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  • Desktop WPF

    Getting Started with RadGridView for WPF - Webinar

    Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to present a webinar discussing the RadGridView for WPF.  The control was built from the ground-up to take advantage of the WPF platform and the .NET 3.5 framework.  RadGridView for WPF represents the next generation in flexible data presentation controls you need to build powerful line of business applications. In the webinar, I provided an overview of RadGridView to help you understand all of its capabilities. If you are interested in seeing what was discussed, I welcome you to visit Telerik TV to view the full webinar using the following...
    February 25, 2009 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Transpose or just rows as columns

    A common scenario when displaying tabular data is to flip the axis so your rows becomes columns and vice versa. This can be easily achieved when you know the shape of your data. For example imagine we have a Customer class with 3 properties:  Name, Age and JobCode. Let’s say that we have 5 customers in our data repository. If we want to select just the names we can do something like this: IList<Customer> customers = Customer.GetAll(); var names =     new         {             Customer1 = customers[0].Name,             Customer2 = customers[1].Name,             Customer3 = customers[2].Name,             Customer4 = customers[3].Name,             Customer5 = customers[4].Name         }; Imagine that another Customer is added and suddenly...
    February 16, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Working with a simple RadGauge for WPF

    Presenting data to users can be done in a variety of ways, but gauges offer a unique way to present data with elegance.  Gauges are easily recognized by most users since they see them on a daily basis.  Think about when you drove to work this morning, you probably looked at your car dashboard which may have looked similar to the picture below.  You knew your speed, fuel status and a number of other important metrics at a glance.  Well, the RadGauge for WPF gives you the ability to implement this same powerful concept in your applications In this post, I...
    February 13, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Binding RadGridView Controls Together using CellElements

    Our dear friends from Falafel Software (the creators of Telerik Trainer, among other great things) have posted a cool blog on Binding RadGridView Controls Together using CellElements. I would suggest it to any one using RadGridView to WinForms!   Thanks, Rachel!...
    February 11, 2009 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Setup a simple RadChart for WPF

    To get started working with any control, I find it useful to begin with a fresh project.  So below you will see that I have very simple XAML for my WPF application which adds a RadChart to the form.  In this post, I want to demonstrate the basic setup and binding of data to the RadChart. <Window x:Class="CreateABasicChart.Window1"      xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"      xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"      Title="Window1" Height="484" Width="750" xmlns:telerik="http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation">...
    February 10, 2009 2 min read