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Impressions from Basta Germany Developer Conference
Just coming back from Mainz, Germany where Basta 2009 took place this week. It was a great conference where Telerik provided Silver Sponsorship and very nice lanyards to the approximately 700 attendees. Stephen Forte enjoyed speaking at a German conference for the first time. Check out his post about how to write a WCF service and then call it from Silverlight asynchronously. Telerik OpenAccess ORM expert Jan Blessenohl also gave a presentation on ORM and RIA Services. You can see a photo from our booth on the evening before the show - as usual Telerik was early and well prepared. Many professional developers stopped... -
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Altering OQL queries to generate different JOIN clauses in SQL
As most of you probably know, OQL was the main object-oriented query language that was supported by Telerik OpenAcess ORM before Linq was introduced in .NET. Even though Linq is now the de facto standard for querying data, support for OQL is still there and I would state that it still is pretty convenient to use in some scenarios. We will use this post to share some tips on querying data using the Object Query Language. Consider the following query: IQueryResult projection = scope.GetOqlQuery("SELECT pr.ProductName, cat.CategoryName " + "FROM CategoryExtent AS cat,cat.Products AS pr").Execute(); This query makes...September 24, 2009 2 min read -
Desktop WPF
Sorting, Filtering, Grouping and Aggregating on all CPU cores using RadGridView for WPF and PLINQ
As some of you may already know the Q2 release of RadGridView for WPF ships with a brand new “data engine” entirely based on LINQ. This means that all data operations including sorting, filtering, grouping, aggregating and paging will be pushed down to the IQueryProvider when RadGridView is bound to an IQueryable. For example if you are using LinqToSql, LinqToEntities or OpenAccess ORM all gird operations are executed on the SQL server using the magic of LINQ providers. Staying on the cutting edge I decide to try out PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and enable RadGridView to execute its data operations on all available CPU cores. PLINQ...September 23, 2009 2 min read -
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Telerik Visual Studio Extensions Survey
It has been several months since we have started actively using the Visual Studio Extensions to make the life of Telerik customers easier. We have been regularly introducing enhancements in the extensions and we’d love to hear your feedback on how helpful these are. Please take this survey to help us drive our efforts in the right direction. (500 Telerik points will be added to your account!) For those of you who have been using RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and have not tried the features of the VS extensions package please do so now: Read More or Watch a ...September 22, 2009 1 min read -
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O# or The Fall Conference Speaking Schedule
digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,8d9a457e-c203-43d0-bedd-27336578c997.aspx";digg_title = "O# or The Fall Conference Speaking Schedule";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Every fall, the kids go back to school, the weather gets cooler, Munich kicks off its annual Oktoberfest festival, and the fall conference season heats up. It seems that I always miss Oktoberfest. I had friends who lived in Munich earlier this decade and each year my trips to Mt. Everest got in the way. Now that Telerik has a Munich office, I got to go to Oktoberfest (O#) with geeks. I can see the eyes rolling by the non-technical readers of this blog (basically my Mom is the only non-technical person who reads this blog), however, geeks can drink a lot, judging by how I had to... -
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RadChart for SL/WPF: Data grouping and aggregation
Howdy folks! The RadControls for XAML Q3 Beta1 is out and it features an updated version of the RadChart control. We receive dozens of feature requests every day and one of the more substantial ones is the ability to analyze data with RadChart. The feature I will describe today is a great step in that direction. I’m talking of course about data grouping and aggregation. Just like grouping and aggregate functions are one of the major features of our GridView control they can be used with the charts as well (if you have the beta). Basically the feature allows you to group business... -
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Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard
digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,a7d16ce5-33d4-475b-bb5a-32d38c2a99b4.aspx";digg_title = "Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Over the past few weeks I have showed how to use Telerik OpenAccess with the WCF Wizard. I think that this wizard is a crucial piece of technology since I hate to write plumbing code myself, it takes me too long and I usually make mistakes. I wish that SQL Azure would provide RESTful and WCF services wrapped around your database tables and views with just a check box in the Azure management page. But alas, I can dream. Until that day arrives, you will have to code the services yourself. So I decided to do it with OpenAccess and WCF (and of course the Wizard.) First you... -
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Q3 2009 Beta released for Telerik RadControls for Silverlight/WPF
As Q3 2009 is approaching and there are plenty of new controls and major features coming, we wanted to share with you some of the cool new controls and features that will be officially be released with Q3 2009. This Beta release includes several brand new controls and major additions to the existing controls: Note: All controls (except RadCoverFlow) that are currently available only for the Telerik Silverlight suite will also be included in our WPF offering with the official Q3 2009 release New Controls RadRibbonBar - available only for Telerik Silverlight suite Telerik Silverlight RibbonBar is an easy-to-use implementation of the Microsoft Office 2007... -
Productivity Reporting
Filtering with string parameter that allows free user input
As you probably know, Telerik Reporting comes with built-in parameters and filters. Report parameters allow users to specify or control the data used in a report. They are extremely powerful when used in expressions for filtering, sorting, grouping or even directly provide a value. When used with filters you can limit the number of records in a report based on specified filter rules. If the conditions of the rules are met, the record is included in the report. Let's suppose we have a string parameter that allows free user input, wired up with a filter. This way the user has the freedom to type any word and the report would be filtered based on the parameter... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
RadGrid for ASP.NET Ajax and DomainDataSource
In July Microsoft released a preview of its upcoming Silverlight 3 RIA Services Framework which comes along with a new data source control – DomainDataSource. The DomainDataSource introduces a new way of accessing data by giving us a nice separation from the particular representation of our Data Model and more control over how the data is being retrieved or manipulated. This post will provide you with a quick walk-through on how to use the DomainDataSource with our RadGrid control. Install Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview As mentioned above the DomainDataSource control is part of the MS .NET RIA Services Framework, so...
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