http://techie-buzz.com/utilites/top-free-utilities-to-rename-multiple-files.html

Free Utility called:

Den4b Renamer

Here I am removing (Custom) from filenames.  Awesome tool.

Here is the blurb:

Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX includes more than 60 controls with proven reliability that help you build high-quality, professional line of business web applications. From the leading AJAX data grid to the full-featured HTML editor used by Microsoft on sites like MSDN, you have all the building blocks for maximizing productivity and creating rich, SEO-friendly, high-performance Enterprise web applications.

or what I read this as:

Helps you make business web apps.

Cost is about USD$1000 ish.

After the install it gives you a new menu in VS2008:

Can add a skin..

Having a look at the Examples

c:\Program Files\Telerik\RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2010\Live Demos

**Explore the project examples for LinqToSQL and DataGrid

Opened the sln file in VS2010 (it didn’t seem to like vs2008, which is fine – gives an excuse to start playing with 2010!)

compile time took ages! And didn’t work.  Nice.

MyBusinessObjectCollection is not defined

Read the Documentation?

If all else fails, read the documentation (installed on the local machine).  Same as online.

Looking at tv.telerik.com

RADScheduler – scheduling.   Very feature rich!

sln in \code\telerik\scheduler

Trying the courseware:

http://www.telerik.com/support/documentation-and-tutorials/step-by-step-tutorial-for-ajax.aspx

Hmm – broadband going at snails pace here in NZ at night time.. 90mb download.

How I love having lots of memory :-)

RadMenu, RadToolBar, RadTabStrip

C:\Documents and Settings\dave\My Documents\downloads\RadControlsAJAXCourseware\Courseware_Projects\Navigation\CS

Lots of good examples!

Multipage

RadColorPicker

RadCalendar

Navigation / ServerLocatingItems

RADToolBar, RadPanelBar

Nav / ServerSide

making the navigation on the server dynamically

notice RADAjaxManager.. displays a popup after postback.

ServerSide2

ServerTags

RADTabStrip

Input / Getting Started

Couldn’t find Telerik.Charting.. so commented out in web.config.

RadMaskedText, RadNumericText, RadDateInput

Input / ClientAutoComplete

ie press f then tab, and it completes.

Just javascript on the onChange event.

Input / ClientErrorHandling

Javascript on the client. 

RadMaskedTextBox, RadNumericText, RadDateInput.

Input / HowToSpellCheck

didn’t work.. but cool functionality.

Input / HowToValidators

Just using classic asp validators.

Client Side API / Events

EventsWalkThrough

When hover over, it does some js.

JSON

WebService and JSON

sends a date to the webservice, then returns then date with an int of 123.

UI and Information Controls / Getting Started

RADFormDecorator (skin of Hay)

RADToolTipManager

FormDecorator (Forest)

ClientLogin

ClientSide

HowToImageMap

Images came sliding in.  They are actually tooltips, being animated within the tooltip.

ServerAJAXUpdate

tooltip  updating on ajax?

ServerSide

RadRotator / Getting Started

using an xml data source.  RadRotator… which uses XPath statements to get the correct data from the xml.

HowToDetailsTAble

HowToRSS

straight from an xmldatasource.

scrolls automatically.

AJAX / Getting Started

Bottom calendar is using Ajax.

ScriptManager, RadCalendar, RadAjaxLoadingPanel

AJAX Settings

Getting an assembly mismatch

Could not load file or assembly 'Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2008.2.826.35, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

I changed out the

<!--<add assembly="Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2008.2.826.35, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121FAE78165BA3D4"/>-->
        <add assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" />

and when I do show time it does an ajax call.

Uses Telerik AJAX Manager.

Creates stuff on the fly:

Client API

doing in js.

c# is passing a literal control back to the client.

Client API2

Dynamic Controls 1,2,3,4

user controls (ascx)

then progressivly running more in ajax

then IDynamicControl

ActiveSkill / Getting Started

Getting into it – although pass through authentication / db auth.. causing issues.  Made a user called DAVEXPLAPTOP\ASPNET 

May have been easier to use network service like above.

Setting up the database for membership:

Pointing the web.config to the correct database (ActiveSkill on sqlexpress)

Setting up the correct roles.

After successfully creating a user, then logging in.  I did it again and got:

So, moving on through the examples.!

RealEstate / Getting Started

RadWindowManager

Drag and drop.

Skins / Getting Started

Databinding / Getting Started 1

Database connection string was causing issues.. this worked for me:

<add name="NorthwindConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=DAVEXPLAPTOP\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=C:\NORTHWND.mdf; Database=northwind; Trusted_Connection=Yes"  providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Here the SQL is right in the aspx page in the SqlDataSource… ie select blah from Catgories.

Tidied up the database location:

<add name="NorthwindConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=DAVEXPLAPTOP\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=C:\Program Files\telerik\RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2010\App_Data\NORTHWND.mdf; Database=northwind; Trusted_Connection=Yes"  providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Databinding / Getting Started 2

ToDO!

Bug/Issue Trackers

Confluence / Jira issue

Fogbugz

Mocking:

balsamiq – integrates into confluence/jira/fogbugz

Screen Capture in WinXP - cropper

http://www.sourcegear.com/fortress/

An Application Lifecycle Management tool.

Version Control based on Vault.

Work Item Tracking

Admin Web Front End:

There is a repo front end

VS Integration (Work Item Tracking)

http://support.sourcegear.com/

How to Add a Solution into Source Control

Make sure VS knows about Fortress:

Right click solution file in VS and do add to

Easy to add in files and see diffs within VS.

Doing a change to a file which is in source control (page2).

Working With Tasks

Here I am checking in some code against a feature request.

Something which I find confusing is why are there 2 unresolved tasks in ‘Get bones of the site working’, and I click on them and it shows:

Here the status of the tasks are both Completed.

Overall I get what it is doing, and am about to use it for real in a project now.

Have heard a lot about this, so am trying it out:

can specify the dimensions of the page eg 1024.

link bar.

first try of mocking up.. ok so paid the license which was super easy.  And within 2 hours I’d sent off the mockups I wanted to my project collaborator.

Tools, Options.. Always show solution :-)

Am using publish web.. and automated build script so web.config is correct for dev and live.  Needs to be a Web Application, and not a Web Site.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ManagingMultipleConfigurationFileEnvironmentsWithPreBuildEvents.aspx

Differences between Web Sites and Web Applications http://www.codersbarn.com/post/2008/06/ASPNET-Web-Site-versus-Web-Application-Project.aspx

Also if doing more than one pre-build call need to do this:

call "$(ProjectDir)copyifnewer.bat" "$(ProjectDir)web.config.$(ConfigurationName)" "$(ProjectDir)web.config"
call "$(ProjectDir)copyifnewer.bat" "$(ProjectDir)LoggedIn\web.config.$(ConfigurationName)" "$(ProjectDir)LoggedIn\web.config"

Also I got an error in dev, where my debugging wasn’t working properly.  Had to tick debug info to full here.

to do – possibly abstract out the connection string settings (and anything else dev/live specific) into another file, so the actual Web.config can be changed by VS easily.

In Visual Basic the interface is slightly different however it is in there!

A very annoying error in VS2008, when trying to open VS2005/VS2005 Express web projects…

From: http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic20774-14-1.aspx

The solution was to right click on the solution file and click open with.  Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" and click to open.  The conversion wizard runs and the project will then open.