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Advanced Data Source Engine coming to Telerik Reporting Q1 2010
This is the final blog post from the pre-release series. In it we are going to share with you some of the updates coming to our reporting solution in Q1 2010. A new Declarative Data Source Engine will be added to Telerik Reporting, that will allow full control over data management, and deliver significant gains in rendering performance and memory consumption. Some of the engine’s new features will be: Data source parameters - those parameters will be used to limit data retrieved from the data source to just the data needed for the report. Data source parameters are processed on the data... -
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Silverlight Recruiting Application Part 3.5 - Prism Background and WCF RIA [Series Intermission]
Taking a step back before I dive into the details and full-on coding fun, I wanted to once again respond to a comment on my last post to clear up some things in regards to how I'm setting up my project and some of the choices I've made. Aka, thanks Ben. :) Prism Project Setup For starters, I'm not the ideal use case for a Prism application. In most cases where you've got a one-man team, Prism can be overkill as it is more intended for large teams who are geographically dispersed or in applications that have a larger scale than my Recruiting... -
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How to activate a pane in the Telerik Docking control for WPF and Silverlight?
One very requested scenario when the developers are using a Docking control is to activate a pane on certain user action. For example we may have a pane that contains some kind of output like the one in Visual Studio and when a message is added, the pane should pop-up wherever it is. Another example is the 'Find' dialog of the Visual Studio when the user preses Ctrl+F. This feature could be easily archived with the Telerik Docking control for Silverlight and WPF. In this blog post I will guide you through the implementation of a simple method that accomplishes this task and... -
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Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 2010 Introduces New Visual Designer
Q1 2010 will be a milestone release for our enterprise-grade ORM. With it we will introduce the new Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM. The designer will give developers the ability to map their databases on a specially designed graphical surface as well as perform modifications to the mapping process and the domain model. Some of the features included in the designer are: The DSL Designer – This is a specialized visual editor that visualizes the mapped classes and their relationships. You will be able to easily interact with them with simple point-and-click actions. The designer will also offer a contextual menu... -
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Silverlight Recruiting Application Part 3 - Creating our Prism Shell and Code-Behind Project Setup
Now we're starting to dive into the world of Prism and modular development as well as a very standard, event driven, code-behind way of handling this project- meaning now we finally get to see some code! To start things off, we'll look at the slightly more in-depth approach of beginning an application using Prism/MVVM and what it entails. Also, to make one distinction early on, since I'm using the same database and WCF RIA Services to handle my data transfer, I've created the code-behind project within the same solution, so when I am in the Recruit project or any module, I'm... -
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Q1 Themes Rework for Silverlight and WPF
Everyone likes to look good. We put on our new clothes when we schedule our meetings, show some data or go to the movies. And this spring we all will go freshen up our wardrobes. … For the past year we have been working out showing muscle. Our focus was on performance, feature richness and building a complete tool set. Currently there are 40+ controls in the suite ready, willing and able to work together to bring your Rich Business Applications to the next level. Being where we are it was time to add a touch of brilliance and make them look...March 03, 2010 2 min read -
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Get to know Telerik WebUI Test Studio: Live Demo
Join our webinar to get started with Telerik WebUI Test Studio and see how you can create automated tests in less than 15 minutes. The event will be about half an hour and will take place on Thursday, March 4th @ 11AM EST. We'll also be happy to answer all your questions after the demo. Register here>>March 03, 2010 1 min read -
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UI Virtualization in CoverFlow for Silverlight
While we are still on the crest of a performance wave, I want to spend some time to introduce the power of UI Virtualization in CoverFlow for Silverlight coming with our 2010 Q1 release. The two most common scenarios for using a CoverFlow is either to create a navigation menu that features a small number of items, or to build a browsing control for images or videos that can feature up to a million items. The first case is quiet straight-forward. For a navigation control you generally have no more than 10-12 items which are handled with ease in... -
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Software Productivity Tools-> The Missing Link?
In an op-ed piece in this month’s SD Times, I make the argument that software development productivity tools have evolved over the years to become more mainstream. I make the case that while some developers shun tools, in reality they take for granted the tools they are using today that were not available 10 years or so ago, or were not that mature. For example today we use some tools without even thinking such as: SCM, build management, standards enforcement, ORM and UI components. Tools today save a team a tremendous amount of time and are the missing link in the software development process. You can get... -
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Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Official Release is Just Around the Corner
The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC continue to march triumphantly towards their v1 in the Q1 2010 release. Thanks to your valuable feedback during the past few months, we were able to shape our roadmap and produce the next batch of UI extensions: TreeView, Calendar, DatePicker and a set of 4 Input components - NumericTextBox, CurrencyTextBox, PercentTextBox and IntegerTextBox. All of them are lightweight, semantically rendered, embracing the ASP.NET MVC principles and designed to deliver maximum performance to your MVC applications. The flagship component, Grid for ASP.NET MVC, matures more and more with its latest enhancements. You can now achieve multi-level grouping,...
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