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Productivity
Visual Studio Tip: Creating and Consuming an Item Template
These days there are a lot of cool ways for .NET developers to be more productive. From code generation to refactoring, there is never a shortage of plug-ins out there to help us in this goal. But let's not forget about the great tools and features already built into Visual Studio that we can use. One feature I have started using recently is the item template. Whether you know what an item template is or not, you use them in your every day development. Item templates are those pre-written files you add to your project whenever you need a new ASP.NET...July 21, 2008 4 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Web Resources demystified: Part 3 (Troubleshooting)
In this post I will show you how to troubleshoot Web Resource related problems and how to deal with them. If you are using an ASP.NET server control with rich client-side behavior it is likely built to utilize web resources. Sometimes your page loads and that rich server side control does not work at all - the tree view does not expand, the grid cannot sort etc. Most of the times this is because the JavaScript files of those controls have failed to load. If your browser is configured to prompt on JavaScript errors you may see the following error messages: "RadTreeView... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
RadRotator binding to XML data
As you already know, the upcoming RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008 release will add a new control to the suite - the RadRotator. If you are familiar with the RadRotator control from the classic ASP.NET controls suite, you will be glad to know that it is now included in the new Ajax suite as well. One important change I would like to talk about is how the new rotator works with XML data. The classic rotator control had a property called ContentFile, which allowed the developer to specify a XML file to use as a datasource for the rotator frames.... -
Web
Maximum performance using Telerik RadGrid client-side data-binding with LINQ to SQL
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008 you can access the grid sort and filter expressions on the client. While filter expressions toString() method will create SQL syntax representing current grid filtering now you have toDynamicLinq() method which will create LINQ expression that can be used directly with Dynamic LINQ library. With few lines of code you will get minimum transfer between server and client (pure JSON): and on the server side LINQ to SQL will apply all requested operations directly on the data-base server: Live Demo |... -
Release
Telerik TV Launches Episode 3 - SimNet
Episode 3 - SimNet with Torger J. Wuellner Join Carl Franklin in the latest episode of Telerik TV as he hosts Torger J. Wuellner of Triad Interactive. In this episode Torger shows off SimNet, an e-learning platform which offers students the opportunity to learn Microsoft tools in a simulated Microsoft Office and Windows Vista environment. SimNet's portal site is built with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and is packed full of cool features. Watch as Torger demonstrates how he was able to use the built-in functionality of a RadWindow control to pass data to its parent page, or how he was...July 17, 2008 1 min read -
People Accessibility
Accessibility and RadEditor
The following blog post was written together with Rumen Jekov, who is the most experienced support officer at Telerik and has been supporting RadEditor for a number of years now. If you are a RadEditor user, and you contact us, chances are you will be receiving an answer from him. The blog post discusses the accessibility features of RadEditor. While accessibility options were not considered important couple of years ago, things have changed - and will be changing even more in the future. For enterprize customers and governmental institutions accessibility is becoming a top priority, and we have gone at great lengths... -
Desktop
Saving a few lines of code. Part II - Doing reflection
I was just about to write the second blog post of the series, this time involving currying, the forward pipe operator and other functional programming beauties when two people discouraged me from doing it. First Mike from the WinForms team kindly implied that with functional C# programming I can get some permanent brain damages and I definitely won't keep my audience concentrated. Then came Joe Zydeco's comment to my previous blog post and I gave up. I don't know why people don't like functional C# programming but point taken, no more functional C# in my blog posts (for those of you who like it,... -
Release
RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP2 release
RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP2 is fact. This is another public preview that gets us closer to the official release of our RadControls for Silverlight 2. However, there will be another Beta releases before the official launch of the controls. The next update will be available with the forthcoming Q2 release due end of July. With this CTP edition the RadControls for Silverlight 2 bundle has been enhanced with several brand new controls : Window for Silverlight - RadWindow exposes most of the best-known methods and properties of a WPF window, which have already become natural to manage and use. You have the... -
People Accessibility
Telerik RadGrid Section 508 Compliance
Ever wonder how to make a pageable & sortable grid Section 508 compliant? Well with RadGrid this is trivial task! The tricky part is to tell the grid to not render or require any JavaScript on the page: 1. Inherit from RadGrid and override three methods: public class MyGrid : RadGrid { public MyGrid() { // } protected override void RegisterScriptControl() { // do not register as ScriptControl } ... -
Web
Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons for Developers
I'm a Firefox user, have been for years. I love Microsoft products and most of their software is fantastic, but I have never been much fond of Internet Explorer. Maybe its IE's UI, or maybe its the fact that it doesn't have many great plug-ins. Either way, I much prefer to use Firefox as my browser of choice when developing web applications. There are tons of great add-ons available to Firefox users to make their web developing lives easier. Here are my favorite 5: Firebug - This one's got it all: JavaScript debugger, DOM inspector, traffic analyzer, CSS inspector, and much more....July 14, 2008 2 min read