You can use design time in Visual Studio 2005 to populate your instance of Telerik RadPanelBar with data from declarative data sources.
When the data source is configured, the DataSourceID, DataTextField, DataNavigateUrlField, and DataValueField property drop-downs are automatically populated. You can select the ID of the newly configured data source from the DataSourceID drop-down. (The drop-down also allows you to generate a new data source.)
The same functionality is available through the Telerik RadPanelBar"Choose Data Source" Smart Tag:

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