Joseph Gershgorin
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Joseph Gershgorin
asked on 07 Aug 2009, 06:32 PM
I'm trying to evaluate the the Telerik controls for Silverlight for our company. I installed the latest trial download available as of yesterday but when I attempt to open the Visual Studio example solutions file on my Windows 7 RTM system running Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with all the Silverlight 3 RTM bits then Visual Studio prompts me to go through to the solution conversion wizard, which I have it do. Then when I try to compile there's about 30-60 various different errors that make the solution uncompilable.
Also clicking the documentation link on the start menu makes this error appear:
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Microsoft Document Explorer
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Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://telerik.windows.controls.silverlight' is invalid.
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OK
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Is the trial not compatible with Silverlight 3 RTW? If so, I think RTW has been out long enough to provide working trial by this date, or at least notify the user that the trial isn't compatible with 3 RTW yet.
These issues are not very comforting to a developer looking for a company where these types of quality control issues shouldn't show up.
Thanks for any feedback you could provide. I'm possibly interested in the Silverlight scheduling control, and Telerik is the only game in town....
Edit: I should mention that I'm running the 64bit version of Windows 7. I was able to fix the documentation link by running "C:\Program Files (x86)\telerik\RadControls for Silverlight Q2 2009\Documentation\RegisterHelp.bat"
Also clicking the documentation link on the start menu makes this error appear:
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Microsoft Document Explorer
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Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://telerik.windows.controls.silverlight' is invalid.
---------------------------
OK
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Is the trial not compatible with Silverlight 3 RTW? If so, I think RTW has been out long enough to provide working trial by this date, or at least notify the user that the trial isn't compatible with 3 RTW yet.
These issues are not very comforting to a developer looking for a company where these types of quality control issues shouldn't show up.
Thanks for any feedback you could provide. I'm possibly interested in the Silverlight scheduling control, and Telerik is the only game in town....
Edit: I should mention that I'm running the 64bit version of Windows 7. I was able to fix the documentation link by running "C:\Program Files (x86)\telerik\RadControls for Silverlight Q2 2009\Documentation\RegisterHelp.bat"
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Joseph Gershgorin
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answered on 07 Aug 2009, 08:52 PM
Ok, got the C# projects in the example solution to build by:
1.) Excluding the VB.NET projects (they may work now, but a lot of errors were coming from them, and I don't develop in in VB so I excluded them from the solution).
2.) Downloading/overwriting the current .dlls with the latest internal build .dlls from this thread:
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/general-discussions/radcontrols-evaluation-trial.aspx
3.) Deleting
System.Windows.Data.dll
System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll
System.Windows.Controls.Data.Design.dll
from RadControls_for_Silverlight_2009_2_724_trial.zip, these are Microsoft assemblies and shouldn't be included for developers, they collided with the SDK .dlls and caused errors.
4.) In Example.xaml.cs changed SelectionMode.Single and SelectionMode.Multiple to Controls.SelectionMode.Single and Controls.SelectionMode.Multiple;
1.) Excluding the VB.NET projects (they may work now, but a lot of errors were coming from them, and I don't develop in in VB so I excluded them from the solution).
2.) Downloading/overwriting the current .dlls with the latest internal build .dlls from this thread:
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/general-discussions/radcontrols-evaluation-trial.aspx
3.) Deleting
System.Windows.Data.dll
System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll
System.Windows.Controls.Data.Design.dll
from RadControls_for_Silverlight_2009_2_724_trial.zip, these are Microsoft assemblies and shouldn't be included for developers, they collided with the SDK .dlls and caused errors.
4.) In Example.xaml.cs changed SelectionMode.Single and SelectionMode.Multiple to Controls.SelectionMode.Single and Controls.SelectionMode.Multiple;
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Hello Joseph Gershgorin,
Thank you for your interest in our Rad Controls for Silverlight.
We are releasing our official SL3 build later today with the Q2.Sp1 release. The internal release you are mentioning do not have a SL3 compatible examples project - that is why the VS2008 prompted you to convert the project and that is why you needed to perform the manual changes.
Please download the Q2.SP1 release ( later today or tommorow) and let us know if you have any problems with the Scheduler componenet or with any other control.
All the best,
Valentin.Stoychev
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Thank you for your interest in our Rad Controls for Silverlight.
We are releasing our official SL3 build later today with the Q2.Sp1 release. The internal release you are mentioning do not have a SL3 compatible examples project - that is why the VS2008 prompted you to convert the project and that is why you needed to perform the manual changes.
Please download the Q2.SP1 release ( later today or tommorow) and let us know if you have any problems with the Scheduler componenet or with any other control.
All the best,
Valentin.Stoychev
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Joseph Gershgorin
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answered on 15 Aug 2009, 12:44 AM
Got the new verison. I still had to exclude that VB.NET projects as there was an error of an unknown property in GridView. I don't really care since I don't use VB.NET, but your quality control should look into that.
Also it's probably not a good idea to use .NET RIA services as a requirement to build the sample project as .NET RIA services changes/updates often. At the very least mention .NET RIA services is required to build the samples in your trial download link.
Also it's probably not a good idea to use .NET RIA services as a requirement to build the sample project as .NET RIA services changes/updates often. At the very least mention .NET RIA services is required to build the samples in your trial download link.
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Hi Joseph Gershgorin,
thanks for the feedback. I added 1000 Telerik points to your acount.
We will see how to avoid the dependency on RIA Services in a future release.
Best wishes,
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thanks for the feedback. I added 1000 Telerik points to your acount.
We will see how to avoid the dependency on RIA Services in a future release.
Best wishes,
Valentin.Stoychev
the Telerik team
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