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Being new to Silverlight
Keeping track of new technology is quite a tedious job. In fact, if you try to catch up with all hot trends in software development you probably will end up having a job as a full time blog reader. In contrast, most software developers are always anxious about stretching their fingers on some actual coding. But the beginning is always the hardest part, even more if you are not patient enough or haven’t had time to watch videos and spent hours reading tutorials. In case you are coming from a different programming background, you are certainly used to specific methods...May 27, 2021 4 min read -
Release
RadControls for WPF – Q1 2009 Service Pack released
This week Telerik released a service pack for the Q1 2009 RadControls for WPF. You can get the full details about the release here (http://www.telerik.com/versionnotes.aspx?id=1896), but I wanted to point out a few highlights that might be of interest. RadGridView A number of features regarding exporting including the addition of ExcelML, an Exporting event TAB navigation improvements Addition of the GridViewComboBox column and much more RadGauge Semi-circle and Quadrant-like styles for Radial Gauges both of which look very sleek. RadChart The Stacked Line and Stacked Spline Chart Types were added to the RadChart available types. RadColorPicker The Color Picker control allows the users to choose a color from more than 20...May 27, 2021 2 min read -
Web
Full support for DomainDataSource with RadGridView for Silverlight 3
I'm happy to announce that with our next service pack you will be able to bind RadGridView completely codeless to DomainDataSource in Silverlight 3: <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition Height="30" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="DomainDataSource1" AutoLoad="True" LoadMethodName="LoadCustomers"> <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext> <localWeb:NorthwindDomainContext /> </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext> </riaControls:DomainDataSource> <telerik:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}" /> <df:DataPager x:Name="DataPager1" Grid.Row="1" PageSize="10" Source="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}" /> </Grid> All operations like paging, sorting and grouping are applied to the REST query with minimal JSON response:... -
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A Recipe For Perfect Software
Although developers have been creating software for decades now it’s still fashionable, isn’t it? By “perfect software” I don’t mean zero bug-bounce only, but the brilliant feature-rich software that customers want to buy and be satisfied with throughout the years! What’s the secret, you wonder? Let me first explain where the problem comes from. I believe it’s really simple. When you develop software for someone out there, a red line appears between you, the developer and them, the users. Your mission becomes their satisfaction. You keep working upon customer requests with a vision from your side of the barrier. There ...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
Desktop WinForms
Performance Monitor using RadChart for WinForms
I have had a few people ask me about using the RadChart in the same manner as Performance Monitor (aka PerfMon). If you are not familiar with PerfMon, it is a tool that has been provided with Microsoft Windows for quite some time. You can open PerfMon by clicking the Start button within Windows, typing “perfmon” in the search box and pressing Enter. PerfMon is a simple utility that displays performance counters. There are a wide variety of counters available, from CPU utilization of process threads to how many times the .NET Garbage Collector has run. The counters PerfMon allows...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
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Free Whitepaper: Understanding the What, Why and How of Reporting Solutions
Often we see requests from our Telerik Reporting clients to produce PDF or HTML representations of tabular data in order to be able to print the data on paper and/or to create a document. Although this is a common scenario, the proper tool or product has to be used in order to get the best possible results. Telerik Reporting supports these document formats, but often it is mistaken for a format conversion tool (say HTML to PDF), rather than a report generation tool, only because it supports these two formats. We also see a common misconception that Telerik Reporting is... -
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Telerik announces Q1 2009 SP1 release of RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight
Q1 2009 SP1 (version 2009.1.413) The latest improvements and additions to both the suites are here and ready for download under the users' accounts. What's New in RadControls for WPF We added three new controls: RadColorPicker Telerik Color Picker control allows the users to choose a color from more than 20 pre-defined palettes. Additionally, custom palettes can also be defined by the users. RadTimePicker Telerik TimePicker control is an easy to use control allowing you to integrate time selection in your web applications. The control exposes an advanced parser that converts numeric values into valid time. Using the templates of the TimePicker control you can... -
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Tweeps, meet digiTweet!
For all you tweeps out there, this is a quick plug for the newest Twitter client on the block, digiTweet. I was first alerted to this new client on Channel 10, and just started using it with my account. I must say I am very pleased. For a beta product, this one gets two thumbs up! It’s built with WPF and is open source (you can find it on CodePlex). I also happen to like the sleek interface. Being a .NET guy, I’m partial to apps that are build with .NET (the Twitter client I’ve been using, TweetDeck, was built with Adobe...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
Desktop WPF
WPF / Silverlight: RadChart PointMark Customization
RadChart supported point mark visual indicators for chart series like Line, Area, Spline, etc. from version one, however, customization of these indicators was hard and certainly not for the faint-hearted. With the latest version of the control released this week (Q1 2009 SP1) we introduced two major improvements that significantly simplify the interaction with the point mark indicators. Option 1: Customizing the appearance of the point marks through the PointMark API and predefined point mark shapes RadChart supports 8 predefined shapes that you can use for the point marks (members of the Telerik.Windows.Controls.Charting.MarkerShape enumeration): Circle (default) Diamond Hexagon Triangle Square SquareRounded StarFiveRay StarEightRay Here is a sample code snippet that demonstrates...May 27, 2021 2 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX on Azure (Part 1)
Those of you paying attention to “conference news” are probably aware of Microsoft’s entrance in to the cloud computing space via their platform code-named “Windows Azure.” This version of “Windows in the cloud” essentially makes it possible to easily build and deploy .NET web applications to Microsoft’s hosted cloud infrastructure. The benefits of deploying your application to the cloud are (potentially) many, but I am going to assume you are already aware of the key “selling points” (such as scalability, scalability, and…oh yeah, scalability). TELERIK IS CLOUD READY I’m pleased to report that Telerik is “Cloud Ready.” This is a bit of...
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