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  • Desktop WPF

    Exploring the RadSparklines performance in WPF/Silverlight

    As we know, the RadSparklines are characterized by their small memory footprint, cleaner XAML and simple but powerful rendering. When looking at the sparkline controls in the context of a charting tool one has to note that they are much more simplified. They lack many of the visual elements, such as Axis lines, gridlines or striplines. This makes them much faster when rendered and very suitable when used in high data-intensity scenarios. One such scenario may be when using different types of sparklines bound to a ViewModel/class, which passes hundreds or even thousands of data points to the controls.   Since the RadSparklines...
    December 06, 2010
  • Desktop

    Facebook Client for Your Desktop

    Back at the PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, Brian Goldfarb showed off the “Microsoft Silverlight Client for Facebook Beta”. It was released by Microsoft in early 2010 and had millions of downloads for both Windows and the Mac. Over the past few months, the Facebook app has been further developed by Telerik and is now available as the first official version under its new name: Telerik f!acedeck. Telerik has taken over the application from Microsoft and will continue its further development and support as a free application for everyone to enjoy. Telerik f!acedeck delivers a superior experience to Facebook users and offers unique features: such as drag-and-drop from the...
    December 03, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    Q3 2010 Release Videos for RadControls for WinForms

    A few weeks ago, the Q3 2010 release made its official appearance. This release marked the addition of various new features across all Telerik products. As with every release, we try our hardest to create video tutorials corresponding to each new product feature. In these videos we generally write the code to some sort of example application. Often we receive requests for this code, so I thought I would save you the trouble of asking and post the code to the RadControls for WinForms videos here in this blog entry. Here is a list of all videos related to RadControls ...
    November 29, 2010
  • Desktop WPF

    Say hello to the RadBulletGraph for Silverlight/WPF!

    Hello everybody! I am Yavor Ivanov and I work in the DataVisualization team here at Telerik.  As Vladimir mentioned earlier in his blog post, the Q3 release focuses on dashboards and line of business applications and today I am happy to announce another result of this focus: the RadBulletGraph!     The Bullet Graph is created by Stephen Few and it is designed especially for dashboards. This little wonder is very data intensive and easy to read at the same time. In just one Bullet graph you can demonstrate both what your projected and your accomplished goals for a period are, specify qualitative...
    November 26, 2010
  • Desktop WPF

    How to create Custom Appointments and Custom Appointment Dialog in Telerik ScheduleView

    A common scenario when using the ScheduleView control is to have custom appointments with additional properties that are not by default included in the standard Appointment class. In these cases simply extending the Appointment class is not enough, because we have some more requirements – we want our custom properties to support cancelation of editing (like the standard one does), we want to allow the user to edit the custom properties using the Appointment edit dialog and eventually to render values of the custom properties in the AppointmentItem or/and its ToolTip. In this article we will go through the following steps: Create a custom appointment...
    November 25, 2010