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  • Desktop WinForms

    What is lacking in your WinForms app?

    Today we had to help a customer of ours, who was building a nice looking and very professional LOB application. He was looking for a control that would display the status of a process that he could incorporate in his app. The reply was simple, although not so obvious - RadStatusStrip. The status strip is a good example of a very simple piece of UI that does not seems to be of a high importance, but if we take a closer look at the so called LOB apps, we’ll see that it is irreplaceable part of them. A nice-looking and...
    September 04, 2008
  • Desktop WPF

    RadChart for WPF - Redesigned

    Some time ago when we announced our WPF charting effort a we received some feedback about the design of the control. At such an early stage of the control's development we were more interested in presenting the technical merits of the component rather than flashing some eye candy to please our customers. Well, development is moving on smoothly and now is the time to finally show some eye candy - and boy, don't I just love eye candy! :) The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words so I'm posting some preliminary designs for the "Ice" theme our designers...
    September 04, 2008
  • Desktop WinForms

    Emulating Paging with RadGridView for WinForms and LINQ with 1 million records

    Our customers who use the Telerik ASP.NET line of controls are used to having paging in their grids. This approach, however, is seldom used for WinForms applications, although there are cases when paging in WinForms grids is needed as well, especially when there are million records in the database (literally). You may have seen the blog post by Vladimir Enchev about implementing paging with RadGridView for WPF (if you have not, this is the right time to do so :)). A couple of days ago Mr. Enchev came by and said "You know guys, you could do the same thing with your WinForms...
    September 02, 2008
  • Desktop WPF

    Shaders in WPF? Do you find them useful?

    One of the most exciting things about the new .NET3.5 SP1 is definitely the ability to use Shaders (Pixel Shaders only). As a beginner in that area, I am actively searching for information in blog posts, DirectX documentation, etc. Interestingly enough, a lot of people are keen on the idea of using those, but demos and even hints on possible applications are hard to find. There are a couple of "default" examples, a ShaderPad I find pretty useful, but that's it, no advanced examples what-so-ever. Additionally, I found a couple of cool examples (like those posted on Addam Kinney's blog), but those...
    September 02, 2008
  • Desktop WPF

    RadGridView for WPF performance compared to Microsoft DataGrid

    Today I saw this blog post and I couldn't resist to test RadGridView for WPF using the same data :) Looks like by default our grid will sort approximately 10 times faster - no need to build your own custom comparers. Enjoy! [Download]...
    August 29, 2008