Desktop: WinForms

The long established traditions of the MDI interface makes menu merge indispensable for any WinForms Controls library. The MDI user interface is well known across the users and perhaps the most famous application that employed it for more than a decade is Microsoft Office (up to version 2003). Even though the new Ribbon Bar look snazzier to me, I am sure that the folks that are using Menus in MDI forms will appreciate this new feature.   Our MDI implementation covers two things – RadForm and RadMenu. Both are really independent and for this reason you can mix RadForms and standard forms as well...

As a company, it has always been our priority to be as transparent and up-front with the work we do for you as possible. This is why we have extended the available RSS feeds for all product lines, including for RadControls for WinForms. This will allow you to get the most recent news directly in your RSS reader, without the need to visit our site. In addition to the already available WinForms Support Feed, which provides you with information on new Code Library projects and new Knowledge Base articles on RadControls for WinForms, we add the following feeds on new help articles, new...

We just finished working on the Q2 2009 release of RadControls for WinForms. One of the best things about releases is that we get to show off the cool new stuff that we managed to get done. One of my favorite features is the full support for binding to custom fields in RadScheduler. Yes, this means that you finally can have RadScheduler bound to that email field in your data source. And do you know what’s the best part? It’s fairly easy: 1. If you have not already done this, add your custom field to your data source. 2. You will need a custom...

Our friends from Falafel Software have posted some interesting tips in their blog on extending RadComboBox while used in RadGridView for WinForms.   Feel free to check it out here: Smarter ComboBoxes inside a Telerik WinForms RadGridView   Thanks, Rachel!...

LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. LINQ is great in improving the readability and maintainability of your code.   Our controls work flawlessly with LINQ and we plan to prepare a series of blog posts on utilizing LINQ when programming with RadControls for WinForms. Following last year’s Emulating Paging with RadGridView for WinForms and LINQ with 1 million records, now it is time to give you a quick overview...