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DevLink Technical Conference - August 13 - 15, 2009
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...April 01, 2009 1 min read -
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Upcoming Webinar on RadScheduler for WinForms
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...March 31, 2009 1 min read -
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RadControls for Silverlight 3 now available
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... -
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Creating a Half circle WPF RadGauge
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...March 26, 2009 2 min read -
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XML DataSource - General information
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... -
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Two New RadTips Episodes Featuring the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX
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... -
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WinForms RadGridView's new clothes
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...March 26, 2009 2 min read -
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Join me this weekend at Boise Code Camp & Tech Fest
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...March 25, 2009 2 min read -
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JavaScript - Variables and Types Basics
This article is taken from JavaScript @ Wikibooks. JavaScript is a loosely typed language, this means that you don’t have to worry about setting the type of variable and you can change at will in runtime. But when you code, you have to make sure that you are getting the right type at the right time. Variable declaration Variables are commonly explicitly declared the var statement, as shown below: var c; .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } The above variable is created, but has the default value of undefined. To be of value, the variable needs to be initialized: var c = 0; Variables can also be created by assigning directly to them,... -
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Create Your Own T4 Item Template with “RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX VS Extensions” - Part 1
When you add a new page to your Web site, do you often find yourself cutting and pasting from another page to get started? If you're spending more time importing controls and setting up content regions for your master page than actually working on the new page, you might want to look into creating a "RadControls T4 Item Template" in Visual Studio with “RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX VS Extensions” Below is a basic way to get started with a “RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX” T4 Item Templates. To create your own RadControls T4 Item Template: Create a file – (MyTemplate.t4). 2. Create a file...March 23, 2009 2 min read