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Web ASP.NET MVC
Building Real Applications with Telerik MVC & OpenAccess – Building the DAL
In this blog post we will create a simple data access layer that allows our UI to interact with our data.February 16, 2010 3 min read -
People
Why do teams succeed?
The story of human achievement is almost always one of teamwork. While we celebrate individual accomplishments, like Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon, it is always the team that makes or breaks the effort. I have always been interested in why teams succeed; it is easy to figure out why teams fail. A lot of time we think that we need a team of “Ninjas” in order to succeed, or a superstar team leader. In reality we need neither the Ninja team nor rock star team leader. For better or worse, I have been leading teams for a long time and I maybe a decent... -
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Telerik RadControls for Silverlight - the concept of performance with facts and examples
We have been asked many times about the performance of our RadControls for Silverlight. We completely understand that “performance” is a key evaluation factor that makes users decide whether to go with a certain product or not. We also know that it is not only the fast performance that turns you, it is also a combination of several key factors, like Feature-set, Slick UI, Better User Experience, Rich API, etc. We have always tried to deliver all these in the best way so that as a result our controls keep on performing extremely fast and at the same time... -
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Q1 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX will require .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
Starting with the Q1 2010 release we’ll be building against .NET 3.5 SP1. This is a new requirement and older releases are still compatible with .NET 3.5 RTM. There is no change in the requirements for the .NET 2.0 builds. Generally speaking, there is no reason why you shouldn’t install .NET 3.5 SP1 on your servers and workstations since this is the current official version of the framework. The reason for this requirement is that we’ll start shipping official .NET 4.0 builds of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX when VS 2010/.NET 4 RTM comes out. The service pack is a prerequisite for using the 4.0... -
Web ASP.NET MVC
Building Real Applications with Telerik MVC & OpenAccess – Building the Model
Using OpenAccess Forward Mapping really allows you to focus on building a strong model, rather than getting caught up in the persistence details, and this can expedite development time dramatically. Every developer I know could use a little more time to focus on more important things :) Before we can use the OpenAccess Forward Mapping Wizard, we need to create a model for our application. After we have a solid model, we can run the wizard, and it will create the database for us! Awesome! Getting Started The first thing that I do is create an abstract base class that all business...February 12, 2010 4 min read -
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... -
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... -
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,WCFWeb ASP.NET AJAXNew 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...Desktop WPFWPF / 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...
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