We received a question today in regards to a binding issue with RadGridView, or rather an issue with an Image in a custom cell template that the customer was trying to bind to a custom value.  They had the basic setup right: <DataTemplate>    <Image Source="{Binding ImageData}" /> </DataTemplate> But something wasn't quite working right.  After doing a little digging, we found that they weren't sending a URI to the Image but rather a byte array.  Unfortunately, the Image control in Silverlight doesn't quite know how to pick up on this so you need to convince it- with a converter. With a little bit of coding...

There is about a month left to the major Q3 release and the free Web Automation Framework has been steadily evolving. We have just released an important update I highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in the easy test automation for both ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight based applications with or without RadControls on the board. The list of release notes is quite long including updates to all the components – the WebAii core framework, the product installer, WebAii RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight control wrappers. There are significant improvements especially in the Silverlight automation. Here I’d like ...

For those of you who have missed the live webinar last week a recording is now available on Telerik TV. There are plenty of tips how to optimize your ASP.NET AJAX applications and especially those with RadGrid....

The Silverlight team decided to remove the ScrollBar control that used to be part of CoverFlow's control template. One of the reasons behind this decision is the easiness by which you can now, using Silverlight 3 element binding, create your own navigation. To learn more about all changes introduced by the beta version check my previous blog post here. This article explains in details how to create your own navigation using a range control, e.g. one that inherits from the RangeBase class. The first thing we need to do is to declare a CoverFlow control with some items in a straight-forward...

PART II [example: Conditional formatting of cells in RadGridView for WPF and Silverlight]   Lets say we have a list of products and we need to mark higher prices (>15.00)  with a red color. Something like :     First lets try it with RadGridView for WPF : We have to create a small IValueConverter. It will take care to convert the value of the price to the appropriate color: 1: public class PriceToColorConverter : IValueConverter 2: { 3: public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo...