Just a month after releasing the quite popular Telerik TFS Tools (built by Imaginet Resources with RadControls for WPF), a fresh new update of the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard is waiting for you to be downloaded! Beta 2 of the TFS tools ships numerous enhancements and optimizations, as well as new functionality: Iteration Planning Tool. This planning interface lets you take work items directly from the product backlog and schedule them into future iterations. What’s more, the Iteration Planner also takes into account the capacity limitations of these iterations. Choose work items from your Product Backlog, add...

Continuing with the LINQ tips, today we provide a list of System.Math methods that we are going to support with the upcoming Q3 release.
The following table shows the supported methods; when no indication is given, all the overloaded (double,decimal,...) versions will work.

Abs

Min

Max

Acos, Asin, Atan, Atan2

Cos,Sin,Tan

Cosh, Sinh, Tanh

Sqrt

Power

Trunc

Exp

Log(double)

Log10

Ceil

Floor

Round (*)

Sign

 

(*) Only the Round(double) and Round(x,y) methods where y!=MidpointRounding are supported.

 

That means, you can push now many more calculations to the database server.
Be aware however, that using the database server engine might produce different results than would be calculated when the CLR is used; e.g....

Our second Beta release is now available for download and it once again includes brand new controls as well as major new additions.

RadGridView now features Vertical and Horizontal UI Virtualization with container recycling added for rows and cells. Thus, the performance and the responsiveness of the control has become 5x faster. The control also provides an extended Validation support by adding metadata driven validation (via data annotations attributes) and validation events that allow support for custom validation.

 

 

RadChart now provides full Negative Values support for all relevant two-dimensional series types. The controls also provides support for
Multiple Y axes.

 

 

RadChart adds a highly requested support for secondary...

Q3 2009 is knocking on the door and we wanted to give you the chance to test some of the new features and improvements in RadControls for WinForms. The main focus for the Q3 2009 release continues to be on optimizations in the overall performance and stability of the toolset, brisk and slicker theming, and improvements throughout the major controls.

So, it is our pleasure to announce the availability of Q3 BETA for RadControls for WinForms. Full information on the beta you will find in our Beta Lab and in the Release Notes. The downloads are now available in your account (or free trials):



Please, use the...

Hey everyone, start your morning off right by heading to your client account and downloading the new beta releases for RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight. Or you can start at Telerik Labs and work your way from there. :)

In our RadControls for WPF suite, you now have access to exciting new controls like RadRibbonBar and first looks at the WPF versions of RadMenu and RadContextMenu.  Check out the browser based demo, or better yet download the beta bits and see it for yourself. 

With RadControls for Silverlight, you get updates to RadTileView, RadOutlookBar, RadRibbonBar, and more- all based on community feedback...

In today’s post we are going to discuss a topic which is known to be fairly complex in most cases but it is relevantly easy to be achieved with Telerik OpenAccess ORM.

Let us consider the following scenario: your company decides to move your data access from one database server to another.  So you have your database in a MSSQL Server instance  and want to migrate to MySql. The schema is the same on both servers but the data residesinside  the MSSQL Server instance. What follows is the easiest way to move all the data from the MSSQL server database to...

Recent question that poped up from an user was how to create a table, where the table grows horizontally instead of vertically. This is easy as one, two, three when using our Table report item.

I start off using the crosstab item as initial template for this task. As the table would be growing "in columns" instead of "in rows", we do not need a row group so we delete it. Then bind the crosstab to a sample business object making sure we've added as many static rows as we need. Next step in order to show all the data, we need to make sure that...

I’ve made small example on how to load on demand RadGridView hierarchy child data using MVVM and RIA service: 

  

Using partial classes you can extend very easily generated code with desired load on demand logic:

    public partial class Customer
    {
        bool ordersLoaded = false;
        public IEnumerable<Order> CustomerOrders
        {
            get
            {
 ...

The Q3 2009 release comes packed with goodies and we hope you'll enjoy the new additions to your toolbox. And it's fast too.

For starters, a number of micro-optimizations on the client-side has resulted in less boilerplate code. But the big breakthrough comes on the server-side where you can expect improvements of up to 30%, depending on your scenario.

So, how did we manage to do it? By deleting code, of course. Well, not just any code, but a reflection-intensive piece that was seeing a lot of use.

Just don't spend too much time Reflecting.

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The code in question is crucial...

I am happy to announce a few new features coming in Q3 2009, related to text formatting. As you know, a couple of releases ago we added a feature called Html-like text formatting to our controls:

 

 

Although we supported a very limited and basic set of HTML tags, our clients were happy with having the option to format text via HTML. We received a great deal of feedback on this feature, including many requests to support more HTML tags. Q3 2009 (the beta is coming out this week), comes with support for new tags in our parsing and rendering engine. The...