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  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART III [example: Column Groups  A.K.A. Merged Column Headers]   Recently we have had a lots of requests for a feature referred as column groups / merged column headers / common headers for two or more columns - something like :   Here we have three ordinary columns ( L, W, H)  with regular column headers . There is also an additional common header – ‘Dimensions’ which spans over the three regular headers. Unfortunately RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF does not support this internally (yet).   The good news is that RadGridView is a flexible and easily extendable control so we can easily attach a new column grouping behavior....
    December 04, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    Standard resources in the edit dialog in Telerik Scheduler for Silverlight/WPF

    As many of you noticed Telerik Scheduler was released with a completely new look of the edit appointment dialog. Some of the things inside the dialog are just redesigned, however some of them are completely new like the categories,time markers and the importance buttons. Today I will give you more information about them:   Categories: There are some built-in categories in RadScheduler and in  its edit dialog. A category can be assigned to an appointment by choosing one from the dialog on through code behind like this: Then the category will appear in the appointment: and in the edit dialog:   You can remove a assigned category by...
    November 27, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    A brand new Timeline view for Teleriks Scheduler control for Silverlight/WPF

    Along with other main features like standard resources and resource grouping, the Q3 2009 release brought an additional view to the present ones (Day, Week and Month) – Timeline. Briefly said, it displays a certain number of consecutive time slots and like all other views, the Timeline view is configurable in almost the same way. Here is how it looks like by default:     … where each time slot is 1 day long (i.e. TimeSlotLength of the TimelineViewDefinition is equal to one day) and the date in each header is displayed in a “d-M-yyyy” format. Let’s tweak a bit some of the settings related...
    November 17, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    How to: Create custom editor with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF

    If you need a custom editor to edit a specific data, you can use one of the following approaches:   Use CellEditTemplate property of the GridViewColumn. Create a custom column by inheriting from GridViewBoundColumnBase.   As almost anything in our life both approaches have some advantages and disadvantages. Although it is quite easy to implement the first option, there are some significant disadvantages like not so usable with many RadGridView instances, and more important this bypasses the RadGridView validation and editing engine. For more information about this approach you can take a look at this online example.   In this blog post I’ll try to explain how to...
    November 12, 2009
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadControls for WinForms Q3 2009 - RadScheduler Resource Grouping

    Q3 marks the release of some fantastic new features in the RadControls for WinForms. I know many of you have been waiting for one feature in particular... resource grouping. Well, I'm happy to say, the wait is over, resource grouping is here! Today, I am going to take some time out to explain to you how it works.   Adding Resources Programmatically Creating and adding resources to the RadScheduler is quite simple. In fact, assigning resources to appointments is by no means a new feature of the RadScheduler. The following code creates and adds a resource to the RadScheduler: Resource ...
    November 06, 2009