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Desktop WPF
Styling Telerik Controls
I thought it might be interesting to do a quick rundown of the Visual Style Builder. This tool comes with your Telerik WinForms control suite and provides a quick and easy way to change the look of a control. The Visual Style Builder is located under the Telerik directory in your Start menu. It allows you to modify a variety of settings for a given control to build your own themes. For example, if you select the RadButton control under the File | LoadControl menu, you will see it displayed center screen. As you move your mouse cursor over the control...October 28, 2008 -
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Host Telerik’s WPF Gauges and Charts in RadGridView for WinForms
Did you have a chance to try the beta versions of Telerik’s WPF gauges and charts ? Yes? And you like them, but already have a big and complex WinForms project and you have no plans to upgrade it to the new amazing WPF technology soon? Do not worry; you can get the best of both worlds and use the WPF goodies in your WinForms application thanks to the ElementHost control that resides in the namespace System.Windows.Forms.Integration. You could find more info on this topic in the following MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745781.aspx Following this concept, I have prepared a WinForms application with Telerik’s WPF...October 24, 2008 -
Desktop WPF
Display data hierarchy in the RadGridView
Sometimes it can be valuable to display hierarchy data in a grid. It can allow users to quickly drill down into the data at the click of a button. Below you will see a sample database with just three tables. Notice that this is very elementary example, but it works well to demonstrate how easy it is to leverage hierarchy within the RadGridView control. I am using LINQToSQL to pull the data from the database. Below you will see the classes created after I did a drag and drop of the tables using Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2008. Now I can...October 24, 2008 -
Desktop WPF
WPF: Debugging Expression Blend Exceptions with Visual Studio
Although Expression Blend and Visual Studio can work on the same solution / project files, they remain two separate IDEs and it is not uncommon for certain functionality to work correctly in the Visual Studio design-time environment and throw an error in the Expression Blend one. The Blend error output does not always help much with identifying the reason for the erroneous behavior: This clearly does not give us enough information to track the problem down. Fortunately there is an easier way to detect the problem instead of wandering around the code in a manual “debugging” session – the Visual Studio...October 16, 2008 -
Desktop WPF
Storing User Docking preferences
Many times in an application you want your user to have the ability to set preferences. This extends to a variety of settings, but what about the interface itself? If you are using the DockingManager you can give the user the ability to modify the layout of existing DockPanels and store it for them. Why would you want to let the user change the layout? Every person is different and most people enjoy having the option of customizing an application. This can be as simple as having a tool window on the right of the screen instead of the...October 10, 2008
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