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  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight Q1'09: Theming

    Q1'09 was a huge release for the Telerik Silverlight controls - the Docking, GridView, Chart, MaskedTextBox, Toolbar, and ColorPicker controls are now official. We also shipped the first CTP of the rich text editor for Silverlight - RadEditor. If you missed - we also redesigned our demos application. Not only we shipped all these new controls, but we also spent a lot of efforts to ensure that our themes are with top quality. For all the controls we shipped 3 themes - Vista, Office and Summer. We made the needed adjustments to ensure that they are editable in the latest version of Blend - Blend2SP1. Along with these changes we added styles...
    March 17, 2009
  • Web

    Silverlight: RadChart interoperability with ASP.NET

    Now that the RadChart control has officially joined the Silverlight party you are probably considering how to incorporate this jewel in all of your web projects. Probably most of you do not have the luxury to start over from scratch and implement pure Silverlight solutions abandoning all of your ASP.NET knowledge and legacy. With this blog post I will try to provide a simple demonstration how you can take advantage of the RadChart for Silverlight and easily add it to your current ASP.NET web applications. You'll also see how you can update some of the chart properties directly from your ASP.NET...
    March 17, 2009
  • Release

    "RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX VS Extensions" available for Visual studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008

    In case you missed the announcement last week, check out Erjan's blog post  about our new product called RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX VS Extensions  (Click here  to download it). It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 and expands the capabilities of the IDE by allowing developers to create RadControls  Item templates. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX VS Extensions using T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) to generate the code behind the scenes when an Item Template is added to a project. T4 is a fully customizable text generator based on templates. Anyone can create or edit such a template...
    March 16, 2009
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadScheduler for WinForms has learned some nice new tricks

    The long awaited Q1 2009 release is finally out and with it comes a greatly improved version of RadScheduler for WinForms. Among the more interesting new features of RadScheduler are: Multi-day view   Notice how there are two date time intervals shown – (13 – 14 March) and (17 – 19 March). Brand new iCalendar import / export functionality which will allow you to make applications with RadScheduler that can exchange appointment data with Outlook. (Dedicated blog post to follow soon.) Now combine that nice iCal import / export functionality with data binding and you have…you guessed it – support for storing recurrence rules for appointments in...
    March 16, 2009
  • Productivity Testing

    WebUI Test Studio Officially Released!

    The official release of Telerik WebUI Test Studio is finally out! The Q1 2009 bits were uploaded last Thursday, March 12. For those who are interested in the product and especially the ones that downloaded the BETA test studio, I’d like to call your attention to the new features since the Beta update announced two weeks ago. First of all, the RadControls translators are updated to reflect the latest changes in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite. Due to the major improvements in the skins most of the translators needed modification. In other words, make sure you run the Q1 ...
    March 16, 2009
  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting: Connecting to Stored Procedures

    I’ve blogged in the past about the many ways you can connect your reports to data. Because the developers who build Telerik’s Reporting Tool wanted to make it as flexible as possible, they designed it to have the ability to bind to any object that implements one of the four supported interfaces: IEnumerable, IListSource, ITypedList, and IDbDataAdapter. What does this mean for you? No matter where your data comes from – plain SQL queries, stored procedures, web services, etc – you can bind it to a Telerik report. Okay, I realize that showing an example is much more effective than just talking...
    March 14, 2009
  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2009 is here!

    RadGridView is no longer beta: RadChart joined the party: And the very first version of RadEditor is out: Stay tuned – more detailed info will come!...
  • Release

    New Release Q1 2009 - RadControls for WinForms

    This week the latest version of the RadControls for WinForms were released by Telerik.  This release features some important changes that you will want to check out.  The release notes provide a full list of all the changes, but I wanted to point out some key features. Versioning While this is not a functional change it is very important to note that this release changes how versioning is handled.  In the past, assemblies were version based (v8.2.0.0). Beginning with the Q1 2009 release, you will notice that assemblies will be release based (v2009.1) and will include the release date as well (v2009.1.Y.Mdd). ...
    March 13, 2009
  • Web

    Working with WCF Web Services in Silverlight, a headache/solution approach

    So if you’re like me, you’re on board with Silverlight and looking to get the most out of your RIA development.  I’ve taken all the advice offered for creating Silverlight apps with WCF services- this video by Tim Heuer has been indispensable, but now we can create a Silverlight Enabled WCF service to avoid the modifications in web.config. When working on an application recently, I was somewhat confused by the error I received after deploying to my local friendly IIS server on the network: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:37:29 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 734   Content-Length:...
    March 12, 2009
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Visual Studio Extensions

    Telerik continues helping you deliver more than expected “Hello, world!” I decided to start my post with these magic words to present you the latest addition to the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX product line: Visual Studio Extensions – the product that makes the development of WebSite/WebApplication with Telerik RadControls faster and easier. A programmer’s very first application is at the distance of starting the IDE and typing the magic words. Creating a RadControls web application is now at a few clicks distance as well. The Visual Studio Extensions aids the Visual Studio Web development from two perspectives – web configuration and...
    March 12, 2009