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  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part IV: Making an OData feed from your Domain Service

    Read the other posts in this series: Part I Part II Part III In the previous blog posts listed above, I showed how Telerik’s new LINQ implementation works with WCF RIA Services. I showed how to build your own Domain Service, build custom query methods, and make a metadata class. In this post I will show how to expose your Domain Service as an OData feed. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data in a RESTful fashion. You create OData feeds when you want to set up feeds for 3rd parties to consume, typically without your knowledge. For example...
    June 24, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX SEO Paging with Routing in ASP.NET 4.0

    URL Routing with ASP.NET 4.0 has never been easier. While it was first a luxury of ASP.NET MVC, WebForms applications got routing support with .NET 3.5 SP1. With version 4.0 of the framework, setting up URL routing is now a piece of cake. For those of you who have never heard of it: URL Routing enables your application to use URLs that do not directly map to physical files, but can instead represent a user-friendlier, more descriptive, logical structure. It is not URL rewriting and not URL mapping, where these effectively restore the original physical URL of the page down the request pipe. With version 2010.Q2 of Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX,...
    June 23, 2010
  • People

    Answer one-question survey on VS extensions and you could win an iPad

    Hey Telerik developers. We are running a super-short survey on how you add RadControls to your Visual Studio projects. It’s only one question (well, two questions – but the email question is just going to be used to 1 – verify you are a customer or a trial user and 2 – to notify the winner.) One lucky winner I will select at random will win a 32G iPad worth $599.   Please head over to this survey ; your response will really help us out.   The survey closes July 15, 2010. I will notify the winner on  July...
    June 23, 2010
  • Release

    Meet the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2010 BETA release

    The time has come to have a peek on the new controls and features we are shaping for you that will be published with the Q2 2010 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX release. Alongside with the regular updates and bug fixes for the components in the suite, you will get the following: - One brand new control: RadTagCloud - Div content area mode and light table dialog for RadEditor - Load-on-demand mode for GridDropDownColumn combobox editor, column group/reorder animations and localization through resources for RadGrid - ASP.NET 4 Routing support for RadDataPager and RadGrid’s pager - RadFilter integration with ASP.NET 3.5 data source...
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Hands on mocking of ASPNETMVC controller action

    In this post, I will start with an MVC sample created from the default template project that is bundled with ASPNET MVC2 installation. This template provides not just a dummy project with folder organized but rather a full running app.
    June 23, 2010
  • People

    Telerik at CodeStock 2010

    This Friday, June 25th, marks the start of CodeStock 2010: The Year We Connect. According to the CodeStock website, the theme for this year is about establishing connections. I am happy to announce that Telerik is a proud sponsor of CodeStock, and a few of us will be in attendance at the event. If you would like to establish a connection with us, please feel free to stop by our booth or attend one of our sessions. I will be presenting two sessions at CodeStock, the first of which is called "Creating an Extensible Photo Application with MEF." In ...
    June 22, 2010
  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part III: Adding a Metadata Class

    Read the other posts in this series: Part I Part II In the previous blog posts listed above, I showed how Telerik’s new LINQ implementation works with WCF RIA Services. I showed how to build your own Domain Service as well as build custom query methods. In this post I will show how to build a metadata class. (Note: future versions of the OpenAccess LINQ Implementation will produce the metadata class for you automatically.) The WCF RIA Services metadata class is a separate class from the DomainService that contains information about the entities. In this class you can write custom validation logic, set attributes of the...
    June 21, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Column Animations for RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    Coming with 2010.Q2 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX is some eye candy for RadGrid users. In fact, never has an HTML grid been more interactive. RadGrid column animations will have your column headers fly around when you reorder columns or drag them over to the group panel. To get an idea of what column animations really are, try reordering some columns in Windows Explorer on Windows 7: What you get is a nice animation where headers move aside to make room for the dragged header. The idea is the same with RadGrid too. You drag one header to reorder the columns and the rest of the headers move...
    June 18, 2010
  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part II: Query Methods

    In my last blog post, I showed how Telerik’s new LINQ implementation works with WCF RIA Services. In that post I built a Domain Model from the Northwind database as well as a RIA Services Domain Service. I then showed the drag and drop features of RIA Services and created a simple Silverlight application with no code. Today we are going to take that example one step further by creating some custom server side Query Methods. A query method is just a facility to query a data source. In RIA Services, you define a query method explicitly so it can be used on the client. This is pretty straight forward...
    June 18, 2010
  • Release

    What’s new in the Beta of RadRichTextBox for Silverlight

    We are very excited with the announcement of our Q2 Beta release of RadControls for Silverlight 4.One of the most important new announcements is the new version of RadRichTextBox. The control went a long way since its CTP version and now we are eager to show you some of the new features we worked hard on during the last couple of months. New Document Formats First of all we will present the newly added import/export support for Html and Docx formats, which was among the most demanded features, because its heavy use for many business-oriented scenarios. Take a look at the screenshots below to...