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  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    (Re)Mixed Hierarchy Mode in RadGridView for WinForms

    In addition to the fact that our next release focuses mostly on our accessibility and automated testing as described in this blog post, in our upcoming version we will include many bug fixes in all RadControls for WinForms, including a highly optimized version of RadTreeView. In this article however, we want to present a new interesting feature in RadGridView that you will surely find useful. A customer of ours requested a mixed hierarchy mode where he wanted to use a self-reference hierarchy AND the classic hierarchy mode together. The scenario that he described used a file explorer where the main level...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    RadChart for Silverlight/WPF Empty Values support

    The Q1 2011 version of the Chart control will include code to support empty/null values. There are many scenarios, in which the property of an object, or a collection of objects, to which the Chart is data bound, is null. The following code example demonstrates one such case: The null values above are hard-coded, however they convey the general idea of null values being returned by the data layer, to which the Chart is data bound. Internally, there are three ways in which these null values can be handled. This is specified by a property in the control, for the series...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Put Some Magic into Your Applications by Using RadWizard for WinForms

    As the next release of the Telerik Winforms controls is coming close, we would like to uncover some details regarding a new control to be released – RadWizard. The wizard control will help you to break a complex process into separate steps and provide your users with the opportunity to guide the process and make decisions – just like the well-known installation wizards. RadWizard supports both Wizard97 and Wizard Aero specifications. The control provides the developers with predesigned Welcome, Completion and Internal pages. Here is an example of the default look of a Welcome page: The design time capabilities of the RadWizard control...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read