In “First Look at Silverlight 2” Scott Gu showed how easy is to change the visual appearance of a Silverlight application using the standard features of the Silverlight Grid control: While reading the blog, it occurred to me that it would be very easy to achieve similar effects with RadGridView for WinForms. With the latest version of RadGridView you can change the row layout using different view definitions in a very simplistic and easy way:     Using parts and ideas from Scott’s article, I compiled a small application that gets a list of article from digg.com via web services and shows them in RadGridView...

Hi guys! We suppose that you have already downloaded our Q3 version (released last week) and you're enjoying the new rendering engine. For those of you who missed what's new, I'll list it here once again: Official release of the Project Upgrade Wizard - no more upgrade hassles. Our Upgrade Wizard would take care of that for you. New Report Rendering Engine, offering:   Excellent rendering performance The new rendering engine optimizes the usage of system resources (memory consumption and processor loads) during data processing and ...

  Inspired by Nikhil's blog post about C# 4.0 - Dynamic REST Service Calls I've made small demo how to bind the grid to Flickr REST API  and here is the result:   You can configure the service to return JSON and deserialize the result: and since we don't need all the data you can use LINQ to turn the result into more understandable objects: Enjoy!   [Live | Download]...

I'm happy to announce that we've implemented support for IBindableControl for the grid and now you can edit, update and insert with minimal coding if your user control implements this interface: Also using the power of LINQ you can fill the dictionary in a single line of code. Enjoy! [Live | Download]...

With the Q3 edition of RadControls for WPF Telerik has officially included in the suite three major controls - RadScheduler, RadChart and RadGauge. Thus, Telerik puts the accent on rich data visualization and interactivity by introducing powerful and completely stylable and customizable controls.   RadControls for WPF features a new theming mechanism for the Slider, ProgressBar, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Calendar and DatePicker controls to make them consistent with the rest of the controls in the suite. Also , a new skin (Vista) has been added to further enrich the UI capabilities of the controls and let you create consistent LOB applications. Not only we introduced new...