Telerik Q1.2012 XAML Controls are here!  And one of the most interesting new pieces there is the Diagramming control/framework. It is a product of joint venture between Telerik and our awesome partner - Orbifold. RadDiagram brings lots of new and exiting possibilities to both WPF and Silverlight worlds. In this post I'll show off what RadDiagram is and how you can best use it for number of different applications. Let's first take a look and play with it. Control or a Framework? The Control. RadDiagram is very extensible and flexible Control (part of the Telerik.Windows.Controls.Diagrams assembly). It mimics the intrinsic ItemsControl and has two major types of children: RadDiagramShape - an...

It's Monday and we've just finished with the Q1 2012 release - meaning it is time for Q1 2012 Webinar Week! We're excited to kick this week off with What's New in XAML 2012, but before you settle down for our metric ton of webinars, read on to see what XAMLflix has for you for our brand new RadGanttView CTP for the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF! RadGanttView is used to display tasks and other time-based data in a readable and quickly digestable format, and even in the CPT version we've got a ton of great features to...

With Q1 2012 release the highly anticipated Telerik Report Designer has arrived - a desktop application for creating reports, utilizing the power of Telerik Reporting. The Telerik Report Designer features a simple ribbon interface and all the necessities for intuitive report creation like report items, wizards, explorers, all of them situated in a comfortable multi-document interface. This allows power users to create and edit ad-hoc reports on the fly.  Creating a report is simple and the output is saved as XML report definition (.trdx or Telerik Report Definition XML) in a proprietary XML format, which can be shared with other users. Your...

The standard Silverlight for Windows Phone ListBox, as many of you already now, can be easily tuned to use a different Items Panel from the standardized Stack Panel. This is a really very powerful feature that many of pointed out was missing in RadDataBoundListBox. Since the WrapPanel is another commonly used layout panel in the ListBox context, many of you asked for similar feature in RadDataBoundListBox provided that it further extends to supporting the powerful UI virtualization approach that we already use in our control. Some time ago Georgi Atanasov from my team gave a very thorough explanation of how to mimic a Wrap Layout...

This is the second in a series of blog posts on the new RadListView client-side databinding features. In the first post, we introduced you to the basics of HTML templates, binding expressions and the databinding model in RadListView. In this post, we will see how RadListView supports automatic (read codeless) databinding to web services and JSON feeds. For a quick reference, here is a brief list of the sections in this blog post: Web Service Types And Requirements How Web Service Binding Works RadListView DataService Settings Supported HTTP Methods And Default Parameters Binding To ASMX Web Services Binding To WCF Services Binding To OData Services Binding To Any General JSON Feed