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  • Desktop WinForms

    Some Words on the new RadForm and RadRibbonForm

    Among all other new stuff that we introduced in the Q2 2009 release were also the revised RadForm and RadRibbonForm controls. Base on an entirely new approach, these two controls have been rewritten from scratch and expanded to support many features that the old versions did not provide. Moreover, we have been striving to address all performance and painting issues which were a major problem in the old versions and now we are proud to present what we have been doing the last months.   It turned out that customizing a standard Windows Form is not an easy task and once a...
    August 04, 2009
  • Desktop WPF

    Major changes in RadNumericUpDown for Silverlight and WPF

    With our Service Pack release coming soon, we introduce a complete change set for RadNumericUpDown both in Silverlight 3 and WPF that should resolve most of the little issues the Q2 version has. Even though we have introduced several minor breaking changes that are inevitable, we have taken a decision to include all these changes in our Service Pack release due to the increased demand for easy and simple input control. The credit for most of this fine-tuning should go to our great customers who constantly share their experience and are always willing to suggest new and innovative features.   What is new? One...
    July 31, 2009
  • Desktop WinForms

    Menu Merge (RadControls for WinForms)

    The long established traditions of the MDI interface makes menu merge indispensable for any WinForms Controls library. The MDI user interface is well known across the users and perhaps the most famous application that employed it for more than a decade is Microsoft Office (up to version 2003). Even though the new Ribbon Bar look snazzier to me, I am sure that the folks that are using Menus in MDI forms will appreciate this new feature.   Our MDI implementation covers two things – RadForm and RadMenu. Both are really independent and for this reason you can mix RadForms and standard forms as well...
  • Desktop WinForms

    New RSS feeds available for RadControls for WinForms

    As a company, it has always been our priority to be as transparent and up-front with the work we do for you as possible. This is why we have extended the available RSS feeds for all product lines, including for RadControls for WinForms. This will allow you to get the most recent news directly in your RSS reader, without the need to visit our site. In addition to the already available WinForms Support Feed, which provides you with information on new Code Library projects and new Knowledge Base articles on RadControls for WinForms, we add the following feeds on new help articles, new...
  • Desktop WPF

    WPF/Silverlight : RadChart - solving issues with the X axis labels.

    As you may already know, since the invention of the chart control there are some cornerstone cases when most of the implementations do not perform well. One of these is the arrangement of labels on the horizontal axis and especially when placed in a limited space(overlapping labels). This problem is clearly visible on the image below: Several ways to work around this problem have been developed and during the last months we put efforts to implement most of them. Our recent Q2.2009 release of RadChart for WPF/SL offers the following AxisX properties: LabelStep - when set to n, this property will make only...
    July 14, 2009