Apr 24 2009

Building A Data-Driven Expense App with Silverlight 3

Category: silverlight 3.0 Beta 1Bil@l @ 09:34

Check this amazing article on Data-Driven apps in SL 3.0

Building A Data-Driven Expense App with Silverlight 3

 

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Apr 15 2009

Silverlight Release History : Q1 2009 SP1 (version 2009.1.413)

Category: silverlight 2.0 | Telerik ControlsBil@l @ 09:20

Q1 2009 SP1 (version 2009.1.413)

 

 

SilverlightGridView Icon

RadGridView for Silverlight

New Features:

  • CanUserSortColumns property added
  • Disabled CheckBox for boolean column in view mode instead True/False added
  • Cells property added for grid rows - Items is now obsolete.
  • ExcelML export added
  • Exporting improvements (styles & formatting)
  • Exporting event added
  • Support for mouse over state in Cells added
  • GridViewComboboxColumn added
  • DistinctValues IValueConverter support added
  • RowAppearance settings moved to GridViewDataControl (RowStyle, HeaderRowStyle, etc.) - RowAppearance is now obsolete
  • HeaderRowStyle property added for GridViewDataControl
  • GroupRowStyle property added for GridViewDataControl
  • NewRowStyle property added for GridViewDataControl
  • Added Validation style for Vista, Summer and Office_Black themes
  • TAB naviagation improvements
  • CellTemplate and CellEditTemplate DataTemplate properties for GridViewColumn added
  • CreateCellElement and CreateCellEditElement virtual methods for GridViewColumn added

Fixes:

  • Export does not take into account columns that are hidden is now fixed
  • Height cannot be set in XAML for the grid rows is now fixed
  • Duplicate rows in Export to Excel is now fixed
  • HeaderText cannot be set in runtime is now fixed
  • GridViewColumn IsVisible now will not reset GridViewDataControl template
  • Cells are not created if the grid is not visible
    Control+Click multiple selection broken after switching tabs in a TabControl is now fixed
  • Column reordering with custom filter description added to the composite filter description of the grid is now fixed
  • DataElement property of RowLoadedEventArgs throws exception on new row is now fixed
  • Async binding does not work properly with filtering
  • Sorting on nested or indexed properties is now fixed
  • Distinct values on ntext columns exception is now fixed
  • Sorting on ntext columns is now fixed
  • CustomTypeDescriptor problems with sorting and distinct values are now fixed (WPF only)
  • Filtering on string when target value is null is now fixed
  • GroupingRequested not raised on group panel cell close button click is now fixed
  • DataFormatString does not work properly on export is now fixed
  • Vertical scrollbar margin not calculated properly when new row is visible is now fixed
Silverlight RadChart Icon

RadChart

New Features:

  • Added two new 2D chart types: StackedLine and StackedSpline
  • Added AxisY.ExtendDirection property. This property will define if and in which direction AxisY will automatically add an additional step in order to ensure there is always a gap between the graph and the chart area top/bottom end. It is respected only when AutoRange property is set to true and IsZeroBasedProperty is treated with higher priority. The possible values are:

    • AxisExtendDirection.None - the Y axis will not be extended
    • AxisExtendDirection.Down - the Y axis will have an additional item at the bottom
    • AxisExtendDirection.Up - the Y axis will have an additional item at the top
    • AxisExtendDirection.Both - the Y axis will have an additional item at both - top and bottom
    • AxisExtendDirection.Smart - acts like AxisExtendDirection.Both with a single difference: the axis will never be extended outside the 0 value
  • New series types - StackedLine and StackedSpline
  • Exposed Style properties for customization of the visual elements of RadChart:

    • RadChart.TitleStyle - gets or sets the title style
    • RadChart.LegendStyle - gets or sets the legend style
    • SeriesDefinition.PointMarkItemStyle - gets or sets the Style associated with each point mark (where applicable)
    • SeriesDefinition.SeriesItemLabelStyle - gets or sets the series item label style
    • ChartArea.AxisXStyle - gets or sets the axis X style
    • ChartArea.AxisYStyle - gets or sets the axis Y style
    • ChartLegend.LegendItemStyle - gets or sets the legend item style
  • PointMarks shape and appearance can now be customized through
  • SeriesDefinition.Appearance.PointMark complex property
  • Added item tooltip format
  • Introduced automatic AxisX.LayoutMode selection that takes the actual displayed chart series into account

Changes:

  • Fixed an issue with series item format not working for the last item
  • Applying styles to AxisXLabel2D is now possible
  • Fixed an issue with wrong ItemIndex in ChartItemClickEventArgs for radial series.

Breaking Changes:

  • AxisY.AutoScale is now obsolete. Please, use AutoRange property instead
  • Numeric label formats have changed - there is no {0} placeholder used anymore. For example the old format "{0:C}" is now written as "C"

RadGauge

New Features:

  • Semi-circle styles for radial gauges
  • Quadrant-like styles for radial gauges
Silverlight RadEditor Icon

RadEditor

Fixes in Firefox:

  • Telerik.Windows.Controls.Editor.dll – fixed mistaken assembly info affecting IntelliSense
SilverlightMaskedTextBox Icon

RadMaskedTextBox

  • SelectionStart, SelectionLength, AutoCompleteInterval - new properties added
RadPanelBar

RadPanelBar

  • Accordion functionality
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RadDragAndDropManager

  • Drag-Related properties can now be set in the constructor of the RootVisual, no Null Exceptions will occur
  • When the drag Source is set as a DragCue, it is correctly put back in the visual tree on drop complete
  • Drag-drop across multiple nested windows now works as expected
RadTabControl Icon

RadTabControl

  • TemplateBinding to HeaderTemplate now added in all templates
RadWindow Icon

RadWindow

  • Modal Window background now visible in Alert, Prompt, Confirm.
RadMediaPlayer Icon

RadMediaPlayer

Fixes:

  • Fixed RadMediaPlayer bug affecting the CurrentItem property when set before the template has been applied
  • Removed a Loaded Trigger which confused Blend during template editing

Memory Leak Fixes:

  • RadWindow, RadTreeView, RadMenu, RadNumericUpDown, RadSlider

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Apr 14 2009

Microsoft Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and Sample Code

Category: silverlight 2.0Bil@l @ 00:31

Silverlight team released the Microsoft Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and Sample code.

You can grab this White Paper + Sample code by following this URL (Here)

 

Hope you like and enjoy the new resource!

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Apr 11 2009

The imported project "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\StyleCop\v4.3\Microsoft.Style.Targets" was not found ....

Category: Telerik Controls | Visual Studio 2008Bil@l @ 17:35

I was trying to open a Project for one of the Telerik source code projects and got the above error.

All what I had to do is just make sure VS SP1 is installed. That's it.

 

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Apr 1 2009

MVP for the 5th time

Category: MVP AwardBil@l @ 14:50

Dear Bilal Haidar,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

 

Thank you Microsoft!

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