If you are creating OData or WCF services in your application and have been using the Telerik Data Services Wizard, things just got a whole lot easier. As I have shown before, you can go from File|New to a new CRUD application in 30 seconds using the wizard. With the Q3 release last month, Telerik gives you more control over the wizard and its output. Some of the new features are: the ability to isolate your service in its own project, the ability to select which CRUD methods gets created for each entity, and Silverlight data validation. Let’s take a look.

When you run the wizard, on its first...

Since Q3 2010 we have introduced new drag mode, enabling native drag from and to your WPF applications. In this post I will show how to successfully perform drag drop operations from external program into your application through the RadDragAndDropManager API.

This can be achieved in several easy steps:

1. Set RadDragAndDropManager.EnableNativeDrag=”true”. This will enable native operations (if your application runs in full trust). The easiest way to do this is set it in StartUp event.

and add the corresponding...

If you are currently invested in LINQ to SQL and want to upgrade to Telerik OpenAccess ORM, with the new OpenAccess Q3 release you can do this quite easily. There is a new wizard included with OpenAccess that will automatically convert your LINQ to SQL classes to Telerik LINQ classes. Let’s take a look.

I’ll start with a simple project that has a simple LINQ to SQL model in it: Northwind.dbml. It is mapped to the Northwind database tables.

I created a simple web form that has a GridView on it. I decided that I would try to stump the wizard by writing a complex LINQ...

As we know, the RadSparklines are characterized by their small memory footprint, cleaner XAML and simple but powerful rendering. When looking at the sparkline controls in the context of a charting tool one has to note that they are much more simplified. They lack many of the visual elements, such as Axis lines, gridlines or striplines. This makes them much faster when rendered and very suitable when used in high data-intensity scenarios. One such scenario may be when using different types of sparklines bound to a ViewModel/class, which passes hundreds or even thousands of data points to the controls.

Since the RadSparklines...

• Download Telerik_Reporting_in_Azure (C# VS2010) - 412KB

Cloud computing is getting quite the hype these days, especially Windows Azure. To bring you up to speed, Windows Azure is a cloud services’ operating system which provides developers with on-demand computing and storage to host, scale, and manage .NET web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters.

In this post, we would demonstrate how to add a Telerik Report to a Windows Azure Project, publish it to Windows Azure and serve it from the Azure cloud.

Prerequisites:

What you should have installed prior starting:

• Windows Azure SDK 1.3 (November 2010)
• Telerik Reporting Q3 2010 or later.

Creating the project

We start by creating a Windows Azure project (make sure...

Back at the PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, Brian Goldfarb showed off the “Microsoft Silverlight Client for Facebook Beta”. It was released by Microsoft in early 2010 and had millions of downloads for both Windows and the Mac. Over the past few months, the Facebook app has been further developed by Telerik and is now available as the first official version under its new name: Telerik f!acedeck.

Telerik has taken over the application from Microsoft and will continue its further development and support as a free application for everyone to enjoy. Telerik f!acedeck delivers a superior experience to Facebook users and offers unique features: such as drag-and-drop from the...

At a special Firestarter event (part of which was and Telerik with the new Silverlight client for Facebook called "f!acedeck"), Microsoft unveiled what the next version of Silverlight will include. All I can say is that it will be a huge release - both in terms of easing the developer lives and for enabling even more rich user experiences (in-the-browser and especially out-of-browser). We can divide the new features that are coming in the runtime in two categories - 1) new media features and 2) features that are focused towards business application development.

New Media features

• Hardware Decode and presentation of H.264 improve performance for lower-power devices to render...

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It’s my f!acedeck.

What is f!acedeck? It’s a Silverlight-based, client application for Facebook. The product was formerly known as “Microsoft Client for Facebook Beta”, but is now available with the name Telerik f!acedeck and is being offered as a free tool by Telerik. If you have happened to be at the Silverlight Firestarter event, or have been watching it online, you should probably know all this. The news about Telerik taking over the application from Microsoft was announced by Scott Gu there.

Let me tell you some more on...

In my last announcement about the availability of the second drop of the Telerik Tools and controls for Windows Phone 7 I promised you that we will publish our quickstart application on the zune marketplace. I'm now glad to tell you that the application submission process ran without any problems and you can install the quickstart application directly on your windows phone 7 device. You can see a details about the application here. You can also download the application source code and run the application on the VS2010 Emulator.

We spend a lot of time designing the application just to make sure that it complies very well with the Metro design...

Back in Q2 we released a beta version of the OpenAccess Fluent Mapping API and since have been constantly working on improving the experience based on the feedback that we got from our early adopters. While the API is still in beta it is much more mature and already provides most of the functionality provided by the visual designer.

Today we will try and get familiar with some of the changes and improvements to the API that have taken place in the Q2 to Q3 timeframe.

First of all we decided that some of the existing API  members should be changed....