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Download Latest Internal Builds
Here is a Christmas present for you (a bit late for Christmas but you will enjoy it anyway)! We have recently released a new page on our website which will give you access to our latest internal builds. These are the distributions built automatically from our source repository and include all latest fixes (new features are usually not included). Regular builds are integral part of our development process and based on continuous QA and feedback we strive to produce the most stable releases possible. If you have experienced any problem with the current official distributions there is a possibility that ...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
Productivity Reporting
"The strange case of Adobe Acrobat" or why do images in Telerik Reports get fuzzy when exported to PDF
First, I would like to wish you all Happy New Year! Hope it brings you everything you have asked for! Now up to today's words (post) of wisdom: In the last couple of days a few people reported that images placed in Telerik Report, which normally look ok, start looking fuzzy when exported to PDF. We got scared for two reasons: This has not been reported prior to our latest release We've introduced new rendering mechanism in the latest release When you combine those, you cannot help but feel that we have somehow messed things up. Fortunately, after a quick investigation, the problem proved... -
Desktop WinForms
Export RadGridView Data to Microsoft Excel
I am sure that most of your data-driven applications require support for Microsoft Excel. Probably the best and most famous spreadsheet application known for data manipulation, MS Excel provides useful features such as calculations, graphing tools and pivot tables – things that are not so easy to do in a regular data-driven application. RadGridView for WinForms offers data export to Excel out of the box, a handy feature that saves you the hassle to do this yourself. It supports two methods for exporting data: • Exporting through Primary Interop Assemblies, optimized for black & white printing. Here we provide a... -
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Passing parameters to a UserControl inside RadWindow for Silverlight
I just wrote a simple application that demonstrates how to databind a treeview to a dummy data source and edit its items in a UserControl, placed in a RadWindow. You could see my other blog posts for examples with web service binding and upgrade the application to suit your needs. To accomplish the requirements, we need to add a property that will contain the edited data item on the UserControl. When the selection in the TreeView changes, we will update that property with the new selection and then open the RadWindow. The UserControl will create a copy of the data item... -
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Announcing the Edge Of Dev
I would like to introduce a new endeavor called "Edge Of Dev". The Edge Of Dev will essentially be me sharing video content that I capture from around the development community. This may be interviews, presentations, open spaces or other content of interest. My hope is that the Edge Of Dev will provide an additional resource for relevant technical information to help you stay informed about what is happening in the development community. The first episode is available on the Edge of Dev website (http://www.edgeofdev.com) so I hope you will take a moment to check it out. This week I am at...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
Productivity
Understanding Where to Set Connection Strings in OpenAccess
When you start working with OpenAccess, one of the first tasks you're going to face is the need set a connection string to your database. And odds are, the connection string you're going to start with is not going to be the connection string your going to use on your production server. It might not even be the connection string your going to use in your test environment. Point is, you need to be able to store multiple connection strings and easily "cue" OpenAccess to use the correct connection details at runtime. Fortunately, OpenAccess makes this easy. UNDERSTANDING OPENACCESS CONNECTIONS First things first:... -
Desktop WPF
WPF: Customizing the chart series appearance in RadChart
RadChart comes with a versatile collection of preset themes (Summer, Vista, Office). At times you may wish to use one of the predefined themes but customize its appearance a bit to fit your specific scenario / application and the control provides easy mechanism to achieve the desired effect. RadChart uses the concept of style palettes in order to style the various chart series. There are distinct style palettes for the various series types (Line, Bar, Pie, etc.) and each palette can contain as many style elements as you want -- the first style is applied to the first chart series of...May 27, 2021 3 min read -
Productivity
Saving a few lines of code. Part III - The power of monads
I won't go into detail about how you could use the maybe monad to save a few lines of code as Daniel Earwicker already blogged about it so you'd better read his post. Basically using the IfNotNull extension method you'll be able to replace lines of code like these: string[] url = SplitUrl(urlString); RecordCompany company = Music.GetCompany("4ad.com"); if (company != null) { Band band = company.GetBand("Pixies"); if (band != null) { Member member = band.GetMember("David"); if (member != null) return member.Role; } } return null; with the following: return Music.GetCompany("4ad.com")... -
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Happy New Year to Everybody!
Time does fly fast! More than a year ago, I wrote a blog post about the then upcoming 2008 and just a wink later it's already 2009! Last year was one that passed by at light speed... I've noticed that when you are at work and you're focused on the daily grind, you often see only the challenges and think about how slow you are progressing. It's great that there are holidays when you slow down a bit and you have time to look back and see that things are much different. At New Year's Eve my wife and I were... -
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Marketing and Silverlight, configuring cross-domain banners
I have been part of Telerik’s Silverlight team for almost a year now, and I too well know that our marketing team is just two floors away to say anything bad about marketing. So I will just say that now having Silverlight 2 in its official version out, marketing mix should adopt one more P in its four P’s concept, Ptechnology. That is why, I will try to explain this topic step by step, so that all marketing guys attracted by the name of this topic can delete the first paragraph and give it to their development teams for consideration....
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