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  • Desktop WPF

    Setting up the RadScheduleView

    RadControls for WPF, 2011.Q1 The attached project will be generated in this blog and will be used in future: DOWNLOAD: RadScheduleView_StartUp.zip This is probably the first post of a series that will guide you through RadScheduleView styling. We will try to use Blend as much as possible for the styling and designing part and VisualStudio 2010 for some of the code that we will need. Setting the References RadScheduleView requires the following references: Telerik.Windows.Controls Telerik.Windows.Data Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation Telerik.Windows.Controls.ScheduleView Adding the RadScheduleView in the Design Surface In the MainWindow select the “[grid]” element, find the RadScheduleView in the toolbox and double-click it: Probably the view now does not look...
    March 24, 2011
  • Desktop WPF

    RadTimeBar - A Brand New Member In The Telerik WPF/Silverlight Data Visualization Family

    Hello everyone! Q1 2011 has just been released and with it comes for the first time the RadTimeBar. Time Bar is a time bound DataVisualization control whose main purpose is to allow lightweight scrolling, navigation, and selection through large periods of time. To ease visualization the timebar can divide the displayed timespan in predefined periods like years, quarters, months, weeks, days, etc. While showing periods of time divided in weeks can be fun, it becomes really useful when combined with another great product that allows quick data visualization – the RadSparklines.  In addition to visualizing data, the RadTimeBar control allows you...
  • Desktop WPF

    New control for WPF and Silverlight from Telerik - RadDataForm

    In the context of our 30th release I am happy to share even more good news with you. With the official Q1 2011 release we have enriched the developer toolbox with the new RadDataForm.In the tradition of our existing data-aware controls such as RadGridVIew, RadDataForm deals with data in easy and intuitive  way. It provides complete CRUD support over an object or a collection of objects taking care of adding, editing, deleting and navigation trough collections. We had the RadGridView to take care of tabular views and now we have RadDataForm to take care of scenarios where form layout is more...
    March 17, 2011
  • Desktop WinForms

    Save Development Time with the Theme Viewer for RadControls for WinForms

    With the number of the themes in our suite constantly increasing (two more are coming in Q1 2011) it will surely take some time to review all of them for the different controls. This may sound like a simple problem, however the plot thickens when you are creating a new theme and you would like to know whether your forms look properly with your custom theme, and whether you are not missing an unstyled element here and there. As a result, in Q1 2011 we will introduce a new tool that solve these issues for you, and will save you time...
  • Desktop WPF

    TileView with DataPager

      With this post I’ll show you how to create a simple catalog like functionality for your application using RadTileView and RadDataPager.  We will create a catalog with 10 000 RadTileViewItems distributed in 100 pages and each page will have UI Virtualization. At the end this sample application will look like this: Demo We’ll start with a tileview, a datapager <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">     <Grid.RowDefinitions>         <RowDefinition />         <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />     </Grid.RowDefinitions>       <telerik:RadTileView x:Name="myTileView" />     <telerik:RadDataPager Grid.Row="1" /> </Grid> … and a simple business item...
    March 08, 2011