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RadControls for WinForms Q3 2009 - RadDock Tab Alignment and DragDrop Automation
For the Q3 2009 release, we have added a few important new features to the RadDock. The first of these features is the ability to set the tab strip alignment and/or visibility on DocumentTabStrip and ToolTabStrip instances. The second feature we have added is the ability to implement your own manual drag and drop behavior. Tab Alignment and Visibility When working with ToolTabStrips and DocumentTabStrips in the Q3 release, you will notice that we have added two new properties. The first of these properties, TabStripAlignment, allows you to set the alignment of tabs within their parent TabStrip. The second of these properties, TabStripVisible, ...May 27, 2021 2 min read -
Desktop WinForms
RadControls for WinForms Q3 2009 - HTML-like Text Formatting
The RadMarkupEditor The RadMarkupEditor is a new WYSIWYG editor that has been added to the underlying framework of the RadControls to simplify the task of editing text in HTML-like markup. This editor is available for all Telerik WinForms controls that support HTML-like text formatting. Accessing the RadMarkupEditor is as simple as locating the text property of a particular RadControl in it's properties window. If the RadControl supports Html-like markup, the text property will contain a dropdown button. Clicking on the dropdown button will display a dropdown with a "Start MarkupEditor" button on it. Clicking this button will display the RadMarkupEditor....May 27, 2021 2 min read -
Mobile
What's new in RadControls for Silverlight Q3.2009
Our biggest Silverlight release - Q3.2009 is now officially released. We added ten (yes ten!) new controls to the Silverlight suite: RibbonBar TileView OutlookBar FluidContentControl Book TreeListView (CTP version) Map (CTP version) CoverFlow DropDown Button Split Button And not only this but we made significant performance improvements to the TreeView, TreeListView and GridView controls. Now these controls are using the new UI virtualization logic allowing them to display millions of records. For a full list of changes please check our what's new page. You can check the online demos here, read the documentation here and if you have any feedback on them - please open a support ticket here. A control with which we are... -
Desktop WinForms
RadElement Lifecycle – a WinForms TPF Story
Why new TPF improvement? Knowing that the faster an application loads, the better the overall User Experience is, we put serious efforts in optimizing our presentation framework as much as possible. Since Q3 2009, RadElement, the smallest visual unit in Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) has been given its own lifecycle. The major benefit of this new improvement is significant boost during the loading and disposing stages. Simple tests prove that controls load and dispose between 50% up to 300% faster, depending on the depth of the corresponding element tree, hosted on each control. Some Technical Stuff A RadElement...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
Desktop WinForms
RadScheduler for WinForms data binding and occurrence exceptions
The big [new] feature for Q3 2009 release in RadScheduler for WinForms has got to be the resource grouping functionality. There are, however, numerous other improvements that also deserve attention, such as data binding. Some of you may remember that in its first release the WinForms Scheduler had just basic support for binding to appointment data. Later we extended this functionality to support storing associations to resources in the data source. Well, the Q3 2009 release brings to RadScheduler support for binding to exceptions (through the SchedulerBindingDataSource) out-of-the-box. No, these are not exceptions as in “C# exceptions”...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
Web ASP.NET MVC
Using T4MVC strongly-typed helpers with Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
If you want fast and strongly-typed access to your controller actions, the T4 helpers by David Ebbo are a real treasure. Since we couldn’t provide an support for them out-of the box (after all, the helper classes are generated), here is a small extension method that allows their usage as shown in the screenshot above. using System.Web.Mvc; using Telerik.Web.Mvc; using Telerik.Web.Mvc.Infrastructure; using Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI; public static class NavigationItemBuilderExtensions { public static NavigationItemBuilder<TItem, TBuilder> Action<TItem, TBuilder> (this NavigationItemBuilder<TItem, TBuilder> instance, ActionResult action) where TItem : NavigationItem<TItem> where TBuilder : NavigationItemBuilder<TItem , TBuilder>, IHideObjectMembers { ... -
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Using WCF with SQL Azure and Telerik OpenAccess
digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,d5967a42-df98-4c12-9604-d788928f4b41.aspx";digg_title = "Using WCF with SQL Azure and Telerik OpenAccess";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Microsoft’s SQL Azure database offering has great 3rd party support. This week Telerik is releasing its Q3 version of its entire product line and the OpenAccess ORM will have more robust and native support for SQL Azure over what is currently available. I will expand on the example I did last week on connecting to SQL Azure by showing how to work with OpenAccess entities via WCF in a Silverlight application. The fist thing that you have to do is create a project for your data access layer and connect to SQL Azure. I started a new class library and used the Enable Project to use ORM wizard. This is where you... -
Productivity Testing
Testing.StackExchange – The “StackOverflow” for Software Testers
No doubt StackOverflow.com became a great resource for software developers. As a tester though, I’ve been looking for a good Q&A tester oriented alternative for a long time now. That’s why I really enjoyed the news about Testing.StackExchange site availability. It actually shares the same successful technology as Stack Overflow and has the potential to become as helpful as its brother is. Although it’s still new, I’ve already found some great experts in the software testing field not only signed-in but actively contributing. Credits go to Mr. Justin Hunter who announced the site several weeks ago. Thanks also to Alan ...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
New content providers for the RadEditor and RadFileExplorer controls
The default content provider, that ships with the editor and file explorer controls will only work with files in the current web application. Naturally, there are scenarios where you wish to show files that are not physically in the application folder. The provider model allows you to do just that - you can either customize the existing provider (FileSystemContentProvider) or write a completely new one (FileBrowserContentProvider). We recently went through the forums and noted what custom providers are most frequently used with the RadEditor and RadFileExplorer controls. After that we created sample providers for those scenarios and posted them as support... -
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Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess
digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,b4b60e8a-953b-4cc6-b517-2b30ca985a42.aspx";digg_title = "Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; With the official release of SQL Azure less than three weeks away, we are starting to see mainstream vendor support for SQL Azure. Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM is no exception. With the Q3 release of OpenAccess next week, OpenAccess will have full support for SQL Azure, going further than the basic support available today that I demonstrated on my blog last month. Full wizard support, forward and reverse mapping, and of course data services support via the Telerik Data Services Wizard. Let’s take a look at the basics here. Getting Started To get up and running and show the mapping and LINQ support, I will open Visual Studio 2008 (or 2010) and create a simple Console...
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