We have updated our MVC Forum sample application to use the official ASP.NET MVC 1.0, RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax Q1 2009 and the latest installment of Telerik OpenAccess ORM. Online demo | Download...
Starting from the Q3 '08 release, the jQuery library is an integral part of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. We've posted instructions on how to use the included version in your code and how to enable IntelliSense. The bad news is that the instructions for enabling IntelliSense no longer work with the Q1 '09 version. The reason is that Visual Studio 2008 has a problem with parsing the jQuery library from version 1.3 and up. This required us to come up with a new way to enable IntelliSense. The good news is that the new approach is much cleaner and doesn't require external...
If you are looking for a way to get up to speed on the latest technology, you should consider the devLink Technical Conference (www.devlink.net). This event has been around since 2006, bringing hundreds of people the chance to learn and grow. This is a full three day conference featuring industry experts talking about a variety of relevant topics for developers, architects, database administrators and even project managers. You might think an event like this would cost $1000 or more, but you would be wrong. As a matter of fact, the most amazing thing about devLink is the price. At $100 a...
This Thursday (April 2, 2009), I will be presenting a webinar on the RadScheduler for WinForms. I will demonstrating some of the features and benefits that you can see in the RadScheduler. In this webinar, Telerik Evangelist John Kellar will introduce you to Telerik's RadScheduler for WinForms. Have you had a need to build scheduler functionality into your applications? If so, then this webinar is for you. The RadScheduler offers a variety of features like iCal support, multiple view options and an out of the box appointment dialogs. John will provide an overview of RadScheduler and help you understand all...
Silverlight 3 Beta for developers was unveiled at MIX09 last week. We created a separate build of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight3. Download the bits here (it is available in your client.net account under Downloads > RadControls for Silverlight > Latest Internal Builds). There are no new features to the controls, only that they are compiled against the Silverlight 3 runtime. You can download the controls now and enjoy the latest features added to the Microsoft Silverlight3 platform. Please note that Silverlight3 is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available. If you have any feedback on what you would like...
During a recent webinar, a question was asked about whether you can create a half circle gauge. I recently covered this in my “Introducing RadGauge for WPF” webinar, but thought it would be good to have a quick blog post as well. Below you will see a RadialGauge which contains two RadialScales placed along the left and right of the gauge. This is actually very easy to produce since the RadialGauge is simply a container, you can place a number of scales inside of the gauge. Here is the XAML for the screenshot...
The XmlDataSource control is a data source control that presents XML data to data-bound controls. The XmlDataSource control can be used by data-bound controls to display both hierarchical and tabular data. The XmlDataSource control is typically used to display hierarchical XML data in read-only scenarios. Because the XmlDataSource control extends the HierarchicalDataSourceControl class, it works with hierarchical data. The XmlDataSource control also implements the IDataSource interface and works with tabular, or list-style, data. Page developers use the XmlDataSource control to display XML data using data-bound controls. The XmlDataSource typically loads XML data from an XML file, which is specified by the DataFile property. XML data can also be stored directly...
I’m happy to announce two new episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out on Telerik TV. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Grouping with the RadGrid In this episode I show ASP.NET AJAX developers how to using the built-in grouping feature of the RadGrid. I start by demonstrating how you can enable dynamic grouping by setting just a couple of properties, allowing users to group data at runtime. Next I demonstrate how to...
In our latest release – Q1 2009 – we were focused mostly on addressing known issues and minimizing the memory footprint of RadGridView for WinForms. However, we managed also to steal some time and redesign all of RadGridView’s themes. Some optimizations in our TPF framework helped us with this task. One of the heaviest operations in GDI+ is clipping. We managed to remove the clipping where it wasn’t really needed. This way we achieved two goals with a single shot: first, we got a performance boost, and second, we achieved better graphics and smoothed edges when using shapes. Our new Desert...
That’s right, yours truly will be at the 2009 Boise Code Camp & Tech Fest this Saturday and Sunday delivering a couple of general .NET development talks. If you’re in the area you definitely don’t want to miss out on this event, because it’s going to be huge. There are already 600+ signed up to attend! For my part in all this, I’ll be talking LINQ and ASP.NET. The sessions are tentatively scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Here are the sessions descriptions: LINQ to Everything! So you think you already know everything there is to know about LINQ? You've used it to query your SQL...