Telerik blogs
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Put your ASP.NET menu on a healthy diet -- introducing the lightweight render mode for RadMenu

    Slowly but surely, we are rolling out our lightweight initiative to more controls. This time it's Telerik’s ASP.NET Menu. Skip after the break to learn what we've changed.
    October 31, 2013
  • Desktop WPF

    WPF / Silverlight: Integrating RadChart and RadContextMenu Controls

    One common request that we are receiving recently is how to integrate the RadChart and RadContextMenu controls so they play nicely together. A typical real-life scenario would probably require that each ChartItem should display different (context-specific) set of menu items. In order to address the increased interest in this functionality we decided to add a new integration example for the Q1 2010 release but for those of you that need something working right now, here is a quick overview of the required steps to add context-specific menu to Bar series items in RadChart (this can be applied to any series...
    February 08, 2010
  • Web

    Drop-Down Menu Button with Telerik ContextMenu for Silverlight

    Sometimes, when a button is clicked we want to display a drop-down menu with options. This is handy interface, usually present in toolbars, but sometimes - as standalone buttons, like the Save As button in the the VS2008 Save As dialog. Sometimes the drop-down buttons consist of two parts – action and menu, and are called split buttons. In this post I will demonstrate how to achieve the drop-down menu button part. If you need a split button, just add another button and keep track of what was the last clicked menu item. Note, that with Q3 2009 we will...
    September 07, 2009
  • Web

    RadioButton and CheckBox Menu Items with RadMenu for Silverlight

    RadMenu for Silverlight supports simple checkable items, but still does not support radio button items. This feature is scheduled for development and most probably will come with Q3 2009, but until then you have to code it by yourself. Fortunately, this is relatively easy with a proper ViewModel, that contains the radio-button logic: The CommandItem class contains the properties and the logic for a RadMenuItem. It implements INotifyPropertyChanged and its most important property is IsChecked: public bool IsChecked { get { return this.isChecked; } set ...
    June 19, 2009