December 2010 - Posts - Mehul Harry's DevExpress Blog

Happy Holidays from DevExpress!

Your Greeting Card

Check out this special holiday greeting card that the DevExpress design team put together just for you:

Uses for the greeting card:

Download and use the greeting card as a wallpaper
Print and attach it to your favorite winter sweater
Be content and know that you have our gratitude

Watch Holiday Video

And be sure to watch the “Happy Holidays from DevExpress” video too.

Happy Holidays!

To all of our loyal fans and customers, Thank You Very Much!

Posted Dec 23 2010, 02:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 5 comment(s)

MVC 3 with K. Scott Allen (aka OdeToCode) - Video Interview

Check out this video with K. Scott Allen from the Herding Code podcast team.

I met K. Scott at the recent DevConnections 2010 conference where he was presenting several sessions on MVC, TDD and best practices.

Watch the video interview with K. Scott Allen as we discuss:

Herding Code podcast – They discuss all sorts of fun topics like Mono, Android, node.js. Here’s a recent episode that I enjoyed about Silverlight and HTML5.
MVC 3 – What’s New
- New Razor engine – Why it’s better
- Unobtrusive JavaScript
- Better support for Dependency Injection
- Global Action Filters

Read Scott Guthrie’s Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 post to learn more.

You can find K. Scott Allen online at:

Thanks Scott!

Drop me a line below with your thoughts about the video and ASP.NET MVC 3.

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 23 2010, 08:00 AM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: Conference, Video, ASP.NET MVC, Interview

Watch The "Happy Holidays from DevExpress" Video!

Check out this short 2 minute “Happy Holidays from DevExpress” video.

Enjoy as Amanda reads to you a magical holiday tale of the leading .NET vendor and our activities from this past year:

Watch the ‘Happy Holidays’ video and THANK YOU from everyone at DevExpress!

Posted Dec 22 2010, 04:30 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Video

Expose OData Feed Through XPO Toolkit (includes samples)

Check out this OData and XPO (our ORM) CodePlex project below.

What is OData?

First, a short explanation of the Open Data Protocol as described by the odata.org website:

There is a vast amount of data available today and data is now being collected and stored at a rate never seen before. Much, if not most, of this data however is locked into specific applications or formats and difficult to access or to integrate into new uses.

Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol(AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores. The protocol emerged from experiences implementing AtomPub clients and servers in a variety of products over the past several years. OData is being used to expose and access information from a variety of sources including, but not limited to, relational databases, file systems, content management systems and traditional Web sites.

OData is consistent with the way the Web works - it makes a deep commitment to URIs for resource identification and commits to an HTTP-based, uniform interface for interacting with those resources (just like the Web). This commitment to core Web principles allows OData to enable a new level of data integration and interoperability across a broad range of clients, servers, services, and tools.

OData is released under the Open Specification Promise to allow anyone to freely interoperate with OData implementations.

Learn more here: odata.org

Watch Scott Hanselman's "OData Basics" video to get a great overview.

The XPO Toolkit

XPO If you use eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) then here’s where it gets fun. There is a free toolkit that allows you to expose your data as an OData feed with just a few lines of code.

Check out the related blog articles on it so far:

Download From CodePlex

Download the project source code and samples here: eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) Toolkit

Samples:

Calendar - Example shows how to create an OData feed and consume it using a Scheduler Control
Channel - Example shows how to create a Video feed application in Silverlight

Watch Video Webinar

Watch the video of the Introduction to OData webinar to learn about OData and WinForms Scheduler data binding:

Azret Botash is our resident OData guru and he'd love to hear from you about anything and everything related to OData.

Try the OData XPO Toolkit and then drop me a line below with your thoughts. Thanks.

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DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 20 2010, 04:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: XPO, OData

Read DevExpress and MSDN Blogs in VS2010

If you live inside the Visual Studio 2010 IDE all day then you’ll love the ability to read the DevExpress and MSDN blogs using this new RSS feed:

http://www.feedcombine.co.uk/feed.php?id=47090ed9945838e0f2fa383484fe42b4

The RSS feed combines blog posts from the MSDN and DevExpress blogs:

Here’s how to add it to your VS2010 Start Page:

Click on the ‘Latest News’ tab of the start page.
Paste this URL into the ‘RSS Feed’ text box: http://www.feedcombine.co.uk/feed.php?id=47090ed9945838e0f2fa383484fe42b4
Click the Refresh button on the right side of the text box.

That’s it, you now have all the news from both DevExpress and MSDN in your Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

Enjoy.

