The third, and final, episode of the ASP.NET AJAX webinar series took place yesterday. Much like with the first to webinars I wanted to make sure that I followed the webinar with a blog post containing all of the questions asked during the presentation, as well as a link to all of the recorded webinars. You can find a list of the questions asked below, and as always if your exact question is not found here then it’s due to a duplicate (or very similar) question.

Q&A

• Can the RadAjaxManager support partial post back that appends new controls to the page?
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• Download Telerik_Reporting_in_Azure (C# VS2010) - 1.69 MB

As we bragged in the SP1 of Telerik Reporting Q1 2011 Available post, besides the improved performance and optimized server resources, the XAML rendering extension can now be used in Windows Azure. That is why we decided to update our cloud demo to show the reports in the Silverlight report viewer as well (which utilizes the XAML rendering). You can learn how to use the Silverlight report viewer from the Getting Started with the Silverlight Report Viewer for Telerik Reporting video.

The updated demo site can be seen at http://telerikreporting.cloudapp.net/. The good news is there is nothing specific that has...

Following the first webinar in our Windows Phone Wednesdays webinar series, I’m happy to say that the recording is online and ready to view on-demand!  You can check it out on Telerik TV here:

http://tv.telerik.com/watch/windows-phone/windows-phone-7-azure-webinar

Also to note for those who are in attendance, I re-recorded the portion where the Windows Phone 7 emulator was having display issues so that you can really take in the whole experience of adding data to your application and enhancing the app by using the RadJumpList control.  Sorry for the trouble, the display issues when presenting a webinar are hit or miss, last series for me...

Hey everyone!  I'm happy to announce that Telerik is going to be hosting a 100% free, 100% awesome webinar series on some hot Windows Phone 7 development topics.  We've got Telerik Developer Evangelists, Microsoft MVPs, and up-and-coming community influencers (one of which happens to be from the Telerik Insiders), all presenting webinars for you to get up to speed with the platform and the latest and greatest programming techniques out there, all from the comfort of your desk.

Starting Wednesday, May 18th at 11am, tune in every Wednesday for four wees to take in these great presentations.  Happen to attend?  You...

In Part 1 of this series we covered how you can create an MVC (both MVC 2 and MVC 3) web application that is ready to be published to the cloud. Of course we also went through how you can make this application a Telerik application, taking use of our Visual Studio Extensions. What the application actually does is up to you of course, but now that you’ve finished developing everything you want to take it to the next level; you want to deploy!

Launching to the cloud

So your project is ready to rock and you’re eager to brag to everyone that...

As some of you are (hopefully) aware of, our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX work flawlessly on Windows Azure. We actually have a short blog series available here on our blogs that go through the necessary steps for creating an application (Part 1) and later deploying it (Part 2) to Windows Azure. However, do our ASP.NET MVC components work on this platform? The answer is: yes! (Note the usage of ‘!’, that’s how exciting it is!). The best thing is that the process is no more complicated than what you have to do for our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.

Note

Since most of...

As with every release, the Q1 2011 focus for Telerik Reporting has been on both -- the end-user and the developer.

Analyze, Update, Present & Share Data

Supporting the Office Open XML standard, developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, presentations and word processing documents, was a natural evolution for Telerik Reporting. This notable end-user feature means that starting from Q1 2011 Telerik Reporting will be able to export its reports to 2007/2010 Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Word, and Excel documents.

Native support for the Office Open XML standard means a couple of important things:

• Firstly, we are not simply exporting an image of the report,...

• Download SqlAzure.EntityFramework (C# VS2010) - 160KB

In the previous blog post from the series we discussed how to connect Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database using Open Access ORM with the OpenAccessDataSource component. Now it is time to demonstrate how to perform this with another very popular ORM – Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource component.
For the sake of this example we assume an existing SQL Azure account with the Adventure Works sample database already installed. Let’s start with a new ADO.NET Entity Data Model. To connect to the SQL Azure database specify the server name and the login credentials of your SQL Azure account, then choose the AdventureWorksLTAZ2008R2 sample database as shown below:



To create the entity model,...

• 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...

I recently showed you how to get started working with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX on Azure. It’s really a lot easier than you might think. If you missed the first two posts (and the follow-up videos), here they are for quick reference:

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX on Azure

Deploying RadControls to Azure

Azure Videos on Telerik TV

Today, I updated the live running Telerik demo on Azure to feature the complete Telerik Web Mail demo! That means you can now see almost all of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX running live on the Azure Cloud. Included in the demo are RadGrid, RadEditor, RadSplitter, RadMenu, RadAjax,...