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  • Desktop WPF

    RadChart for Silverlight/WPF: Multiple Y axes support

    The secondary axes feature has been one of the most frequently requested over the time by our customers and also one of the major new development tasks that found place in our Q3.2009 schedule. Now I’m glad to announce that the wait is near its end. Our development team did their best to not only make it happen but to make it happen in time for the Q3.2009 beta 2 release(later this week). Thus, the most enthusiastic amongst you, will have the chance to grab this early release and play around with this new stuff. Let us have a brief...
    October 13, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Making a Step chart in RadChart for Silverlight and WPF

    So a customer emailed into our office yesterday asking about whether RadChart for Silverlight supported a Step chart type.  Well, while we do have a boatload of chart types already, Step is currently not one of them.  But a Step chart is really just a Line chart with a bit of extra work, right?  With the help of our chart wizard Manol, we were able to show that the LineSeriesDefinition could, in fact, replicate a Step chart.  But that was with setting all points manually and took a bit of thinking to make sure all the steps looked right.  So...
    October 02, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Sorting, Filtering, Grouping and Aggregating on all CPU cores using RadGridView for WPF and PLINQ

    As some of you may already know the Q2 release of RadGridView for WPF ships with a brand new “data engine” entirely based on LINQ. This means that all data operations including sorting, filtering, grouping, aggregating and paging will be pushed down to the IQueryProvider when RadGridView is bound to an IQueryable. For example if you are using LinqToSql, LinqToEntities or OpenAccess ORM all gird operations are executed on the SQL server using the magic of LINQ providers. Staying on the cutting edge I decide to try out PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and enable RadGridView to execute its data operations on all available CPU cores. PLINQ...
    September 23, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    RadChart for SL/WPF: Data grouping and aggregation

    Howdy folks! The RadControls for XAML Q3 Beta1 is out and it features an updated version of the RadChart control. We receive dozens of feature requests every day and one of the more substantial ones is the ability to analyze data with RadChart. The feature I will describe today is a great step in that direction. I’m talking of course about data grouping and aggregation.   Just like grouping and aggregate functions are one of the major features of our GridView control they can be used with the charts as well (if you have the beta). Basically the feature allows you to group business...
    September 18, 2009 3 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Windows 7 Theme for RadControls

    My guess is you have probably tested Windows 7. I will even go further and assume you liked how it looks and feels. Well … we like it too, even more we decided to bring the Windows 7 stunning visuals to RadControls for Silverlight and WPF.   I give you the first sneak peek screenshot of Windows 7 Theme:   Windows 7 Theme will let you perfectly blend your applications with the best looking Windows to date. The theme has already been tested in our new ? product and is designed to handle a wide array of complex business cases.   Windows 7 Theme will be...
    September 15, 2009 1 min read