Last week Telerik released the December CTP of the Data
Services Wizard. I posted on my blog a
video that shows how to get started, however, for those of you that like walkthroughs
better, here is one using a WCF Data Services (Astoria) service.
Getting Started: Mapping Data With OpenAccess
To get started, first download and
install the Data Services Wizard. After that, fire up Visual Studio and create a new
Class library application named Telerik.DSW.Demo.Astoria.DAL. Run
the OpenAccess “Enable Project to use ORM” wizard and then run the Reverse Mapping
Wizard and map to your database. For this demo I mapped the Northwind database.
Map as many tables as you...
Don't worry if you have missed the chance to see the live webinar -- the recorded version is now available on Telerik TV.
Also the Telerik Twitter and Facebook Contests are up and running -- get there for a chance to win a FREE license (worth $2,499) Tweet your favorite WebUI Test Studio 2.0 feature (make sure to use double tag #Telerik #WebUI and follow the official @Telerik) or post it on our Facebook wall (you should be a Telerik fan before doing so) and you might win a WebUI Test Studio license worth $2,499! The winners will be ...
Telerik announced today that RadControls for Silverlight 4 CTP is
the first UI component suite to natively support Microsoft Silverlight
4 Beta and to provide support for the right mouse click feature
introduced with the latest Microsoft Silverlight release. The Silverlight 4 Beta version delivers powerful capabilities to
business application developers strengthening its position as the
number one choice for building business applications on the Web. RadControls ensure that developers can use RadControls for
Silverlight 4 with the latest Silverlight 4 Beta version and start building
their applications today. With the Silverlight 4 Beta release Microsoft
announced support for conventional desktop interaction models through
new features such as right-click context...
It was time to spend a little time to update the UI of the Tools included in the RadControls for WinForms suite. Not because we did not like the old design - quite the contrary - the green Telerik theme was quite impressive back in the day, when we introduced it:
Rather, we felt that we need a more modern and minimalistic look, one that is more innovative, even corporate. As a result, as of Q3 2009 the WinForms Tools use the Office 2007 Black theme in out tools. Enjoy! Visual Style Builder The new skin in the Visual Style Builder emphasizes the details...
I am posting this on behalf of the editor team here at Telerik. It has been a really great experience to work with the folks at the Royal National Institute of the Blind People (RNIB) and Content and Code. The folks at RNIB helped us a lot to improve the accessible feature set of RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX and we are very happy with the results. We are proud to be the chosen component vendor for an accessible HTML editor. The required changes to the editor client code were not difficult and added the needed features for blind and partially sighted people. Some...
In one of my previous blog posts I have explained how to display hierarchical data with Row Details. Now, if you are familiar with Row Details features, you know that you are not limited to showing the details inside RadGridView. You can show them anywhere by using the handy external DetailsPresenter. As a matter of fact, each GridViewRow has one of those DetailsPresenter’s inside its template. So you will be using the same class that we are using internally to show the details of each single row. The documentation states that in order to display Row Details outside RadGridView, you need to place...
The new major release of WebUI Test Studio is now officially live! You can get the bits from your Telerik account and enjoy the powerful AJAX and Silverlight test automation. Before I dig into the recent updates, I’d like to thank all involved from the ArtOfTest and Telerik teams for the great release! The numerous new features and tons of improvements made this dream come true – WebUI Test Studio v2.0 is a must-have tool for all of the Web automation addicted. I’d also like to say a big “Thanks” to all of you - our customers, who constantly ...
We have just released the first service pack for Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Here are the most important changes: The Grid<T>(T item) method has been removed (for good). This means you can no longer use the following syntax: Html.Telerik.Grid(new { Text="", Age=0}) .Columns(columns => { columns.Add(o => o.Text); columns.Add(o => o.Age); })
The reason is that this prevented type inference in some regularly used cases – the C# compiler preferred that method instead of Grid<T>(IEnumerable<T> dataSource). This forum thread shows...
As we received a lot of questions on how to add a ScrollViewer to the RadMenu control for Silverlight, in this blog post I am going to explain how you can achieve this.
Adding a ScrollViewer to RadMenu for Silverlight can be easily accomplished using Expression Blend. Step 1. Create a new Silverlight 3 Application. Step 2. Add references to Telerik.Windows.Controls.dll and Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll in your project. Step 3. Drag RadMenu and RadMenuItem controls from the Toolbox and drop them on the design surface. Step 4. Right-click on one of the RadMenuItems and select EditStyle or select it and from the menu by choosing Object -> Edit Style ->...
For anyone who has been paying attention, Microsoft has announced a fair number of changes and new things for us to play with over the past few weeks, suspiciously all surrounding the PDC conference in LA. One of the biggest announcements was the Silverlight 4 beta, which I know we're all anxiously playing with, but the other was the (much needed) overhaul to .Net RIA Services, which has been re-branded as WCF Ria Services. So what's in a new name? Well a host of improvements, but our friend Brad Abrams covered that more than well in his Welcome to WCF RIA Services...