Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) is one of the top developer events in India. This year it attracted over 2500 developers over 4 days of the event (April 17 – 20^th). The conference has been hosted for over 5 years and continues to draw top notch companies as participants including Nokia, Microsoft, Google, RedHat, BlackBerry, VMWare, IBM, ThoughtWorks.

At Telerik, the thing that makes us deliver more than expected, is our passion in technology. Telerik participated at the event with an objective of sharing our passion with the Indian Developers. This indepth engagement was not only limited to hosting a booth but extended...

I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awesome in the extensions.

VS Extensions

Telerik’s MVC extensions come with built in Visual Studio extensions to make project creation, and configuration, a snap.  In addition, the extensions include a variety of project templates to help start new projects: 

 

What Makes it Awesome

Instead of forcing me to manually check for updates, the extension proactively alert me to any available updates:

When opening a project using an older...

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the way to handle data on the client these days. It really is the cat’s pajamas. Almost all the client-side widgets or libraries that you’ll be working with will most likely be utilizing JSON, and sending large chunks of data over the wire as JSON as opposed to other bulky forms of data can lead to some dramatic performance increase across any application. I often come across individuals not sure of what JSON is, or how they can use it today, and I wanted to address this issue in a blog post. Of course I...

As many of you already know, we are offering you a chance to choose which features of OpenAccess ORM you would like to see implemented in the next releases. You can post your votes and comments in our PITS system, plus you can ask us to put new features there through the support system or forums.

Recently there is one clear winner in PITS – the database default values support. It has been requested many times through our support system as well – and we would like to thank all of you for the feedback, we do appreciate it. We are glad...

It’s Thursday and time for the latest installment of XAMLFlix. As a quick review, XAMLflix = Videos + Projects covering all of the controls in both the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF control suites.

We are revamping the entire video library with fresh new content based on the latest versions of our controls, complete with projects so you can grab the same code you see in the video and run with it.

Be sure to check out www.telerik.com/xamlflix for all the videos!

Discovering RadDocking

RadDocking gives you very powerful control over the positioning and display of data, and maximize the utility of...

In my last blog I introduced the basics of using ASP.NET AJAX and WebAPI together in the same project.  In addition, I showed how to bind results from WebAPI to a Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Grid. In this blog I will continue down this path and implement insert, update, and delete operations using WebAPI and RadGrid!

Note: While this post focuses on using WebAPI in conjunction with RadGrid, most of the client code can be used when working with RadGrid in client mode.

Set It Up!

To get started an additional reference needs to be added to the project:

• System.Net.Http.Formatting

Adding this reference allows us...

It doesn’t even feel like it’s been that long since I wrote a post on “Telerik in Numbers” (almost 10 months to date), and that blog content feels very out of date. While I plan to update you with some new, fresh stats in the future, today I wanted to update you with some exciting news that will impact the stats I gave you on the number of offices and people we have.

I am really happy to announce the acquisition of NimblePros. Throughout the years we’ve had many touch points with Michelle and Steve Smith, the founders of NimblePros....

 

Starting today, and every week on Wednesday, I’ll be publishing a Tutorial to accompany one of the XAMLFlix videos. Today, to launch this new series, I have four tutorials to get us started:

RadChartView	Tutorial	Video
RadScheduleView	Tutorial	Video
RadBarCode	Tutorial	Video
RadGridView	Tutorial	Video

 

Please feel free to share your comments and feedback.  We’d especially love to hear which controls you’d like to see covered...

In a previous blog I showed how to customize Telerik OpenAccess ORM data mappings using custom TypeConverters.  In particular we looked at storing, and querying, an enum by its name rather than its int value.  In this example, I will show how to get OpenAccess to serialize a class to xml, and store it in the database.  In the end you will have a reusable TypeConverter you can use to store any class as XML using OpenAccess! :)

Creating the Type Converter

The first thing we need to do is create the type converter.  To do that, simply grab the basic skeleton I displayed...

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadTreeView for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadZipLibrary and RadTileView.

What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and...