On Dec 15 2016, we finished yet another webinar. These webinars are our monthly webinars we do on 2/3/4 Thu of every month between 12-1PM IST. For this webinar our interest was to showcase how you can easily consume your cloud data for e.g. Salesforce in your ASP.NET Web Applications using our product called “Data Direct Cloud”.
This blog post will be a recap of the webinar and i will provide you the slide deck & video recording of the webinar itself. Continue reading
On May 4 2016 we did a release of our popular bundled software product line called Telerik DevCraft. This release is called R2 or Release 2 of 2016. In this blog post i will try to give you a summary of things you can find in R2 2016.
Hi there. We are back with one more webinar resources blog post. On Apr 21 we conducted a webinar on one of the hottest topic now in the web world. The webinar was titled “The Bleeding Edge – What’s New in Angular 2”. In this blog post we will recap the webinar and you will be able to go through the slide deck used for the webinar and the video recording of the webinar.
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Find sample used in this blog on JSFiddle
Yes I know you love Kendo UI and you love MVVM as well. There are many libraries out there like Knockouts to help you creating HTML5 Apps adhering to MVVM pattern. In this post we will learn to create a simple application using MVVM.
ViewModel can be created using Kendo.observable. Object of Kendo.observable will notify any changes to view. Let us create a studentViewModel as below.
var studentViewModel = kendo.observable({
name: "Dhananjay Kumar",
age : 30 ,
sayHello: function () {
var name = this.get("name");
var age = this.get("age");
alert("Hello, " + name + "You are" + age + "Years Old") ;
}
});
studentViewModel contains two properties and one method sayHello.
In second step let us go ahead and create View. You need to bind ViewModel to view.
<div id="studentview">
<input data-bind="value: name" />
<input data-bind="value: age" />
<button data-bind="click: sayHello">Say Hello</button>
</div>
Above in studentview , we are binding value of input types and click of button. There are many other HTML properties can be bind using Kendo UI MVVM like Text , Value , Visible , Html etc.
As you see we are using data-bind property to perform binding.
Third and final step you need to do is to bind View and ViewModel. Either you can bind ViewModel to a particular view (in this case div with id studentview) or you can bind ViewModel to any DOM element using body. Binding can be done as follows,
kendo.bind($("#studentview"), studentViewModel);
This is all what you need to do to start creating HTML 5 Apps adhering MVVM pattern using Kendo UI. When you run app, you shall get expected output as below,
Last but not least do not forget to add references of KendoUI library in your project.
Find sample used in this blog on JSFiddle
I hope you find this post useful. Thanks for reading.
On May 16 we conducted a webinar titled “Web Content Management with Sitefinity”. We pretty much had a full house on that day and we had a great show from Greg our Sitefinity Sales Engineer. We are thankful to one and all who attended the webinar and posted all your questions pertaining to Content Management System and Sitefinity in particular.
Slide deck from the webinar:
Greg did a great job in showing Sitefinity in action. So there was hardly any slides used. But if you would like to review the presentation, we have provided the same below:
Questions & Answers:
Many of you had questions regarding the Sitefinity as a product. Here is a quick recap of some of the major questions asked during the webinar:
Q: Could you provide some website url which are running using sitefinity
A: You can go to SiteFinity.com and look at Showcase area http://www.sitefinity.com/customers/showcases .
Q: is it customization friendly?
A: If you know ASP.NET WebForms or MVC – you can customize it to your will and wish
Q: what is the cost of license?
A: Take a look at pricing here http://www.sitefinity.com/purchase
Q: What is Connector for SharePoint?
A: If you have already an investment with SharePoint you can do a two way sync from Sitefinity to SP and vice versa using the connectors. You can know more about this here: http://www.sitefinity.com/sharepoint-integration
Q: Can we add new Contents other than in built Contents?
A: Yes you can create your custom content.
Q: Can we host the website built on Sitefinity on cloud?
A: Yes we support Azure – http://www.sitefinity.com/benefits/for-it-managers/windows-azure
Q: Does Sitefinity provide any Template Designer?
