Here's a short list of what we've managed to achieve during the last 2+ months since we released JustCode in November:

• We’ve fixed a lot of C# / VB.NET and JavaScript "Good Code Red" issues. "Good Code Red" issues occur when errors are reported by JustCode for code that actually compiles fine. We treat these types of issues with a very high priority as it's very annoying when errors and warnings are reported throughout the solution for code that works perfectly fine. If you still experience such problems, please report them to us and we'll fix them for the RC. You...

Have you ever thought of embedding a YouTube video in the context of a data-bound control? Recently, a client of ours asked for such a demo and this inspired me to create a code-library project that features this scenario and uses RadListView for ASP.NET AJAX as ‘videos host’. Depending on your goal, you can control the player via JavaScript code or you can just embed a static object. In the latter case you will need something like this:

   1: <object width="425" height="344">

   2: <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QT0e5XqNZdo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param>

  ...

The Visual Style Builder for ASP.NET is now compatible with the shiny MVC extensions.

The generated CSS code got a bit smaller, too.

In order to celebrate this, I give you the lovely PinkPanther skin, for your visual pleasure.

A word regarding “primitive-based skinning”

Due to the different styling model in the MVC extensions, all changes made to a control are being propagated to all other controls. While this is somewhat limiting, it enforces the skin consistency, and the file size is significantly smaller.

Happy coloring,
Alex...

When the data layer does not allow to perform calculations we often need to harness the UI.

Here is a a simple case  - in our business object we have the Price and the Count properties. We will have RadGridView to calculate the Total  for us in a calculated column.

If you peek into the sample project you will notice we are using a pretty standard Silverlight approach :

We bind the value of the calculated column with a Binding Converter :

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn 
 Header="Total" 
 Background="Bisque" 
 DataMemberBinding="{Binding Converter={StaticResource CalculatingConverter}}" 
 TextAlignment="Right" />

The calculation “logic” is in the Convert method of CalculatingConverter.cs

 public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
  ...

A common scenario when entering data is a cascade of comboboxes, where the list in the next combo is populated after selecting a value in the previous.

A typical example is selecting a country from a combo then selecting from a filtered list of cities in a second combo.

We have had tons of questions on how this can be done within a row in RadGridVIew so I decided to make a small demo. I have used a nice List of countries by continent.

There are lots of ways to achieve this with RadGirdView. Bellow I have tried to demonstrate...

Shortly after the Q3 2009 release we developed the Sales Dashboard Application for Windows Forms - a composite business application for visualizing a company’s sales force performance. It is built with the Q3 2009 versions of Telerik’s WinForms components, RadChart for WPF, Telerik OpenAccess ORM, and implements the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for WinForms, which helps in the development of smart-client line-of-business (LOB) applications.

Since the interest in this application is still high, we felt the need to have a dedicated place to discuss this application. In case you have not played with it yet, download the source code, and enjoy!

Also check:
Silverlight/WPF Sales...

Do you know Excel? Answer a few quick questions at the Excelerators Quiz site, and find out how you rate. Let me know your results and you could even win a brand new HD monitor from Microsoft! The prize you can win will include a Dell ST2310 23 inch flat panel monitor, keyboard, and mouse. (Over $250 value.)

Here is how you can win the goods:

Go take the quiz and report here your results in the comments, or ping me on Facebook. Take the quiz between today and February 4th. I will decide the winner and send the results to Microsoft. (Tiebreaker will be a PowerPivot challenge I will...

I’ll be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit from April 20-23 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. This will be my second time to the GIDS and it will be hard to top last year’s adventure of Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight, but I will try.

I will be speaking on .NET day on:

• Business Intelligence Design Patterns: BI Made Easy!
• Sharing Code between .NET and Silverlight (This is mostly on SL 3.0, but will I show how you can do it with SL 4.0 too, which is *much* easier!)

On web day I will be speaking about:

• Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0

Sessions are only...

Last week we published the Telerik Reporting roadmap. Our plans for Q1 2010 (and for 2010 in general) are to give the developer a reporting tool with greater calculating power that will allow for full control over the data management and presentation.

Review the Telerik Reporting Roadmap.

The other product roadmaps are also publicly available:

We are running a Reporting case-study contest with cool prizes! Share how Telerik Reporting has helped you in the work you do, what problems/impediments it solved for you, and how Telerik made a difference, and you could win a $500 Amazon gift certificate! For extra exposure of your work, all case studies will be published on our site, and the winner will get the opportunity to publish a video case study of their project on TelerikTV.

All you need to do to enter is send a case study on a working Telerik Reporting project that you have developed. The three most interesting case studies...