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  • Desktop WPF

    Multiple Resources, Resource Grouping and TimeLineView in Telerik Scheduler for SL/WPF

    Once again we kept our promise and we are happy to introduce to you the Resource Grouping of Telerik Scheduler for Silverlight and WPF - the most requested feature for this control.   Multiple Resources, Resource Grouping,new design of Edit Appointment dialog and TimeLineView are the new features coming with Beta1 release due in the second half of this month.   Here are a few screenshots on the upcoming new features:     Stay tuned to see what else we have prepared for you in the upcoming Beta release!
    September 10, 2009
  • Desktop

    Per-request object scope vs shared one

    Quite some people have been wondering – why does the Telerik OpenAccess ORM team suggest using a separate object scope per every HttpRequest in a web scenario or on a thread level in desktop apps. Doesn’t this lead to many set-backs? What happens with change-tracking, optimizing the DAL using cache, synchronization.. This post will be dedicated to explaining why the per-request approach is not only the better, but the obligatory one in most of the cases. Usually data-modifications are transaction-bound in 99% of the cases. When the scenario does not allow that e.g. we need several requests to do...
    September 01, 2009
  • Desktop WinForms

    Multi-Item Drag and Drop with the RadListBox for WinForms

    Earlier this week, I ran across a forum post asking about how one would go about creating multiple RadListBoxes that supported multi-item drag and drop. This sounded like a fun challenge, so I decided to take it on. Referencing an earlier forum post that described single-item drag and drop, I came up with the following solution. Calling DoDragDrop() immediately changes the mouse pointer and readies the RadListBox for the drag-and-drop operation. Originally, I had tried calling this function in the MouseDown event, but this lead to unpredictable clunky behavior due to the fact that DoDragDrop() was getting called before I had the chance to ...
    August 27, 2009
  • Desktop WinForms

    Full keyboard navigation coming in RadMenu for WinForms

    Perhaps nobody uses every bit of keyboard navigation when it comes to menus. I bet that there aren’t many of you who use F10 to activate the menu. You nevertheless expect our RadMenu to support keyboard navigation out of the box for the very few of your clients who are using the full set of navigation commands. Full keyboard support will be available in the next internal build so that you folks can give it a go: you will get accelerators, mnemonics, F10, and of course, the arrows and enter/escape keys support. The best part is that all commands will be internally...
    August 20, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    WPF / Silverlight: RadChart with ChartLegend as a ToolTip

    Every now and then we receive requests / inquiries which wordings may vary, but basically all come down to the same thing – my chart space is limited, how to optimize the content of the ChartArea so my data does not look so squashed? One possible solution that works in some scenarios is to hide the legend altogether. Today we will propose another option for those of you who are looking for a less “radical” remedy – display the ChartLegend as a ToolTip on demand. Actually, this is quite easy to achieve with the ToolTipService class provided by WPF /...
    August 20, 2009