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Desktop WinForms
RadPageView – next generation WinForms navigation control
As the new Q2 2010 release is approaching, we wanted to share some more information about our brand new control RadPageView, meant to supersede existing RadTabStrip and RadPanelBar. “Why yet another tab-strip?” someone would ask. Several are the major reasons that made us create this new control, namely: Extensibility, scalability and ease of use. With the new semantic that lies behind RadPageView, it is very easy to create custom views over a collection of pages. Well thought light element tree, which reduces both memory footprint and User Interaction response time and allows for easy and intuitive styling. Myriad of new features in... -
Web
Manage all Resources and Appointments data for RadScheduler for Silverlight using RIA Services.
This blog post could be helpful for those who seek a way to store and retrieve all appointments information like Resources, TimeMarkers, Categories. It also provides a handy way to handle recurrence exceptions without any additional code. 1. Database design (This step can be avoided if a DataModel is initially created and then a database is generated from it). The key points that need to be taken into consideration when planning the database are: Where to save appointments Where to save recurrent appointments’ exceptions Where to save resources and how to relate them with appointments Here is the database schema used in... -
Release
Q1 2010 SP2 (version 2010.1.603) of Telerik XAML controls is now live
Our latest Service Pack release includes a lot of fixes and improvements in our XAML controls. You can read full release notes at: RadControls for Silverlight Release Notes RadControls for WPF Release Notes To download the files please log into your accounts and go to the Downloads section. The online demos have been updated and available at: Silverlight Online Demos With this release we uploaded the brand new WPF QSF, whose design is now analogical to the RadControls for Silverlight online demos, thus once again demonstrating the code re-usability between the two suites. WPF Online... -
Desktop WPF
How - to: Bind to IsExpandable Property of GridViewRow in RadGridView for WPF with Attached Behaviors.
Attached behaviors give you the opportunity to go far beyond the build-in functionality and to create one of your own. You are free to associate an action with an event or a property value. All you need is the assembly that comes with Expression Blend - System.Windows.Interactivity.dll. In our case here the goal will be to create a behavior that enables us to bind to the property of the RadGridView’s rows – IsExpandable. Normally you do not need to do nothing more but to set it to the value you want. However, if it is necessary to use it after... -
Productivity
Using Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation Part I: Automatic Styles
Last week Telerik released a service pack for OpenAccess Q1. The service pack fixes a few issues with Telerik’s new LINQ implementation working under Visual Studio 2010. In addition, the service pack shipped the Data Services Wizard; the Data Service Wizard is no longer a separate install. You can use the Data Service Wizard with traditional OpenAccess classes or the new LINQ implementation. Today I will show show you a new feature of the wizard: automatically creating a styled Silverlight application from your domain model. Future blog posts will show how to use RIA Services as well as SQL Azure. To get started open up Visual Studio 2010 and create... -
Productivity Reporting
An Overview of Connecting to Data and Using Expressions in Telerik Reporting Webinar
Earlier today, I presented a webinar about Connecting to Data and Using Expression in Telerik Reporting. Thanks to everyone who attended and I hope you all learned something new. If you were unable to attend, the webinar has been recorded and is now available on Telerik TV. I've posted the link below. An Overview of Connecting to Data and Using Expression in Telerik Reporting The latest release of Telerik Reporting features two completely new data source components, the SqlDataSource component and the ObjectDataSource component. These components make it easy to bind to Business Objects or ADO.NET supported databases. Once a ...June 03, 2010 1 min read -
Desktop WPF
Breadcrumb hierarchy navigation for RadGridView
For my first blog post I’m going to present a little pet project inspired by requests from some of our customers. And so, without further ado: The Breadcrumb is a simple control that analyzes the type of the collection found in the RadGridView’s ItemsSource property and automatically resolves data hierarchies. Usage is pretty straight-forward. Place the control anywhere you like and then connect it to the RadGridView, all in XAML. Example: <bread:Breadcrumb Grid.Row="0" Margin="5" SourceGridView="{Binding ElementName=radGrid}"/> The logic behind the type analysis algorithm is simple: represent every collection as a generic IEnumerable<> and get the type of the generic argument. So if you have an array of...May 31, 2010 2 min read -
Web
How To: Synchronize your UI selected items with your data context using MVVM and Blend behaviors for Silverlight and WPF
Very often you need “two-way” binding between some UI component with multiple selection and a data context property for selected items – let’s say RadGridView and the following model: XAML <telerik:RadGridView ItemsSource="{Binding Data}" SelectionMode="Extended" SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedItem, Mode=TwoWay}"> … C# public class MyDataContext : INotifyPropertyChanged { ... ObservableCollection<MyObject> _SelectedItems; public ObservableCollection<MyObject> SelectedItems { get ... -
Productivity
Mocking successive calls of similar type via sequential mocking
In this post , i show how you can benefit from sequential mocking feature[In JustMock] for setting up expectations with successive calls of same type. To start let’s first consider the following dummy database and entity class. public class Person { public virtual string Name { get; set; } public virtual int Age { get; set; } } public interface IDataBase { T Get<T>(); } Now, our test goal is to return different entity for successive calls on IDataBase.Get<T>(). By default, the behavior in JustMock is override , which is similar to other popular mocking tools. By override it means that the tool will consider always the latest user setup. Therefore, the first example will return the latest entity every-time and...May 31, 2010 2 min read -
People
Agile and OData at TechEd North America 2010
Looking forward to heading to New Orleans this weekend and doing an all day Agile pre-con on Sunday with Joel Semeniuk. There is still space to sign up, here is the info to look for: PRC07 | The Agile Methodology Demystified: Implementing Agile in Your Organization Track: Development Practices Wednesday afternoon I will also be presenting a breakout session on OData:. Below is the official write-up, however, I will be showing first how to build an OData service (first via Astoria or *.Data Services, and then with other methods such as SQL Azure, etc) and then how to consume the service via several different technologies including ASP.NET, Silverlight,...