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Silverlight Chart in 3D
I might be a little late with blogging on the 3-dimensional capabilities of our Silverlight Chart, but you know what people say: better late than never. So, for those of you who did not get the chance to take a look, here is direct link to our online examples: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Chart/Gallery3D/Bar Notice that the Flexible API example now has a checkbox “3D” that switches to Silverlight 3D (as in the WPF counterpart). If you already have experience with our Silverlight 2D charts, you will notice the common API, now available for the 3D chart as well. Here are some screenshots: The available Silverlight 3D chart types...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Are you mouse-bored?
Hi all, First of all let me introduce myself - my name is Nikolay Rusev and I am developer at one of Telerik's ASP.NET teams. I will talk about a couple of the RadGrid sometimes easily overlooked and at the same time unique features - item selection and keyboard navigation. With the new Q2 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX there are a lot of improvements in both directions: enhanced multi row selection using Ctrl and/or Shift keys firing predefined RadGrid command on key events: Edit when Enter key is pressed Update/PerformInsert command on Enter key press when current focused control is... -
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Using Object Container to transport persistent objects between multiple pages
We have talked already what are the best ways to handle the object scope instance in stateless environments like the Web in previous blog posts. We will build up on this and demonstrate additional web techniques, starting with using the same persistent objects on different pages (state sharing). Who needs that? Well let me explain a rather simplified scenario (but a valid one) – web-based wizard. Wizards usually have a workflow, which is produced by connecting web pages in a meaningful way. Every page is responsible for gathering data and providing navigation to the previous and next pages. This means...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
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Today is the day - see the light? Silverlight 3 is finally out!
In fact you can download almost everything even now! Despite all breaking changes between the beta and RTW (System.Windows.Controls.Data => System.ComponentModel = > System.Windows.Data) as always Telerik will follow the good traditions and next week we will release RadControls for Silverlight 3. Stay tuned – more will come!... -
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Using the ObjectContainer in disconnected scenarios
This is the first part of some postings regarding the ObjectContainer and I would like to start with a bit of motivation. Why does the ObjectContainer exist? Because - we felt it is necessary to provide the same OpenAccess runtime environment in all tiers. Ideally, the business logic should not be concerned if it is running in a connected world (where the database can be directly contacted) or in a remote/disconnected tier (where no database can be accessed). The business logic should just find the same API to compile against so that it could be running in both scenarios. This is what the...May 27, 2021 2 min read -
Productivity Testing
Coded UI Tests with WebUI Test Studio Q2 2009
WebUI Test Studio joined the Q2 2009 release this week as well! Although the awaited major new features (such as Silverlight and the extended browsers support) will come with v2.0 in the Q3 release, I’d like to highlight some important changes we introduced. WebUI Test Studio coded test steps Should you have tried our advanced test automation solution or at least watched the videos on Telerik TV, you have noticed its cool tools are designed to ease the life of the test creators helping them generate automated tests simply by mouse clicking. However, WebUI Test Studio also supports ...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
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RadControls for WinForms Documentation Updates Available Through RSS
In an effort to be more transparent with the updates and new topics we add to the RadControls for WinForms documentation, we have started adding all change sets to the WinForms Support Feed. We added 16 updates today, with more to come in the coming weeks. We plan to have a major update of the help for the upcoming Q2 2009 SP1 release, so feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed.MobileWhy doesn’t Telerik offer phone/IM support?
Telerik is well known for the high quality of its support organization and customers are overall quite happy from our responsiveness and helpfulness. Nonetheless, from time to time we’d get inquiries why we are not offering phone support, chat or GoToMeeting as part of our regular support services. After answering several inquiries over the last few months, I decided to blog about it and let everyone know why technical phone support is not offered (at least at present). I’d first like to make a distinction – there is a huge difference between general/pre-sales phone/IM support and technical IM/phone support. We do offer...ProductivityHow to Enhance Projects Using MSBuild on a Machine Without Telerik OpenAccess ORM Installed
Sometimes we need to build Telerik OpenAccess ORM enhanced projects on a machine that has no installation of the OpenAccess product. There are cases that even require that there is no such installation done on the machines like build servers or other machines that handle the build process. On the other hand when Telerik OpenAccess ORM is installed, the project enhancement is automatically done from our Visual Studio integration add-in. The MSBuild integration can be used as an alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio integration and is useful while using the command-line build environment. It is targeted for serving build...May 27, 2021 2 min readReleaseNew Feature: Artificial Fields
Artificial fields, what are they good for? OpenAccess requires a persistent class model to work. This means that data not represented by a field in a persistent class cannot be stored or retrieved. Sometimes you need to add new data to your application during runtime. With many other ORMs you have to add a field to your persistent class, recompile everything and update the database schema. That is a little unhandy and looks like you always need a developer to do so. OpenAccess Artificial Fields can help you to add such new data definitions on the fly. You can specify...May 27, 2021 2 min read
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