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  • Productivity Reporting

    Understanding the Telerik Reporting WCF Service

    After working a bit with the Silverlight Report Viewer for Telerik Reporting, it seemed only natural to write a quick post to explain how exactly the Reporting WCF Service (located here in the help file) works and how to quickly and easily get started with it. To start with, why do we need a WCF service for Telerik Reporting?  The answer is that we added a Silverlight Report viewer not too long ago, and in order to get information to a Silverlight client application you need to either use a javascript bridge through the webpage hosting the XAP, which is a slightly clunky...
    February 11, 2010 3 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Items Drag and Drop for RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX

    With the 2010.Q1 release, RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX is getting a fancy new client capability. You will be able to drag list view items around and drop them on other HTML elements, similar to RadGrid's row drag & drop functionality. Setting up RadListView to enable items drag & drop will be a piece of cake. Besides the usual AllowSomeFunctionality-type of property, all you will need to do will be: Use a CSS marker on an HTML element in the ItemTemplate / AlternatingItemTemplate to mark the bounds of a list view item. The content inside your HTML container marked by this CSS...
    February 10, 2010 2 min read
  • Productivity

    How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an AtomPub Endpoint

    .NET Ninja in training, Peter Bahaa, shows us how to build an AtomPub Endpoint using Telerik OpenAccess entities and the Data Services Wizard beta 1. Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1-ATOMPub from Stephen Forte on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: Telerik,AtomPub,WCF
    February 09, 2010 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    New Filtering Menu for RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    Hi everyone, As of Q1 2010 RadGrid will be equipped with a new filtering menu – a powerful and flexible feature the interest in which was sparked by RadGrid’s MVC counterpart offered by Telerik. It will be a sub-part of RadGrid's header context menu and will allow for filtering the grid's data on two conditions related with a logical AND operator: Perhaps, many of you are already eager to know how the new feature should be switched on/off. For this purpose a new property has been introduced into the RadGrid control -RadGrid.EnableHeaderContextFilterMenu/GridTableView.EnableHeaderContextFilterMenu. In addition, it is important that RadGrid.EnableHeaderContextMenu/ GridTableView.EnableHeaderContextMenu and RadGrid.AllowFilteringByColumn/GridTableView.AllowFilteringByColumn properties be...
    February 08, 2010 4 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    WPF / Silverlight: Integrating RadChart and RadContextMenu Controls

    One common request that we are receiving recently is how to integrate the RadChart and RadContextMenu controls so they play nicely together. A typical real-life scenario would probably require that each ChartItem should display different (context-specific) set of menu items. In order to address the increased interest in this functionality we decided to add a new integration example for the Q1 2010 release but for those of you that need something working right now, here is a quick overview of the required steps to add context-specific menu to Bar series items in RadChart (this can be applied to any series...
    February 08, 2010 3 min read
  • People

    Speaking at TechEd North America 2010

    Check out my pre-con at TechEd North America, Joel and I will be speaking on Agile. Register here. :) PRC07 The Agile Methodology Demystified: Implementing Agile in Your Organization Track: Development Practices Speaker(s): Joel Semeniuk, Stephen Forte Agile project management and development methods are being adopted at many development shops. After an introduction to the basics of Agile and Scrum, including: project planning and estimation, the Scrum Master, team, product owner and burn down, and of course the daily Scrum, certified scrum masters Stephen and Joel show many real-world applications of the methodology drawn from their own experience. Negotiating with the business, estimation, and team dynamics are all discussed...
    February 06, 2010 2 min read
  • Productivity

    How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint

    .NET Ninja in training, Peter Bahaa, shows us how to build a WCF Endpoint using Telerik OpenAccess entities and the Data Services Wizard beta 1. Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1-REST Collection from Stephen Forte on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: WCF,REST,Telerik >
    February 05, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Understanding the Report Life Cycle in Telerik Reporting

    Have you ever spent a large amount of time designing a Telerik Report only to discover that its output is not entirely what you expected? This is the type of problem that can occur if you don't have a full understanding of the Report Life Cycle. The Report Life Cycle defines what happens and when it happens in Telerik Reporting. Understanding the Life Cycle is crucial to effectively using Telerik Reporting, which is why I plan on spending some time explaining it in detail today.   The diagram in Figure 1 provides a high level overview of the sequence of events ...
    February 05, 2010 3 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Building Real Applications with Telerik MVC & OpenAccess – Introduction

    Hi every one, I want to take a moment and introduce you to a series I will be writing here on Telerik blogs.  I will be creating an MVC2 application utilizing Telerik MVC extensions, Open Access, and jQuery.  The goal is to discuss real world problems that are faced when building this type of application, and to show solutions to these issues. It will start with building a model, then the DAL, and then move onto UI issues.  I will also show ways to handle large record sets with OA fetch plans/caching, and show some tips/tricks to help keep the UI...
    February 04, 2010 1 min read
  • People

    Telerik LINQ to M Refresh

     SQL Server Modeling (formerly "Oslo") is a new model driven development paradigm. Developers can model their applications using the new M language. M allows you to define a structure for your data as well as represent it in graph based values. Representing values in the M language is very similar to JSON, which will allow you to represent your data in name/value pairs. Here is an example of M values in action: People {      { Id=>1, Name=>"Steve", Age=>36},      { Id=>2, Name=>"Mike", Age=>29} } Last summer, Telerik created the industry’s only LINQ to M (Values) implementation. The Telerik LINQ to M implementation allows the developer to use pure LINQ statements...
    February 04, 2010 1 min read