Welcome back to another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. It's been a while since my last RadTip, so I hope you enjoy the new content. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. 1 - Client-Side Data Binding in the RadGrid 2 - Client-Side Paging in the RadGrid 3 - Client-Side Sorting in the RadGrid 4 - Client-Side Filtering in the RadGrid 5 - Getting Started with the RadScheduler 6 - Using the LinqDataSource in your RadGrid  7...

During the last couple of months we created several integration examples using RadControls for Silverlight. You can check all the samples online here: Consuming web services with Astoria Theme selector Job board example Car configurator Telerik Media Page Navigation - CV Viewer   The main idea behind creating so many integration examples is to help you see our controls in a real - world scenarios and to help you learn how to use the controls better. Today we published the full source code of the samples. It is available for download from your client.net...

It can be useful at times to draw the users attention to a certain row or rows in a grid.  You might want to point out an account that is about to expire or show that an entry requires approval.  Normally, you would evaluate the data in the grid yourself to change the BackColor of a row.  The RadGridView offers you the ability to create a condition that will apply certain formatting for you.  I have created a simple class that will allow us to display a few laptop orders.      public class Laptop     {         public string Manufacturer { get; set; }         public double Price {...

Our 'series' of tips and tricks for Telerik Reporting continues with this neat approach to sort the report by column. We would create a sample report using the AdventureWorks database that comes with our examples and use a single table with few columns that are easy to remember namely FirstName, LastName, Title .. you know the drill :) In order to use the built-in parameters area of the report, we would need to create a report Parameter that lists the column names. We can do that by creating a Business object that holds this for us:   public class ColumnSelector : DataTable     {        ...

Its been a while since my last blog post. But this is all for good. It was a busy month for the Telerik Silverlight Team. We did a couple of public releases in the last few weeks. Our last release was yesterday - if you still haven't saw it - do this now - we shipped the missing "5th element" of the suite - the GridView control for Silverlight. Our next release will be in the middle of December when we will release our next essential control - the Docking Manager for Silverlight. Now back on the topic. One of the major improvements in latest release...