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How to map references and collections – Part 2
In the first post we have described the ways to map a foreign key reference in the database to a reference, a collection or both in memory. This post continues the topic with the ways to map a join table. A join table is necessary if an m:n relationship has to be stored, but it also can contain the ordering inside a collection or the content of a dictionary. Let’s start with a simple join table in the database schema. Typically a join table contains two foreign key references, one to the left and one to the right table. 1) The natural way...November 24, 2009 4 min read -
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Telerik at PDC 09
PDC was a true success for Telerik. Armed with over 300 .NET Ninja Stress balls and 1,000 t-shirts including our already popular Geekette and .NET Ninja designs as well as the new JustCode t-shirts we unveiled on Tuesday night, we left Los Angeles empty handed, thankfully. None of us wanted to lug anything back:) Our launch of the new product JustCode – a new solution-wide productivity add-in for VS - was a hit. We had a tremendous turn out for the unveiling announced by Stephen Forte and Todd Anglin while Atanas Korchev presented the demo. Following the announcement, we had... -
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Telerik Reporting offers industry’s first built-in Silverlight Viewer
The Q3 2009 release is now in the past, but the newly introduced features are here to stay. Although the newly introduced JustCode productivity tool stirred quite a bit of excitement at PDC and in our forums, it cannot yet shade the native Silverlight support for reports created with Telerik Reporting. Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer Although there are several Silverlight viewer implementations out there, most notably for SQL Reporting Services, there is no reporting product that offers true native support for Silverlight. The Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer is designed to render Telerik Reports within Silverlight projects (see demos). The Silverlight viewer uses the same rendering... -
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Keeping a Product Launch Secret
digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,6dc8d165-8853-45d1-8ff2-99306775262b.aspx";digg_title = "Keeping a Product Launch Secret";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Last week at PDC, Telerik launched a new product named JustCode. It was a stunning success since we had a lot of people show up for the launch and we gave away 1,000 free licenses at the event. Back in March at a planning meeting at Telerik HQ, we decided that we would embark on an Apple style “secret” strategy and go for the most buzz at launch. Back at that meeting in March we decided that secrecy, which goes against a lot of our values at Telerik, would be required for the most buzz at the launch. But keeping a secret is not easy in the world of Twitter,... -
Productivity Testing
Testing Could Be Elegant
Mr. David Burns recently raised a pretty good question – is testing elegant? He lists a couple of examples how testing is far from elegant. The simple scenario he mentioned in relation to test automation brought my full attention – imagine a change in an element being used in many tests (could be a simple ID change, or any attribute modification for example). In such a case you may end up with a lot of failing tests and well, you should be extra careful even if any “global replace” is an option with your framework/tool. In this post I’d like ...November 20, 2009 3 min read -
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Telerik Reporting internal build available for download (v3.1.9.1113)
Last week we released a new internal build for Telerik Reporting which addresses several important issues, including the "The expression contains object 'Item' that is not defined in the current context." error when binding to an list/array of objects. Check the Release Notes and get the latest internal build from the Latest Internal Builds area (log in required).... -
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New Internal Build for RadControls for WinForms Available for Download (v2009.3.9.1111)
In case you missed it, there is a new internal build available for download for RadControls for WinForms. Among the several fixes that this build comes with, you will find a fixed issue in RadScheduler with the all day header area when the scheduler is in Week view. Another important fix is in RadTabStrip, where under certain conditions the children of the TabItem.ContentPanel became hidden. Check the Release Notes and get the latest internal build from the Latest Internal Builds area (log in required).WebCustom Filtering with RadGridView for Silverlight
As you may already know, RadGridView received a "filtering" boost with our latest release. As a developer, you are no longer stuck with the default filtering user interface. With the introduction of the Custom Filtering Controls feature, you can easily craft the filtering control of your dreams. In this blog post I will try to explain what are the steps needed to achieve this by creating a fully-functional custom control. Although the control is tailored to a specific scenario, it can be used as a reference implementation for developing any kind of custom control. Finally, I would strongly suggest having the source...November 20, 2009 9 min readWeb ASP.NET AJAXNew ASP.NET AJAX sample app: Sales Dashboard
Following the great success of the Silverlight/WPF Sales Dashboard -- a similar demo is now available for ASP.NET AJAX. See what we have built for less than a week with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight RadChart, RadGauge and OpenAccess ORM! Enjoy and make sure you check the source code for some helpful best practices! ...WebFirst Look at RadBook for Silverlight
I am glad to announce the addition of one more control to our Silverlight suite. The control is called RadBook and it is a page-flip type of control that allows browsing through a set of items as if flipping the pages of a book. RadBook inherits System.Windows.Controls.ItemsControl, which allows you to turn any type of content into a RadBook's page. The main features of RadBook are: Ability to template every page by using LeftPageTemplate, RightPageTemplate, LeftPageTemplateSelector and RightPageTemplateSelector. Ability to change the way a page is flipped i.e. flip a page on a single click, double click or simply forbid page flipping. Ability to define...