This is part two of my Attaching a ContextMenu on TreeView blog post. I will show another approach for adding context menu on a treeview, that uses a single menu that is customized for each treeview item. One context menu per treeview should provide much better performance if the treeview is bound to a large data set, since there are much less visual elements that have to be created. I am also using an updated view model, where each item contains a reference to its parent. This will help me to rely entirely on the model for my application logic, which greatly...

With the Q1 2009 SP2 release of RadControls for Silverlight we introduced an enhancement of the LocalizationManager class. Two new properties were added to enrich the localization support in the suite - DefaultCulture and DefaultResourceManager. With the new properties you no longer have to always create an instance of the LocalizationManager. Here is a brief description of the two properties: DefaultCulture A static property of type System.Globalization.CultureInfo. Use this one to change localized values without changing the UI culture of the current thread. DefaultResourceManager A static property of type System.Resources.ResourceManager. Use this one to change localized values using a new resource manager, i.e. a new resource file. Example: The attached...

In the upcoming Q2 release RadScheduler  will include a new property called AppointmentTemplateSelector. This property will be included in both  Silverlight and WPF versions of the control. Using it,  you will be able to easily apply different DataTemplate  to the appointments by any custom condition. All you need to do is to create a custom class inheriting from the  DataTemplateSelector class and override the SelectTemplate method.   For...

Following the release plan of RadScheduler for Silverlight we are proud to take you one step further with the public RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta.  A week ago we launched a private build by sending it only to the beta testers that were willing to take part in this early beta release. Now that we managed to further improve the control, we are launching this public beta featuring the following major functionalities:    Day/Week/Month View Edit Forms Recurring Appointments and Exceptions Localization support Built-in Dialogs Drag & Drop and Resizing of appointments Office Black theme Ability for customizing appointments and edit dialog Other major features to come with the official Q2...

  Telerik Sales Dashboard demo application shows you how to benefit from:  Code reuse between the Silverlight and WPF UI Implementing the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight ("Prism") Using OpenAccess ORM for building an optimized data layer with little or no coding  The Telerik Sales Dashboard is a demo application for monitoring a company’s sales representatives’ performance. The dashboard provides senior management with rich data visualizations for analyzing enterprise data, thus facilitating the decision-making process in a typical business environment. The demo demonstrates a best practice approach for structuring a large-scale enterprise application that has a single business-logic layer shared by two different presentation...