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    Speaking at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,66d27cc1-d4a8-4221-9338-c8ae88cbcc21.aspx";digg_title = "Speaking at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; On Monday and Tuesday I will speaking at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria. I’ll be doing my Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts and RESTful applications with Microsoft Tools sessions as well as the Daily Scrum talk with Remi Caron. Chris Sells is doing a keynote on Oslo and Central Europe DPE lead Luka Debeljak will be doing a keynote on Azure. Should be great. Hope to see you there.
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    The Telerik CAB Enabling Kit and SCSF - Tutorial 5: The RadPanelBar UIExtensionSite

    Welcome to the fifth tutorial in my series of tutorials about the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit. This week, we will learn how to use the RadPanelBar UIExtensionSite. I will be using a TCEK enabled smart client application as the base for this tutorial. I’ve also created a simple module called the Asset Manager module that I will use in this tutorial. The Asset Manager Module The asset manager module is a basic CAB module that contains one view, the AssetListing view. The AssetListing view contains a RadGridView bound to a list of asset business objects. The business object, called “Asset”, contains ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web

    Quick and painless Byte Array to Image converter for RadGridView for Silverlight

    We received a question today in regards to a binding issue with RadGridView, or rather an issue with an Image in a custom cell template that the customer was trying to bind to a custom value.  They had the basic setup right: <DataTemplate>    <Image Source="{Binding ImageData}" /> </DataTemplate> But something wasn't quite working right.  After doing a little digging, we found that they weren't sending a URI to the Image but rather a byte array.  Unfortunately, the Image control in Silverlight doesn't quite know how to pick up on this so you need to convince it- with a converter. With a little bit of coding...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    WebAii Testing Framework Support for Extended Silverlight RadControls

    There is about a month left to the major Q3 release and the free Web Automation Framework has been steadily evolving. We have just released an important update I highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in the easy test automation for both ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight based applications with or without RadControls on the board. The list of release notes is quite long including updates to all the components – the WebAii core framework, the product installer, WebAii RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight control wrappers. There are significant improvements especially in the Silverlight automation. Here I’d like ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Performance Optimization

    For those of you who have missed the live webinar last week a recording is now available on Telerik TV. There are plenty of tips how to optimize your ASP.NET AJAX applications and especially those with RadGrid....
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Navigation for CoverFlow

    The Silverlight team decided to remove the ScrollBar control that used to be part of CoverFlow's control template. One of the reasons behind this decision is the easiness by which you can now, using Silverlight 3 element binding, create your own navigation. To learn more about all changes introduced by the beta version check my previous blog post here. This article explains in details how to create your own navigation using a range control, e.g. one that inherits from the RangeBase class. The first thing we need to do is to declare a CoverFlow control with some items in a straight-forward...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART II [example: Conditional formatting of cells in RadGridView for WPF and Silverlight]   Lets say we have a list of products and we need to mark higher prices (>15.00)  with a red color. Something like :     First lets try it with RadGridView for WPF : We have to create a small IValueConverter. It will take care to convert the value of the price to the appropriate color: 1: public class PriceToColorConverter : IValueConverter 2: { 3: public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Making a Step chart in RadChart for Silverlight and WPF

    So a customer emailed into our office yesterday asking about whether RadChart for Silverlight supported a Step chart type.  Well, while we do have a boatload of chart types already, Step is currently not one of them.  But a Step chart is really just a Line chart with a bit of extra work, right?  With the help of our chart wizard Manol, we were able to show that the LineSeriesDefinition could, in fact, replicate a Step chart.  But that was with setting all points manually and took a bit of thinking to make sure all the steps looked right.  So...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Draggable Series Items In RadChart for WinForms

    A few weeks ago, someone asked me if the RadChart supported dragging the series items around. The simple answer to this question is no, there is no out-of-the-box support for this feature in the RadChart. I was curious though, so I decided to try my hand at making this concept into a reality. What follows is the code I came up with to do it. Figure 1. The Final Result Fields and Constructor In the constructor I am basically generating a bunch of random values to use in the chart. As you can see, I am actually using two series. The ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART I [example: Adding an ‘Insert new row’ button to RadGridView ] Certain scenarios require adding additional behaviors and/or visuals to RadGridView. Implementing these as integrated features in RadGridView is not always appropriate as they may serve quite specific client scenarios or may require customization beyond the power of a common integrated feature. According to the canons of WPF and Silverlight such tasks should be easily achieved by modifying the default control template and adding the necessary visuals (e.g. user controls with some additional logic included). My experience with clients shows that such approach is sometimes kind-of frustrating as it often involves...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read