I'm happy to announce that with our next service pack you will be able to bind RadGridView completely codeless to DomainDataSource in Silverlight 3: <Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition Height="30" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="DomainDataSource1" AutoLoad="True" LoadMethodName="LoadCustomers"> <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext> <localWeb:NorthwindDomainContext /> </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext> </riaControls:DomainDataSource> <telerik:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}" /> <df:DataPager x:Name="DataPager1" Grid.Row="1" PageSize="10" Source="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}" /> </Grid> All operations like paging, sorting and grouping are applied to the REST query with minimal JSON response:...

Although developers have been creating software for decades now it’s still fashionable, isn’t it? By “perfect software” I don’t mean zero bug-bounce only, but the brilliant feature-rich software that customers want to buy and be satisfied with throughout the years! What’s the secret, you wonder? Let me first explain where the problem comes from. I believe it’s really simple. When you develop software for someone out there, a red line appears between you, the developer and them, the users. Your mission becomes their satisfaction. You keep working upon customer requests with a vision from your side of the barrier. There ...

I have had a few people ask me about using the RadChart in the same manner as Performance Monitor (aka PerfMon). If you are not familiar with PerfMon, it is a tool that has been provided with Microsoft Windows for quite some time. You can open PerfMon by clicking the Start button within Windows, typing “perfmon” in the search box and pressing Enter.  PerfMon is a simple utility that displays performance counters. There are a wide variety of counters available, from CPU utilization of process threads to how many times the .NET Garbage Collector has run. The counters PerfMon allows...

Often we see requests from our Telerik Reporting clients to produce PDF or HTML representations of tabular data in order to be able to print the data on paper and/or to create a document. Although this is a common scenario, the proper tool or product has to be used in order to get the best possible results. Telerik Reporting supports these document formats, but often it is mistaken for a format conversion tool (say HTML to PDF), rather than a report generation tool, only because it supports these two formats. We also see a common misconception that Telerik Reporting is...

Q1 2009 SP1 (version 2009.1.413) The latest improvements and additions to both the suites are here and ready for download under the users' accounts. What's New in RadControls for WPF We added three new controls: RadColorPicker Telerik Color Picker control allows the users to choose a color from more than 20 pre-defined palettes. Additionally, custom palettes can also be defined by the users. RadTimePicker Telerik TimePicker control is an easy to use control allowing you to integrate time selection in your web applications. The control exposes an advanced parser that converts numeric values into valid time. Using the templates of the TimePicker control you can...