A: You can always upload a ASP.NET Master Page and make it as a template for your page. We do have a online template creator which lets you design a template with complete drag and drop feature.
Q: Can we integrate external controls like payment gateway to the pages ?
A: Yes. We have a ecommerce module built it in. So integration with payment gateways is easy
Q: Can the content be Role based contents as per authentication?
A: Yes. Granular access to content is possible with Sitefinity.
Q: Can we host MVC3 based pages?
A: Yes. we support hybrid mode of development. Meaning you can customize and have either a Web Form based User Control as a customized widget or MVC based widget.
Q: how can we control the page access rights?
A: The page themselves have access rights defined which can be controlled from the back end.
Q: Is Sitefinity limited to e-Commerce only?
A: – No. We have news/events/forums/blog etc. modules out of the box. Take a look at our showcase area to see how this is used for a real world examples.
Q: : Can I develop and apply themes on Sitefinity?
A: Yes. Sitefinity supports ASP.NET theming.
Q: Can we create CSS layout from own template?
A: Yes you can do that.
Q: Can i apply different CSS/Page modeling for different display size?
A: Yes you can. Sitefinity comes with Responsive Design Module out of the box which will let you create different rule based on where your content can be viewed. The rule will define how your content needs to be shown when rendered on those devices/screen widths and Sitefinity will automatically take care of that.
Q: Can you explain how we can add DLL reference?
A: Sitefinity source code is a ASP.NET solution. so you develop using the VS IDE and add reference like you do with any asp.net app.
Q: Other that .NET 4.0, does Sitefinity have dependency on any other third party libraries?
A: No – we use our own controls within Sitefinity for e.g. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Kendo UI, Open Access ORM.
Q: Can i create large web application using Sitefinity?
A: Yes you can. Take a look at our showcases area to see what people have built with Sitefinity: http://www.sitefinity.com/customers/showcases
Q: Can we develop application by Sitefinity for my android phone?
A: Yes. With Sitefinity 6 we have a mechanism where in you can create a custom module and with one click a Hybrid Mobile Application can be created for this custom module. The app will be able to perform full CRUD on your module and since it is hybrid, it can run on all platforms and provide you with native look and feel as we use Kendo UI Mobile controls.
Q: what are the features of Sitefinity?
A: Sitefinity features are listed here: – http://www.sitefinity.com/product/see-also/cms-features-list
Q: Is any Open Source version available of Sitefinity?
A: We do not have any Open Source version of Sitefinity. But we do have Community Edition which is completely free for personal site scenario. Here is more info on what does Community Edition contain: http://www.sitefinity.com/try-now/free-asp-net-cms
Q: Which version of ASP.Net does this belong to?
A: Currently Sitefinity supports Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Q: Does it support workflow functionality?
A: Absolutely. Custom and standard workflows, all based on Windows Workflow Foundation 4
Telerik .NET Ninja T-Shirt Giveaway:
We had promised that we will be giving away 2 .NET Ninja T-Shirts as a webinar give away. We normally pick 2 people randomly from the audience and raffle it out. So, as part of this webinar we are happy to say that the following 2 people are winners of our .NET Ninja T-Shirts:
Congratulations to the winners. We will be contacting you shortly as we need your postal address to ship your t-shirts. Rest of you folks, don’t worry you still have chance to win the t-shirt. Do attend our next webinar which is on May 30 titled – MVVM and Validation with Kendo UI Web.
One of the new controls released as part of the Q2 2012 release for ASP.NET AJAX is RadHtmlChart. We at Telerik think that RadHtmlChart is a powerful Data Visualization tool out of the box for your applications.
RadHtmlChart is built on top of HTML5 and renders the chart as SVG when viewed on modern browsers and renders the chart as VML in older browsers. It provides a flexible data binding options and a remarkable performance.
In this post we will spend some time getting a first look at different chart types supported by this control. RadHtmlChart supports the following 6 chart types at the moment:
Let us take closer look at each of the above chart types.
Bar Chart:
The Bar Chart shows the data as horizontal bars whose lengths vary according to their value. These types of charts are useful for showing a comparison between several sets of data. Each series will be colored differently automatically for easier reading.
Bar Chart allows you as a developer to fully customize it according to your needs.
Column Chart:
Unlike Bar Chart, the Column Chart shows the data as vertical bars. The length of the bars vary according to their value. Similar to Bar Chart this chart is also useful for showing comparisons between several sets of data. Pretty much similar to Bar Chart and can be fully customized to your needs.
Line Chart:
Line Chart shows the data as a continuous line that pass through points defined by their item’s value. These types of charts are useful in showing trends over time and can be used to compare several sets of same data. Again this chart is also fully customizable to your needs.
Pie Chart:
The Pie Chart displays the data as sectors from a circle. These types of charts are useful for displaying data as parts of a whole. This chart displays a single series of data in a two dimensional circle.
Scatter Chart:
The Scatter Chart as the name goes scatters points on X and Y axis. It shows the data as points defined by their item’s value. The X axis in Scatter Chart is also numerical and does not require items. Scatter Charts are useful in showing relations between different sets of data for example scientific or experimental results. Again this can be fully customized according to your requirements.
Scatter Line Chart:
The Scatter Line Chart is very similar to Scatter Chart. This also shows data as points defined by their item’s values. X axis is also numerical and does not require any items. Difference between Scatter and Scatter Line chart is that the subsequent points are connected with lines. Thus it will account for any missing values in a series. A very useful chart when comparing two sets of data which are different in nature or can be used in scenarios where you have 2 numerical axes on a line type chart. Similar to all other charts this can be customized too.
In this post I just wanted to cover the different charting options that is provided by the new RadHtmlChart for ASP.NET AJAX. If you have a charting requirements I think this will play well due to the fact that this follows HTML5 standards and pretty much all the new modern browsers have embraced HTML5 quite well. Hope you have got an idea of the different options available as part of this control and you are ready to try them out. I will be covering another series of post on how to create each of these report in a future post. The RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX is available for a free 30 day trial. So what you waiting for – go ahead, download and play with it.
We at Telerik shipped our second release of the year which we call it as Q2 release, in June 2012. In this post we will look at what are the new controls available under RadControls for Web which includes ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight.
RadControls for Web consists of the following suites:
So lets look at new controls added in Q2 release one by one.
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX:
This suite is a complete ASP.NET AJAX development toolset. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX contains over 70 controls and helps in rapid component based UI development. In Q2 2012 release we have added 3 new controls. They are:
HTML Chart:
HTML5 Chart control also known as RadHtmlChart provides a powerful charting mechanism. The charts are based on SVG format for modern browsers and VML for older browsers. Here are some of the salient features of HTML5 Chart control:
Barcode:
Barcode control enables you to quickly and easily create industry standard barcode formats to your applications. Here again the barcode is generated in SVG format for modern browsers and VML format for older browsers.
ODataDataSource:
ODataDataSource control enables you to codelessly bind your controls to OData Services.This control supports a Visual Studio design time wizard to query any Odata service supporting JSON and XML. So you can visualize the data even before you binding it. As said earlier this allows you to codelessly bind the odata services to controls like TreeView, Grid etc,
RadControls for ASP.NET MVC:
With Q2 release we no longer promote the ASP.NET MVC extensions, rather we advice you to migrate to our new breed of UI framework known as Kendo UI which composes of Web, DataVisualization and Mobile contols. Kendo UI is the new platform for HTML5/JavaScript development. Kendo UI Web controls also comes with server side wrappers for ASP.NET MVC for easier development. You can know more about Kendo UI at www.kendoui.com.
In Q2 release 1 new widget was added to Kendo UI Web suite.
DateTimePicker:
As the name goes this is a UI widget which allows you to select Date as well as time within in one single widget/control. If your scenario requires for a Date and Time to be shown, this control can be used instead of two controls – one to show Date and another to show Time.
RadControls for Silverlight:
This suite is one of the industry’s leading suite of Silverlight controls for today’s Line Of Business (LOB) application development. RadControls for Silverlight helps you to create engaging and interactive user experiences for Web and Desktop. This suite contains over 65 controls which will surely cut your development time.
In Q2 release, there were 2 new controls added to the suite. They are:
RadHeatMap:
Heat Map control is a matrix like control that uses color to encode values along two axes. Some of the features of this controls are:
RadGanttView:
This control as the name goes, allows you to visualize and manage hierarchical project data as a Gantt Chart. This has the capability to visualize different types of project data such as Tasks, Milestones, Summaries, and also the relations between them. You can highlight different types of important items like late or critical tasks. Another feature of the control is the ability to import data from your MS project and visualize it in a friendly way.
Summary:
In this post we looked at new controls released as part of the Q2 Release under RadControls for Web suite. We looked at 3 core technologies under Web i.e. ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight – and looked at the new controls available under each of those suites, Hope you are excited to try these new controls yourselves. Don’t forget that all these controls suites are available for free 30 Day trial downloads.
Overview:
In this post, we will quickly look at the factors that will compel you to consider Telerik RadControls as the framework for all your User Interface layers in your projects. So buckle up and let’s go for a ride with Telerik RadControls.
RadControls Defined:
Rad or RAD – stands for Rapid Application Development and RadControls are nothing but controls which help you in Rapid Application Development. Telerik offers over 10 years of aggressive development which includes a set course of 3 releases per year & the Service Packs, has been able to come out with industry leading UI component suite for Microsoft ASP.NET technology which includes AJAX, MVC and Silverlight. There are nearly 175+ controls under the combined umbrella of AJAX, MVC and Silverlight. The controls themselves, enhance the framework provided controls with a lot of out of the box features. For e.g. If you consider the RadGridView we complement the framework Grid with features such as Filtering, Grouping, Sorting, Paging and export capability. Imagine if you had the onus of writing the paging and export all by yourself. I have been a programmer for close to a decade and I would say it will be like reinventing the wheel. So, with RadControls you just have to worry about your business need and the control complements your requirement with out of the box features.
RadControls Decision Factors:
Having known about RadControls and what they are, next question will be – Why should you choose RadControls? Lets quickly run through some of the check list before you decide:
If you have answered Yes to the above checklist – then – RadControls is what you need. RadControls will help you to achieve all of the above mentioned points in the check list. So I highly recommend you to download a trial and test drive the following RadControls:
RadControls and Developers:
Developer friendliness is one of the important factors for any UI component vendor. Keeping the developers in mind helps Telerik adopt the highest degree of friendliness when it comes to the UI controls. There are three main factors which we think makes a developers life easy when working with our RadControls. They are:
RadControls and Themes:
One of the deciding factors we looked at earlier was that of developing a professional looking web application. What we needed to make our application look like a professional app is style sheets. Be it Web app or Silverlight app, styles play a pivotal role in the look and feel of any User Interface. Most of the developers are not designers – which includes me too :). So the RadControls suite comes to the rescue by way of packaging what we call as Themes i.e. a complete style sheet which adheres to one common color scheme across the controls. The Telerik RadControls suite comes bundled with close to 25+ themes under the combined umbrella of ASP.NET AJAX, MVC and Silverlight. So out of the box we ship 25+ themes to use in your production level application. If that is not enough you can always create your own theme and embed the same in your application. ASP.NET AJAX and MVC suites provide a Visual Theme Builder which can be used to create your custom themes. Here are the links for Visual Theme Builder:
Summary:
Telerik RadControls for Web provides a lot of benefit to enterprises in not only speeding up the development life-cycle but also cuts down on the cost and time of development. It also is developer friendly with seamless Visual Studio integration and design time wizard to help code faster. As said in the previous sections, there are nearly 175+ controls to play around in the area of AJAX, MVC and Silverlight. If that doesn’t excite you then I don’t know what will :). Download the 30 day trial we have and give it a try. I bet you will fall in love with the RadControls.
Till next time – Happy Coding !!!
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