Telerik blogs
  • Web

    The World of Model–View–ViewModel - through my eyes.

    The Big UI Problem Since the User Interface came on the scene of software development, it is constantly one of the biggest problems. It is really hard to design the architecture of the User Interfaces, User Interactions and deal with all the logic around, all the different states and behaviors. It is not an easy task also to separate the UI logic from the other layers of the architecture. On the other hand, even if you develop the whole application, you should start to think about how to automatically test the UI (unit tests, components tests, integration tests…), how to maintain it in a way...
  • Web

    5+ Ways to Reduce your .Xap Size

    Being Silverlight developer means that we are also kind of web developers. From this point of view, we also have to think about the web traffic that our applications generate. We need to reduce it as much as possible. So basically we need to reduce the size of the application's output - the .xap file. In this post I'll try to summarize the five ways to reduce the size of a xap that I've shared today with Sofia's Silverlight User Group. Understanding the Xap In order to reduce the size of a xap file, we should first be aware of its structure. Basically it can contain only 4 things: AppManifest.xaml -...
    September 15, 2010
  • Web

    Nesting Prism Regions using RadRibbonBar

    This post is update to my first post about "Decouple RadRibbonBar with Composite Silverlight (Prism)" (Read More). Nesting Regions in Prism could sound weird to someone, but the demand for this is growing. Check this forum post for more info. As a result to this post I've decided to update my previous example project. I've started by marking the one of the RibbonTabs as a Region as well, giving it a name...
    September 02, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadRibbonBar - Keyboard navigation using Key tips

    The Keyboard navigation major feature is now available with the Q2 ServicePack1 release. You can start using it immediately in WPF and Silverlight and as a result enhance your application’s Usability and Accessibility. Try it yourself. The API The API is pretty straight-forward. First you should enable Key tips, for the instance of a RadRibbonBar, with simple attached property like follows. <telerik:RadRibbonBar telerik:KeyTipService.IsKeyTipsEnabled="True"> Then you can attach key tip text to every component in the RadRibbonBar with simple line of code. <telerik:ApplicationMenu telerik:KeyTipService.AccessText="F">  Some components need alternative key tip activation text like the RibbonGroup. Foe example one could be used for the DialogLauncher button and one for the group itself, when the group...
  • Web

    The first Ribbon Bar for Silverlight, to fully comply with the Microsoft fluent UI guidelines.

    This week we will release new major feature for the RadRibbonBar – keyboard access. KeyTips provide keyboard access to every control in the Ribbon. They are activated by pressing the ALT key, following by the key for the button you want to activate. KeyTips are very well explained at the Microsoft’s fluent UI guidelines, you can read more about KeyTips on msdn… This feature is in the Required section from the Ribbon specification, but it’s nature and hard implementation details was preventing us from implementing it sooner. Currently this feature is the one with most votes in our PITS system, thus we considered it for...