It’s Wednesday, and thus time for a new XAMLflix Tutorial. XAMLflix Tutorials are searchable PDF files with all the contents and code of one of our video tutorials. This week we’re looking at RadTreeMap, and along with it, RadPivotMap. Both RadTreeMap and RadPivotMap are used to display hierarchical data; the former creates a visual tree while the latter is typically bound to flat data that it automatically places in groups. This tutorial will cover Getting Started With RadTreeMap, Getting Up To Speed with RadPivotMap, Using Colors to Visualize Data, In Getting Started With RadTreeMap, we dive directly into Visual Studio to add a RadTreeMap to...

The development of RadDiagram for Silverlight and WPF continues to move full speed ahead during the Q3 time-frame. After the Q2 release and the awesome series of features we delivered, it is now time to focus on the next best diagramming bits. Of course,we'll continue to refine the existing features, improve the flexibility and extensibility of the diagramming API, make the visuals even more rich and clear the path for more grandiose data visualizations and user interactions. However, the world continues heading towards a more colorful spectrum of form factors, platforms and technologies, so the Q3 release will be a transition towards the next big thing in diagramming. We'll keep you up...

INTRODUCTION Hi everyone and thanks for coming back for another episode of XAMLFlix. In case you haven’t heard, XAMLFlix is a video series devoted to getting you up to speed quickly with our Telerik controls for Silverlight and WPF. In this episode, we will take a look at RadNumericUpDown. So, without further delay, let’s get started! WHAT IS RadNUMERICUPDOWN? Telerik’s RadNumericUpDown control provides a rich user experience by allowing the developer to define various ValueFormats as well as additionally customize them to meet their customer’s business requirements. Let’s take a look at two videos that will get you up to speed quickly. Getting Started...

“Words cannot describe the feelings I have for the new Control Panel. I don't have to recall what version I downloaded last time, and what I have installed. This will save countless hours. Thank you Telerik! Home Run!!!” Tommy Wells, via the Telerik Support System The new Telerik Control Panel allows you to quickly install and update all of your Developer Tools from a single application. It was revealed with Telerik’s Q2 DevTools release, and if you haven’t tried it yet, now is the time. The Control Panel will guide you through the update process of the products you already have...

Mocking .net framework members (a.k.a. mscorlib) is always a daunting task. It’s the breed of static and final methods and full of surprises. Technically intercepting mscorlib members is completely different from other class libraries. This is the reason it is dealt differently. Generally, I prefer writing a wrapper around an mscorlib member (Ex. File.Delete(“abc.txt”)) and expose it via interface but that is not always an easy task if you already have years old codebase. While mocking mscorlib members first thing that comes to people’s mind is DateTime.Now. If you Google through, you will find tons of example dealing with just that....