The natural way...
    November 24, 2009
  • People

    Telerik at PDC 09

    PDC was a true success for Telerik. Armed with over 300 .NET Ninja Stress balls and 1,000 t-shirts including our already popular Geekette and .NET Ninja designs as well as the new JustCode t-shirts we unveiled on Tuesday night, we left Los Angeles empty handed, thankfully. None of us wanted to lug anything back:) Our launch of the new product JustCode – a new solution-wide productivity add-in for VS - was a hit. We had a tremendous turn out for the unveiling announced by Stephen Forte and Todd Anglin while Atanas Korchev presented the demo. Following the announcement, we had...
    November 23, 2009