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    Creating A RadCartesianChart – Line Graph

    In this post, I will explore creating a line chart using the RadCartesianChart from the Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls.  You can Download Telerik Widows 8 Controls here. Figure 1 shows the chart we wish to build. This is a linear chart built with a RadCartesianChart. It represents revenue for the last six months of 2012, The best way to approach building a line chart (or any chart) is to start with the data you wish to display. In this case, we will use mock data representing Monthly Revenue earned from July through December 2012. The class that will hold our data...
    August 16, 2012
  • Desktop WPF

    Control Implicit Styles or “Where is My ComboBox.xaml” of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF

    It is gone… Merged in Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input.xaml. But you can still extract it, just read on. A while back ago we have released the styles for all our controls and themes of the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF suites as ResourceDictionary xaml files containing implicit styles. Currently they could be merged in the App.xaml files of your application and would apply globally. Of course there is more information available in the help sections: Implicit styles Silverlight Implicit styles WPF Some of the benefits are that the styles are no longer hidden in a dll’s resources but rather exposed in your application. And so it is easier to re-style some of the controls or...
  • Desktop

    Win8, WinRT, Metro, Oh My

    There has been a great deal of confusion about the differences between and among WinRT, Windows 8, Metro, Metro Applications and etc. [ Click on the image for full size ] While there is no reason to be absolutist or pedantic about these differences, if we are going to communicate effectively we need to understand the fundamental differences.  Thus, I offer the following simplifications to get us started… Windows 8 is an operating system, the successor to Windows 7.  There are numerous ways to create applications for Windows 8, and in fact there are now two classes of applications: Metro Style Applications...
  • Desktop WinForms

    Get some interactivity from your charts with RadChartView for WinForms

    I guess you are following us closely, so you are aware of the great RadChartView control introduced in Q2 2012 which aims to replace the old RadChart implementation. Today, I would like to introduce two cool RadChartView features and demonstrate how you can engage them. Namely, these features are Trackball and Selection. Trackball So, what is Trackball? Trackball displays a vertical line across the chart plot area and also displays little visual indicators (circles by default) at points where the trackball line crosses the visualization of a series object. For example when the trackball line crosses a line series line segment, a...
  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLflix Video: RadSlider for Silverlight and WPF

    It’s Tuesday and time for a XAMLflix video.  This week we’re looking at RadSlider.XAMLflix is produced by Telerik, and designed to assist you with getting the most out of the controls in Telerik’s XAML Suite for Silverlight and WPF.  We create a new video tutorial every Tuesday and Thursday and a new written tutorial every Wednesday. Some of you may know that Tuesday is usually Michael’s, and my videos are usually Thursday, but we thought we’d switch it up this week.  In today’s videos we introduce and then work with the RadSlider. Note that while the video was created with our Silverlight...