PS – Mark Miller works in the VS2010 IDE all the time, except when he’s sleeping. He came up with this useful feed. However, DevExpress does not have any official support for this RSS feed.

Want to experience a better Visual Studio?

Install CodeRush by downloading the free lite version here: CodeRush Xpress

Or better yet, try the full blown package free for 30 days – CodeRush and Refactor Pro Download!

Posted Dec 20 2010, 11:00 AM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: VS2010, News

ASP.NET Rating Control - New Client-side Events

Check out the updated demo for the ASP.NET Rating control:

New Client-Side Events

For the DXperience v2010.2 release, we’ve added 2 new client-side events that allow you to respond when the end-users manipulate the control.

ItemMouseOver – Occurs on mouse over of the control
ItemMouseOut – Occurs when mouse leaves the control’s area

You still have the ItemClick event to respond to any client-side clicks too.

Check out the new demo and then add the rating control to your web projects. Thanks!

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 16 2010, 01:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: DXperience, Features, ASP.NET, ASPxRatingControl

ASP.NET Calendar - Multi-Month View

Check out this new demo for the ASP.NET Calendar control that shows you how to display multiple months with one control:

And multiple calendars are all displayed sequentially so your end-users can get a longer view of the time line.

While the demo is new for DXperience v2010.2, this feature has actually been around for 2 years!

Rows and Columns

The Rows and Columns properties of the ASPxCalendar allow you to easily display the multiple calendars.

The Rows and Columns properties can be set in the ASPX markup or the server side. For example, in the demo above, the combo box code that switches the calendar looks like this on the server-side:

switch (ddlColumnsPerRows.SelectedItem.Value.ToString()) { 
    case "2x2":
        calendar.Rows = 2;
        calendar.Columns = 2;
        break;
    case "1x3":
        calendar.Columns = 1;
        calendar.Rows = 3;
        break;
    case "2x1":
        calendar.Columns = 2;
        calendar.Rows = 1;
        break;
}

There’s a Demo for that

Check out the ASPxCalendar’s Multi-Month View online demo to see a live version of this feature. You can also see the code used in the demo by clicking on the ‘Code’ tab.

Check out the ASPxCalendar’s Multi-Month View online demo and then drop me a line below with your thoughts.

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 15 2010, 07:00 AM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Features, ASP.NET, ASPxEditors

ASP.NET TreeList - Display a Popup Edit Form

Check out the ASP.NET TreeList – How to display a popup edit form screencast:

In addition to using the in-line Edit Row and/or built-in Edit Form, the Tree List control cell values can now be edited via a fully customizable Popup Edit Form.

By default, the popup is displayed near the node whose values are currently being edited, however, you can easily define a custom position and layout of the Popup Edit Form.

Watch the ASP.NET TreeList – How to display a popup edit form screencast. Then drop me a line below with your thoughts. Thanks.

Want to experience a better Visual Studio?

Install CodeRush by downloading the free lite version here: CodeRush Xpress

Or better yet, try the full blown package free for 30 days – CodeRush and Refactor Pro Download!

Posted Dec 10 2010, 04:55 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: screencast, ASPxTreeList, ASP.NET, v2010.2

ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks : Watch Post-Webinar Video

Check out the video from the my recent webinar on the ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks session:

The webinar covers many useful tips about the the ASPxGridView. I also cover 2 big coding samples:

How to data bind to large data sources
Use templates with dynamic interaction (very useful and slick demo)

ASP.NET GridView – Cell Templates Demo

Other links mentioned in the video:

Watch the webinar video and then drop me a line below with your thoughts and questions please. Thanks!

PS – I apologize for my voice, I was bit under the weather. However, The Show Must Go On! Smile

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 10 2010, 04:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: screencast, Video, Features, ASP.NET, ASP.NET GridView, Client-side, callback, ASPxGridView, training, JavaScript

ASP.NET Popup Control - Setup On-Demand Content Loading

Learn how to setup the new On-Demand Content Loading feature of the ASPxPopupControl. The ASP.NET Popup Control now provides the ability to load the content of popup windows on demand.

Benefits

Using the postponed load of popup window contents, you can enhance the response time of your web page on its initial load.

You can also update the content of popup windows programmatically, on demand.

Watch the “ASP.NET Popup Control – Setup On-Demand Content Loading” screencast:

Online Demo and Source

Try the feature online here: ASPxPopupControl - Load Content on Demand

You can also view the full source code for that demo or try it locally in your visual studio instance.

Check out the new On-Demand Content Loading screencast. Then drop me a line below with your thoughts. Thanks.

