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  • Desktop WinForms

    Building Advanced Layouts With RadSplitContainer

    How it started One of the major disadvantages of the old docking framework was the unintuitive layout mechanism. Operations like resize, re-dock transitions, dock position change were re-setting entire layout scene and all user-defined sizes were lost. Having recognized this drawback and knowing that a prerequisite for a good docking framework is a fine-grained layout system, we put solid efforts in designing and implementing a completely new flexible and powerful, yet simple to understand and easy to use, layout mechanism. Brief Model Overview The design...
    August 05, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    Animating the RadWindow control for Silverlight and WPF.

    We all know that animations are making our applications look more slick. As Silverlight and WPF are platforms that have great support for animations, we want our Silverlight and WPF applications to be more animated and look better.     Today I will show you how to add animations support to the Telerik RadWindow control using one of the most powerful approaches in WPF and Silverlight for extending the functionality of existing components – the attached behavior. We will create two attached properties that take care to run the animations when needed. The good thing is that you can use this approach for...
  • Desktop WinForms

    Some Words on the new RadForm and RadRibbonForm

    Among all other new stuff that we introduced in the Q2 2009 release were also the revised RadForm and RadRibbonForm controls. Base on an entirely new approach, these two controls have been rewritten from scratch and expanded to support many features that the old versions did not provide. Moreover, we have been striving to address all performance and painting issues which were a major problem in the old versions and now we are proud to present what we have been doing the last months.   It turned out that customizing a standard Windows Form is not an easy task and once a...
    August 04, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    Major changes in RadNumericUpDown for Silverlight and WPF

    With our Service Pack release coming soon, we introduce a complete change set for RadNumericUpDown both in Silverlight 3 and WPF that should resolve most of the little issues the Q2 version has. Even though we have introduced several minor breaking changes that are inevitable, we have taken a decision to include all these changes in our Service Pack release due to the increased demand for easy and simple input control. The credit for most of this fine-tuning should go to our great customers who constantly share their experience and are always willing to suggest new and innovative features.   What is new? One...
    July 31, 2009
  • Desktop WinForms

    Menu Merge (RadControls for 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...