RadControls for Silverlight

This help topic will make you familiar with the most important properties, settings and elements of the RadTimeline control:

ItemsSource - gets or sets the data source used to generate the content of the timeline control. Elements can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML - see the list of the supported data sources bellow.

Supported Data Sources

You can bind RadTimeline to a data source that implements one of the following interfaces:

• IEnumerable - supports simple iteration of a collection. See the MSDN article for more on IEnumerable.
• ICollection - extends IEnumerable and supports size, enumerator, and synchronization methods for collections.
• IList - extends ICollection and is the base class for lists.

Change Notification Support

RadTimeline also provides full support for change notifications - changes in data sources that implement the INotifyCollectionChanged, as well as INotifyPropertyChanged, are properly tracked and reflected by the UI.

Some of the implementations of these interfaces include:

• Array
• ArrayList
• CollectionBase objects
• DataTable
• Generic Lists
• ObservableCollection

StartPath

- sets the name of the property from the underlying datasource, which will determine the start time for the data.

DurationPath

- sets the name of the property from the underlying datasource, which will determine the end time for the data.

VisiblePeriodStart and VisiblePeriodEnd

- set the names of the properties from the underlying datasource, which will determine the visible start and end time for the data.

PeriodStart and PeriodEnd

– these properties determine the start and end time period in the Timeline control.

Intervals

Currently the supported intervals are:

· Century;

· Decade;

· Year;

· Quarter;

· Month;

· Week;

· Day;

· Hour;

· Minute;

· Second;

· Millisecond;

A sample Intervals section may look like this:

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<telerik:RadTimeline.Intervals>
      <telerik:CenturyInterval />
      <telerik:DecadeInterval />
      <telerik:YearInterval />
      <telerik:MonthInterval/>
 </telerik:RadTimeline.Intervals>

IntervalSpans -this property can be used to group the given Interval Items Together. For example setting:

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<telerik:RadTimeline.Intervals>
   <telerik:YearInterval IntervalSpans="10"/>
</telerik:RadTimeline.Intervals>

will make the years in groups with 10 each. You can also set more than one IntervalSpan simultaneously by separating them with comma:

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<telerik:RadTimeline.Intervals>
   <telerik:YearInterval IntervalSpans="1,5" />
   <telerik:MonthInterval IntervalSpans="1,6" />
</telerik:RadTimeline.Intervals>