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Free Webinar on Telerik Reporting and Regular Thursday Webinar Sessions at 11
We are happy to invite you to a free webinar, presented by one of our evangelists, Kevin Babcock. The webinar Telerik Reporting 101 will discuss what a Reporting solution is, why you should adopt a reporting solution for your organization, and how Telerik Reporting is the perfect fit for delivering the business critical reports you need. After this short introduction, Kevin will show you the basics of Telerik Reporting and take you for a tour of the unique report designer. Then he’ll show you how to create your first report, how to make more complex reports, and how to display your... -
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Exporting data to Excel using the RadGridView for WinForms
There usually comes a time for most developers when they need to use the data being displayed in an application, outside of that application. There are obviously a number of ways you can present data, but it is common to leverage Microsoft Excel. It provides a similar look and feel to the grid which means minimal reformatting, plus Excel is widely used and therefore most offices should have a version of the software available. How to get your data into Excel? The RadGridView offers a couple of options to accomplish this task. First, you can use the Primary... -
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HTTP Compression for your Silverlight ADO.NET DataServices
I’m happy to announce that with Q1 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Telerik.Web.UI) you will be able to compress the response from ADO.NET DataServices (formerly "Project Astoria") in Silverlight web applications with simple web.config registration: web.config … <httpModules> <addname="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" /> </httpModules> … Here is the result for Northwind Customers with ATOM and JSON response type: ATOM : Bytes Received: 11,623 (uncompressed 92,848) JSON : Bytes Received: 9,237 (uncompressed 39,460) I’ve made small Silverlight application to illustrate the new... -
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Adding a RadToolTip to a Custom Toolbar Item in the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
Most of the time combining two RadControls together is wonderfully easy. We at Telerik know this; we work hard to have them work together in a way that is both simple and intuitive for developers. But every so often someone asks about hooking up two controls in such a manner that I have to sit back and scratch my head for a few minutes. Thankfully though, the RadControls are flexible enough that I usually can find an answer. Tonight that happened when a customer asked how to add a RadToolTip to a custom toolbar item in the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX.... -
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Meet the RadRotator’s Cousin, the RadTicker for ASP.NET AJAX
I recently posted an in-depth look at the RadRotator for ASP.NET AJAX. I feel it appropriate to follow-up that post with a discussion about another oft-overlooked control in Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX suite, the RadTicker. The RadTicker is closely related to the RadRotator for ASP.NET AJAX, but boasts its own unique functionality. Whereas the RadRotator is best suited for richer content, such as images and HTML markup, the RadTicker is designed specifically to display text. The RadTicker uses client script to display a single character of text in a given interval, simulating a “typewriter” effect. While it has many of the same... -
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Custom template columns with RadGridView for Silverlight
Using GridViewCell template you can create your own template columns in less than a minute: <telerik:RadGridView Name="RadGridView1" IsFilteringAllowed="False" IsReadOnly="True" ShowGroupPanel="False" AutoGenerateColumns="False"> <telerik:RadGridView.Columns> <telerikGridView:GridViewDataColumn HeaderText="ID" UniqueName="ID" /> <telerikGridView:GridViewDataColumn Width="400" HeaderText="Name" UniqueName="Name"> <telerikGridView:GridViewDataColumn.CellStyle> <Style TargetType="telerikGridView:GridViewCell"> <Setter Property="Template"> ... -
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Saving a few lines of code. Part IV - Refactoring switch statements
Before going into details about how you could refactor a switch statement first I should say that there's nothing wrong with this statement (as with any other C#, VB.NET or whatever statement). Most probably you would want to refactor a switch in one of these scenarios: It has reached a certain amount of lines of code so that you need to scroll in order to see all the cases. When you want to introduce some new functionality you inevitably end up adding new cases to the switch statement. When you implicitly check for a type in a switch statement. In most... -
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New "Your Links" menu on telerik.com
As telerik.com grows bigger, you may start finding it time-consuming to navigate to the deeper pages in the site hierarchy. The increasing number of clicks is getting irritating, especially for regular visitors of the site. We tried to tackle this problem by introducing a supplemental navigation tool (you need to be logged in to see it). The "Your Links" menu is straight-forward to use: bookmark, rearrange and delete your favorite telerik.com pages. 1. Go to the page you want to bookmark and expand the menu. 2. Bookmark the currently opened page by pressing the "Add Current Page" button. 3. Type in the name of... -
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Simulating a layout transform for text in Silverlight 2.0
The Telerik charting team is hard at work on making our WPF chart compatible with Silverlight. In the process we are faced with numerous limitations of SL. One of the more cunning problems I’ve faced was the fact that there are still no layout transforms available which leads to some wacky problems when you try to rotate text. Let’s assume a very simple layout consisting of a single grid with two columns, one with width=”auto” and the other with width=”*”. The first column contains a string of text. Here is how it looks before any transforms are applied: <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="SkyBlue"> ... -
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Paying Homage to the RadRotator for ASP.NET
The RadRotator is a control that is easily overlooked in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite. It is not one of the more compelling controls like the RadGrid or the RadEditor, but it certainly provides a key set of functionality that is important in order for Telerik to claim that our suite is the most complete ASP.NET AJAX suite on the market. I’d like to take some time to show you what we have done to make the RadRotator a control that makes it easy for you, dear developer, to add rich functionality to your web applications. Overview The RadRotator for ASP.NET AJAX is...