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Web ASP.NET AJAX
ASP.NET binding with OpenAccessDataSource
In the last post we saw how easy it is to reverse engineer a database schema. Let's now use the resulting persistent classes library to build the first website. Let's do it again step by step: Step 1: Use the resulting solution from the northwind reverse engineering post. Step 2: Add a new web application by execution File->Add->New Web Site... from the Visual Studio Menu. Choose ASP.NET Web Site. Step 3: Add a reference from the website to the class library. Select the website project in the Solution Explorer and execute Website->Add reference from the Visual Studio Menu. Select the class library project in the Projects tab. All... -
Productivity
Reverse engineering step by step
Hi everybody, My name is Jan Blessenohl and I am working on the new Telerik object relational mapper named OpenAccess ORM. In the next posts I would like to guide you through the first steps with OpenAccess. This post is about reverse engineering. The following posts will use this feature to build running applications. - OpenAccess comes with 2 possible ways to generate the persistent model: Forwad Mapping: Write the persistent classes first and let then OpenAccess generate the database schema. Reverse Engineering: Design the database schema first, let OpenAccess read it and then create all the classes for you. This step by step... -
Desktop WPF
Animation with RadChart for WPF.
Hi everyone, My name is Velin Angelov. I am a member of Telerik's Charting team and here I am going to write about a feature of the RadChart for WPF which you might find useful while having fun with it. RadChart for WPF was shipped with the 2008.Q3 release and one feature all of the charts have in common is being animated. From this point on there are three options: You are absolutely happy (as you probably will) with the default animation settings provided by RadChart. In this case you simply keep on coding. You totally disagree with the way RadChart is animated and...November 13, 2008 3 min read -
People
Look Ma, I’m on TV!
Seems I’ve gotten my 15 minutes of fame after all (more like 5). During PDC’08 Todd and I had the chance to meet with Adam Kinney from Microsoft and talk about one of the coolest new telerik products – the WPF Charts and Gauges. The video is now up on Channel 9 and can be accessed here. In the mean while we pulled off our first release and the charts and gauges are now a part of the WPF controls suite. You can see them in all their splendor here. If you are excited about the charts as we are – share... -
Web
Can your grid control do this?
In “First Look at Silverlight 2” Scott Gu showed how easy is to change the visual appearance of a Silverlight application using the standard features of the Silverlight Grid control: While reading the blog, it occurred to me that it would be very easy to achieve similar effects with RadGridView for WinForms. With the latest version of RadGridView you can change the row layout using different view definitions in a very simplistic and easy way: Using parts and ideas from Scott’s article, I compiled a small application that gets a list of article from digg.com via web services and shows them in RadGridView... -
Release
New Reporting rendering engine - a foundation for what it is to come next year
Hi guys! We suppose that you have already downloaded our Q3 version (released last week) and you're enjoying the new rendering engine. For those of you who missed what's new, I'll list it here once again: Official release of the Project Upgrade Wizard - no more upgrade hassles. Our Upgrade Wizard would take care of that for you. New Report Rendering Engine, offering: Excellent rendering performance The new rendering engine optimizes the usage of system resources (memory consumption and processor loads) during data processing and ... -
Web
REST Service Calls with grid client binding
Inspired by Nikhil's blog post about C# 4.0 - Dynamic REST Service Calls I've made small demo how to bind the grid to Flickr REST API and here is the result: You can configure the service to return JSON and deserialize the result: and since we don't need all the data you can use LINQ to turn the result into more understandable objects: Enjoy! [Live | Download]... -
Web
Automatic insert, update and delete with UserControl edit form for the grid
I'm happy to announce that we've implemented support for IBindableControl for the grid and now you can edit, update and insert with minimal coding if your user control implements this interface: Also using the power of LINQ you can fill the dictionary in a single line of code. Enjoy! [Live | Download]... -
Release
RadControls for WPF official release
With the Q3 edition of RadControls for WPF Telerik has officially included in the suite three major controls - RadScheduler, RadChart and RadGauge. Thus, Telerik puts the accent on rich data visualization and interactivity by introducing powerful and completely stylable and customizable controls. RadControls for WPF features a new theming mechanism for the Slider, ProgressBar, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Calendar and DatePicker controls to make them consistent with the rest of the controls in the suite. Also , a new skin (Vista) has been added to further enrich the UI capabilities of the controls and let you create consistent LOB applications. Not only we introduced new... -
Desktop WinForms
Enhancing Your WinForms UI with HTML-like Formatting
Until recently our Windows Forms offering didn’t have support for HTML-like rich text formatting, so typical for web applications. With the Q3 release shipped on November 5 this has changed. This release of RadControls for WinForms has the HTML-like formatting capabilities on a framework level. What does it mean? Well, as of now every VisualElement descendent is capable of rich text formatting - Labels, Buttons, RadCalendar, RadGridView, etc. The implementation is very simple, especially if your users are familiar with HTML. To turn on the rich formatting behavior you must begin your text with an <html> tag; use <size=[+|-]value> to set...