Customize the style of Panelbar

[ankit]

Hi everyone,

You already sent me sample for how to change style for RadExpander. That works fine.

Can you please provide one sample of changing style of PanelBar ?

When I have multi level and if I populate lots of data and mouse hover, it gives effect and looks terrible in my case. If looks fine otherwise.

I want to remove that effect and want to add other color in place of white.

Thanks in advance.

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hi ankit,

This is not possible right now, because there is an issue with the PanelBar. We will fix it with the next release of RadPanelBar - with our Q3 release at the begining of November. Please let us know if you have any other problems.

Greetings,
Valentin.Stoychev
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[ankit]

Is it available yet, or not ??

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hello ankit,

Yes - the fix is now available. Please download the latest version of the controls.

Regards,
Valentin.Stoychev
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[Sandeep]

Hi Valentin,
I have downloaded the Q3 controls. I wanted to change the style of RadPanelBar and RadPanelBarItem.
However, in Expression Blend2(with Sp1), I am getting an error for both.
For PanelBar, if I try dragging it on  the blend artboard the error is
"Cannot create an instance of RadPanelBar"
For PanelBarItem, I am able to drag it on the blend artboard, but when I try to edit its template by:  Right click-> Edit Control Parts(Template)-> Edit a Copy, I get a Null Reference Exception( Object reference not set to an instance of an object).

Can you please share the xaml of the PanelBar and PanelBarItem template. I need to change the style of these controls.

Regards,
Sandeep

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hello Sandeep,

Unfortunately Blend is still not ready for custom Silverlight controls. Please find attached a zip file containing all the controls themes.

Let us know if you need more help creating your theme for RadPanelBar.

Kind regards,
Valentin.Stoychev
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[Sandeep]

Hi Valentin,
Thanks for your help.
However, I could not uses these themes becuase as soon as I replace my Rc1 Telerik dlls with Q3 dlls, my project does not compile. I do not know if other have this problem or not.
In my existing project I replaced the dlls Telerik.Windows.Control and Telerik.Windows.Control.Navigation
from the Rc1 release to Q3 dlls.
Now my project does not compile. I get the following error:
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Error 5 The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MS.MarkupCompiler.ValidationPass.ValidateXaml(String fileName, Assembly[] assemblies, Assembly callingAssembly, TaskLoggingHelper log, Boolean shouldThrow)
   at Microsoft.Silverlight.Build.Tasks.ValidateXaml.XamlValidator.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Silverlight.Build.Tasks.ValidateXaml.XamlValidator.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Silverlight.Build.Tasks.ValidateXaml.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(EngineProxy engineProxy, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, ITask task, Boolean& taskResult) Xcel.Framework.RIA.ActivityManagement.CommonUI
**************************************
Can you please help?
Regards,
Sandeep

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hello Sandeep,

from the error extract below we can't see what is the problem. Are you able to bulid other applications agains Silverlight 2RTW version.

Can you please send us the project where we can see the problem. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Valentin.Stoychev
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[Sandeep]

Hi Valentin,
Thanks for your immediate reply.
That project is getting building now. Do not know what was the issue :(
I'll try using the styles that you posted.

Thanks,
Sandeep