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 06 2010, 02:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: screencast, How-To, ASP.NET, callback, ASPxPopupControl, v2010.2

ASP.NET Grid Lookup - Data Bind To Large Data Sources

Check out the new ASP.NET Grid Lookup’s “Server Mode” feature that allows you to data bind to large data sources while still maintaining a performant User Interface.

Watch the short 5 minute “ASP.NET Grid Lookup Control - Server Mode for Large Databases” screencast to see how data bind to a LINQ to SQL class using the LinqServerModeDataSource:

Then drop me a comment below with your thoughts and questions, thanks.

Want to experience a better Visual Studio?

Install CodeRush by downloading the free lite version here: CodeRush Xpress

Or better yet, try the full blown package free for 30 days – CodeRush and Refactor Pro Download!

Posted Dec 04 2010, 04:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: screencast, How-To, ASP.NET, v2010.2, ASPxGridLookup

ASP.NET TreeView and Splitter- How to create an MSDN-style help navigation page layout

Check out the Code Central web project sample below that shows you how to create a help navigation layout using the ASP.NET TreeView and Splitter controls:

How to create help navigation page layout using ASPxTreeView and ASPxSplitter (E2673)

This sample shows a typical solution for how the ASP.NET TreeView control could be used in your websites.

For example, when a user types some text in the search box and clicks the search button then we’ll locate the corresponding node and make it visible in the ASP.NET TreeView control.

This sample uses the ASPxSplitter and the new ASPxTreeView controls to make a typical MSDN-style page layout.

Easy Visual Studio Integration

The Code Central repository contains full projects that easily open in your Visual Studio instance in one-click!

Try it yourself then drop me a line below with your thoughts. Thanks!

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 04 2010, 03:10 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: ASPxperience, How-To, ASP.NET, Code Central, TreeView

ASP.NET Combo Box - Setup Delayed Filtering

Check out this short 3 minute ASP.NET Combo box screencast that shows you how to setup the useful new feature called ‘delayed filtering’:

The feature can be set using the new FilterMinLength property.

Try the new delayed filtering feature of our ASP.NET Combo box, the ASPxComboBox.

Then drop me a comment below with your thoughts please, thanks!

DXperience? What's That?

DXperience is the .NET developer's secret weapon. Get full access to a complete suite of professional components that let you instantly drop in new features, designer styles and fast performance for your applications. Try a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 02 2010, 05:00 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: screencast, ASP.NET, ASPxEditors, v2010.2

Register for ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks Webinar - December 9th, 2010

Thursday December 9, 2010 01:00pm EDT | 10:00am PDT | 05:00pm GMT

Subject: ASP.NET GridView Tips and Tricks
Date: Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Time: 10am PDT (GMT -07:00)
Length: 1 hour (but may go longer)
Presenters: Mehul Harry
Register here - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/707888974

Who should attend:

This session is for DevExpress customers who want to learn more about the DevExpress ASPxGridView.

What Attendees will learn:

This session will provide you with code samples of how to:

Data binding to a large data source via the Server Mode
Extending via templates
Client-Side capabilities

Presenters

Mehul Harry
Technical Evangelist – ASP.NET Team

Amanda Christensen
Host

Register Soon

What are you waiting for? Go register, now.

Posted Dec 02 2010, 03:55 PM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, Webinar

Just Launched mvc.devexpress.com - New ASP.NET MVC Extensions Demo Website

Check out the new DevExpress ASP.NET MVC Extensions online now by going to:

http://mvc.devexpress.com

There are over 30 ASP.NET MVC Extensions in our first major ASP.NET MVC product release. You can see many of the major features by clicking on the image below:

Benefits

Check out the short 4 minute “New Demos and Themes” screencast which shows you the benefits of the new Demos and how to navigate them:

Learn

Get started creating DevExpress ASP.NET MVC Extension projects by:

Use the simple “ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application Project Template for VS2008 and VS2010” which sets up everything you need for references and such.
Watch the “Getting Started with GridView Extension in ASP.NET MVC” screencast.
Enjoy the benefits and features of a powerful MVC Extensions in your ASP.NET MVC web projects.

Then drop me a line below with your thoughts on the new DevExpress ASP.NET MVC Demos website. Thanks!

Build Your Best - Without Limits or Compromise

Try the DevExpress ASP.NET MVC Extensions online now: http://mvc.devexpress.com

Read the latest news about DevExpress ASP.NET MVC Extensions

Download a fully-functional version of DXperience for free now: http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/

Posted Dec 02 2010, 10:20 AM by Mehul Harry (DevExpress) with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Features, ASP.NET MVC, v2010.2

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