The Q3 2009 SP2 of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF has just been released and the files are available for download under the users' accounts - both trial and dev versions. Full Release notes can be read at: RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2009 SP2 Release Notes RadControls for WPF Q3 2009 SP2 Release Notes   You can also refer to our public RoadMaps for Q1 2010 about RadControls for Silverlight/WPF for more information about what is coming after this service pack release....

In Silverlight 4 you can use PrintDocument to print easily any UIElement: …    var doc = new PrintDocument();    doc.DocumentName = YourDocumentName;    doc.PrintPage += (s, e) =>    {         e.PageVisual = YouUIElement;    };    doc.Print(); … and I’ve made an extension method that can be used to print any UIElement on multiple pages: public static void Print(this UIElement source, string documentName) { ...

Our friends from SilverlightShow are running a Silverlight Eco Contest and are giving 3 passes for MIX10 in Las Vegas. Here’s an excerpt from their site: "Considering the alarming consequences of climate changes, and the actions taken to promote and carry out environmental-saving activities worldwide, we would like to give our share and show the power that web applications have to convince, persuade, and spread the word!"   Telerik is sponsoring the contest - you can win a "Telerik Premium Collection for .NET". Unfortunately I will not be able to submit my own application  - I have the honor of being a judge in the contest - so I will have the pleasure...

[Download the complete final project] We got a customer inquiry today about how to integrate the Telerik Silverlight Upload control within an ASP.NET MVC site. This is quite an interesting scenario, especially with the new Drag and Drop from the file system coming with our Silverlight 4 release in the mid-March. I was not sure what should be done to run the SL upload in the MVC site. This was my first time experience with ASP.NET MVC 2 and it turned out to be a very pleasant and easy one. These are the steps that need to be followed: 1. Create an ASP.NET MVC site: 2....

Earlier this week while working on another blog entry, I ran into a unique situation involving the RadGridView. Basically, what I am doing is retrieving user status data from Facebook using the Facebook Developer Toolkit. The data is returned in a list of objects based on the Facebook API schema. These objects are of type user_status and contain the following: uuid - long status_id - long time - long source - string message - string comment_count - int I basically wanted to take this list and bind it to the RadGridView showing only the message and the time for that message. This was pretty ...