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  • Desktop WPF

    WPF in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) Industries

    For many developers, it’s easy to get so caught up in our day-to-day coding that we lose sight of the bigger picture. At a time when there are seemingly endless platforms from which to choose, each with its own unique offering, it is important to recognize which platform is best suited for your particular application scenario. With that in mind, this post begins a series of articles focused on WPF development and the different industries and scenarios in which that rich, high-performance, desktop technology is used.
    May 27, 2021 13 min read
  • Desktop

    Using the Grid App Template in Windows 8

    Microsoft Visual Studio offers a number of templates for building Windows 8 applications. In most of my postings, we’ve been using the Blank application template, but the Grid App template is extremely powerful. Unfortunately, it is not obvious how to adapt it to your own data and it doesn’t come with an instruction manual.
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    How To: Merge assemblies into WPF application

    As you may know you cannot use ILMerge to merge assemblies with XAML (WPF application) however there is a little known trick you can use to achieve your goal in a bit different way.
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Add Outlook AutoComplete functionality to your WinForms apps in a few simple steps

    In Q2 2012 we introduced a cool brand new control in Telerik’s WinForms suite – RadAutoCompleteBox. This control allows end-users to easily fill-in text thanks to autocomplete functionality and tokens of text coming “out of the box”. This behavior enables you to easily simulate the  Outlook and Facebook autocomplete functionality available to users each time they send a new message and pick the recipients  in the ‘To:’ field of their outgoing message from a convenient pop-up list with suggestions. 
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    11 Awesome Features of RadPivotGrid for WinForms

    The beta version of RadPivotGrid for WinForms is out, stacked and packed with a bunch of useful features you shouldn’t miss. Although there is still some time to go for the official release, the range of functionality available in beta phase, can help you achieve many of your pivotal scenarios with ease and we encourage you to give it a try. Below follows a list of RadPivotGrid’s features you get “out of the box”: Advanced design-time Property Builder PivotFieldList Filtering Layouts Totals Position Aggregates Position ScreenTips Range Grouping Cell Formatting Printing Support Integration with RadChartView
    May 27, 2021 6 min read