Evaluate r.a.d.controls for WinForms and go to Hawaii. Not bad?
by Hristo Kosev
November 27, 2006
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Desktop WPF
Putting Instructional Prompts in Controls
When asking the user to provide input in any application it can help to give them guidance on what you are expecting. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this, but one in particular seems to be very effective. If you have ever used Microsoft PowerPoint you will undoubtedly have seen a screen similar to the graphic below. The instructional prompt effectively conveys to the user where to type a title and subtitle for the slide. Better yet, the user can ignore these prompts and proceed with other activities in the application. Live Search Map provides another example of...December 28, 2008 -
Desktop WPF
WPF/ Silverlight: RadGauge Layout Composition
Today I would like to highlight one of the newest controls added to the WPF / Silverlight control suites in November – the RadGauge control. RadGauge combines its rich assortment of radial, linear and numeric gauge types with very flexible layout composition abilities thus allowing you to attain a new level of data visualization quickly and easily. Let us discuss the basics of the layout composition and how it is implemented in the gauge control. There are three levels of controls that participate in the layout: RadGauge LinearGauge / RadialGauge LinearScale / RadialScale / NumericScale RadGauge is the top level class but as far as the control...December 19, 2008 -
Desktop WPF
Get Organized with the RadPanelBar
If you have ever used Microsoft Outlook or Windows Explorer, you have seen the use of panels to organize content. See Outlook 2007 screenshot below: This is a very useful method of organizing information that you want available to the user all the time. Panels can house different functionality like managing options, navigating the application or displaying important details. You can incorporate this same functionality in your applications using the RadPanelBar. To get started, I thought it might be nice to create a Outlook like PanelBar with a calendar inside. My goal is not to recreate what Outlook has done, but...December 19, 2008 -
Desktop WinForms
RadMessageBox for WinForms
Hello folks. I am sure all of us are enjoying with Telerik’s good looking and reach theming mechanism for WinForms. But in every application there is a need for user interaction and very often it uses some type of question or message to guide the user what he is supposed to do. I am sure that you have used the default WinForms MessageBox class and its Show method The standard appearance of this message box, however, does not fit nicely in the slick design of an application built with RadControls for WinForms, and I know how boring it is to implement your own...December 11, 2008 -
Desktop WPF
Custom format strings and DateTime support in RadChart for WPF
One of the most common requests we got after the Q3 2008 release was to improve our label customization. Well I believe many of you will be pleasantly surprised to learn that we will most certainly deliver on those expectations for the Q3 SP1 release and then some! This news is really twofold. The first part is the support for custom format strings in our axis and series items labels. What this means is that with the SP1 release of RadChart for WPF you will be able to apply all .NET supported standard numeric format strings. The easiest way to enable...December 04, 2008
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