Users in the Telerik Reporting Forums have been clamoring for a Stand-Alone Report Designer for a long time now. I’ve been working with Telerik Reporting for the past few years, which means I have spent my share of time researching issues in the forum. I have seen several posts by users asking for a Report Designer that doesn’t require Visual Studio. With the 2012 Q1 release of Telerik Reporting it is finally here.

The Telerik Report Designer allows a non-developer/report designer to have a separate tool to start working with the Telerik reports. This will free your developers up to ...

The “Email Campaign” module of Sitefinity 4 is what you would use to create email campaigns, manage lists of subscribers, and test AB campaigns. If you haven’t used this module, you can get more information on the Sitefinity website by clicking this link:

http://www.sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/sitefinity-essentials-modules-working-with-email-campaigns.html

While this is a very useful module in Sitefinity 4 out of the box, I’m going to show you how you could add some additional functionality to this module. For the purposes of this Blog, let’s assume you would like to be able to export your Mailing Lists to a csv file. The way we will ...

In a previous blog I demonstrated how you can create custom profile fields and access them in code. When creating the custom profile field there is one common setting that seems to be missing from the properties of your new profile fields. That is a ‘read-only’ checkbox. While there is no checkbox available to make these read-only, it can be done. In fact, you have the ability to set your field to read-only differently in all the places this field shows up on your website (i.e. backend, frontend, creating and editing).

Here’s how you do it:

Assuming you have previously ...

In this Blog I’m going to talk about some of the settings that are available to you in the Sitefinity Administrator for controlling password strength requirements in Sitefinity 4.

When working with Sitefinity 4, you may have noticed the default password requirements for Sitefinty 4 are different than they were in previous versions. In addition, there are some settings in the Sitefinity Administrator that enable you easily set the password strength requirements to meet your business needs. These settings are found in the Advanced settings of the Sitefinity.

In Sitefinity 4.1 there are some new features for helping to manage the fields for your website users in the Administrator. There are also new page controls available in the “Users” section of the Page widgets that you can drop on your pages to collect and view the user data (see below). For this blog I will show you the steps for adding a custom field to your user profile data in case you need to store some additional data for each of the users in your site.

To start with this process, from the Sitefinity Administrator, choose "Administration" ...

In my last Blog, I provided some code to get the response data from a form and show it in a list box. I know at least one person had the question, "Where do I put this code?". That's actually a very good question and made me take a step back and think about website developers just getting started with Sitefinity 4.0. Sitefinity is quite powerful and using only the Sitefinity Administrator you can do many things. However, if you need to do custom coding that requires using the Sitefinity API, I'll provide detailed steps to show you how ...

If you've started working with Form's in Sitefinity 4.0, you probably already know that your response data is persisted for you in your Sitefinity database in a table the Sitefinity engine created for you automatically. Let's suppose you'd like to get access to that data in your code-behind to use it somewhere else in your website.

The first step in this process is to determine the form name and your form widget's underlying fieldname. For more information on setting the names of the columns or finding the table in your database where the form's response data is stored, you should ...

This blog will show you how to setup your Textboxes on a Sitefinity form with input validation. If you've been working with previous versions of Sitefinithy the first question you may have is "wait a minute, Sitefinity has built-in forms?". Yes, Sitefinity 4.0 includes a new Form Builder, which allows you to create form modules that can be shared in multiple pages of your website.  They are very simple to setup and once you have created a form, you just drop a form control on a page and point it to your form. In addition, Sitefinity will automatically persist ...

 

If you've added mapping functionality to your Silverlight application, plotted some points of interest on your map, but aren't quite satisfied with the format of the pop-up for your points, I'll show you a technique that will get you started on formatting those Tooltips to whatever your design requires.

If you are new to Telerik's RadMap component for Silverlight, I suggest you review this very informative post from the Telerik Forums to get your first map to display:

 

http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/map-create-basic-application-bing-maps.html

 

Assuming you have a Silverlight application that shows an empty map, let's start by creating a custom class ...

Have you ever been in the middle of large source file and you need to add a "DataTable" or something else, but you don't have the appropriate "using" directive at the top of your file? In VS.NET it is very simple to add the "using" directive with a few clicks saving us developers some valuable keystrokes.

In the shot below you see my simple class where I have added a new DataTable variable and the editor is warning me that it does not recognize the "DataTable" type.




If you position your cursor anywhere on the text "DataTable" and press the ...