3D in Silverlight from Telerik (blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 3 months ago

It’s an absolute pleasure to share some bit of good news with all our customers and fans. One of our secret Telerik Labs projects is shaping up pretty well. As the title suggests, its a homebrew Silverlight 2 3D engine with perspective and lighting (more features are in the works). Since the movie Pink Panther 2 is coming out soon we decided it will be cool to show off the technology with our own 3D Silverlight pink panther. Enter the panther! While this is only a pink panther you can probably imagine the slick products this technology can translate to. I am not at liberty to spit it out, but you can expect some seriously cool Silverlight stuff to come out from Telerik. Actually I can do better than that – the first person to nail in the product that will make use of the engine will win a Telerik t-shirt! If you are late don’t despair - particularly good ideas will also net you a shirt! read more...

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Passing Parameters Into Silverlight Applications (silverlight.net)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 5 months ago

The idea is this: you want to be able to create a Silverlight application that allows for passing in some information through the html or aspx page that will be integrated into the Silverlight application at run time. Remembering that Silverlight runs on the client, that information must be picked up just as the application begins to run inside its hosting html or aspx page. Here, briefly, is how you can do that.... read more...

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String Extraction(west-wind.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 5 months ago

Ah thought I go back to basics today for a post. An operation I rely on a lot when I’m working with text is the ability to extract strings with delimiters from within another string. RegEx can be quite useful for many scenarios of finding matches and extracting text, but personally for the 10 times a year when I need to use RegEx expressions I tend to relearn most of the cryptic syntax each time. What should take me a couple minutes usually turns into a half an hour of experimenting with RegEx Buddy for me... read more...

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SQL Server 2008 Error: 'Saving changes is not permitted.'(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 6 months ago

Find out how to resolve the SQL Server 2008 Error: 'Saving changes is not permitted.' read more...

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Visual Studio Tip: Debugging Hints(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 6 months ago

Several debugging tips for developers using Visual Studio. Learn how to step over simple properties, set tracepoints, set conditional breakpoints, and quickly add .NET Framework source reference to VS 2008. read more...

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Visual Studio Tip: Creating Your Own Code Snipp(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 8 months ago

Speed up development time by learning how to create and import your own code snippets in Visual Studio. read more...

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Using an HttpModule to Run a Background Service(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 10 months ago

This is a great technique for those of you who need to run a service on your web server, but are using shared hosting and don't have the ability to do so. read more...

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Telerik TV Launches Episode 3 - SimNet(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 10 months ago

Join Carl Franklin in the latest episode of Telerik TV as he hosts Torger J. Wuellner of Triad Interactive. In this episode Torger shows off SimNet, an e-learning platform which offers students the opportunity to learn Microsoft tools in a simulated Microsoft Office and Windows Vista environment. SimNet's portal site is built with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and is packed full of cool features. Watch as Torger demonstrates how he was able to use the built-in functionality of a RadWindow control to pass data to its parent page, or how he was able to take advantage of the RadGrid's advanced features to easily export records to Excel. You don't want to miss this opportunity to see how the folks at Triad Interactive used Telerik's tools to create a rich, interactive web application. If you or someone you know is interested in showcasing their project on Telerik TV, please visit the Telerik TV web site and click the 'Submit your app' link. read more...

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Kevin Babcock > What To Do When Your Toolbox is Devoid of RadControls(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by kevinbabcock(345) 3 years, 10 months ago

Unplug your wireless mouse. I promise I’m not crazy. That’s really the answer. And now that I’ve gone Tarantino on this blog post, let me give you the rest of the story. My development lately has been solely on my new laptop. However, tonight I decided to rebuild my desktop PC, loading it up with Visual Studio and the latest RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX so that I could work on a project. After spending several hours installing Vista, drivers, and Visual Studio I was finally ready to load up the Telerik bits and get to work. The installation went smoothly and I thought all was well, that was until I started up a new project and went looking for my favorite RadControls. Nothing. Hmm, that’s not right. They’re supposed to be installed into the toolbox automatically. So I go to add them manually and much to my surprise they are already there, but disabled. For the next two hours I rack my brain trying to figure out why they wouldn’t be showing up in my toolbox. Sure, I could manually add the DLL and register it in my web.config, but that’s extra work and the prospect of repeating such an annoying task for every project isn’t too appealing. Not to mention the fact that my inability to solve this mystery is driving me crazy. So I started scouring the Telerik forums and Google in hopes of stumbling upon a blog post or forum question from someone with a similar problem. And finally, after bouncing through several forum threads and blog posts I came to the solution: unplug your wireless mouse. Huh? How in the world would my wireless mouse be keeping the controls out of my toolbox. Well, I’ve tried just about everything else, so I went with it. Sure enough, the solution was that simple. RadControls were pleasantly staring back at me from my toolbox and another problem was solved. It turns out this problem rears its ugly head most often with the Microsoft laser mouse. It’s also not a problem specific to Telerik’s controls, but with Visual Studio itself. I had a hard time digging up dirt on the specifics, but Rick Strahl blogged about it more in-depth earlier this year. While the why is still a mystery to me, I’ll leave the how here for you. May it save you hours of frustration. * Close all instances of Visual Studio * Unplug your wireless mouse * Launch Visual Studio and open your project * Wait for the controls to appear * Plug your wireless mouse back in read more...

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