Desktop: WinForms

The fast approaching Microsoft’s much-anticipated launch of Windows 8 caused quite a stir in creating Modern UI style applications these days. That’s why we decided to present you Bookshelf - our new demo app created with RadControls for Winforms. This is a Modern UI style application coming with full touch support using the irreplaceable Windows Forms technology. Please welcome the Bookshelf demo application: The application downloads all the book details' data utilizing an Ebay web service and then displays all titles as tiles sorted in different categories with the help of RadPanorama. All screens have touch scrolling functionality that comes out of...

I guess you are following us closely, so you are aware of the great RadChartView control introduced in Q2 2012 which aims to replace the old RadChart implementation. Today, I would like to introduce two cool RadChartView features and demonstrate how you can engage them. Namely, these features are Trackball and Selection. Trackball So, what is Trackball? Trackball displays a vertical line across the chart plot area and also displays little visual indicators (circles by default) at points where the trackball line crosses the visualization of a series object. For example when the trackball line crosses a line series line segment, a...

We keep a close track of the latest trends and we know how popular HTML5 and CSS are these days. That is why while implementing our new theme engine, which we presented in our previous blog, we added a small, but powerful styling feature  and in this blog we want to tell you more about it.   Until now there were two ways to create new themes for RadControls. The first one is to use the Visual Style Builder tool (http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/tools.aspx) and to create or modify an existing theme. The other way is a bit tricky as you should edit an XML...

As Q2 is just around the corner we would like to give you a glimpse of the newest member of our suite – RadChartView. The new chart control comes to address some of the limitations and deficiencies that we have identified in the RadChart implementation over the years - it allows you to visualize interactive, rich, animated charts and enables the end users to analyze complex data. RadChartView will be shipped with a set of pre-defined palettes and what is more, you will be able to edit the style in Visual Style Builder which will enable you to achieve endless custom...

Today is Wednesday, and that means another XAMLFlix tutorial – tutorials based on the XAMLFlix video series. Today’s ListBox Tutorial shows you how to get started with the control, set up complex list box items, search and select. RadListBox  Tutorial Video Please feel free to share your comments and feedback. We’d especially love to hear which controls you’d like to see covered next. Wrap-Up & Share Your Thoughts Hopefully you’ve seen here just how quickly and easily you can add RadListBox in your next line-of-business application. And as a reminder, this is only one of controls offered in the Silverlight/WPF suite. So, feel free to...