We are just a few days away from releasing the full RadControls for Silverlight suite which with its advanced and unique capabilities will help you accelerate your Silverlight development.  As we follow closely the Microsoft release schedule, the suite was released and updated right after Microsoft Silverlight2 RTW release, when we showed you two new controls RadCoverFlow and RadContextMenu. Here are the novelties that you can expect with the upcoming release on November 5: RadGauge Great new integration examples showing our new Drag&Drop functionality, Page Navigation functionality, Databinding and Telerik advanced media components. New QSF design. New Theming mechanism allowing you to...

What better source for tips and tricks for your beloved Reporting product, than a blog spot right from the kitchen where the product is ‘mixed’. As of this post, we would like to start a small series of tips and tricks that make a developers’ life sweeter. We’re not going to discuss general topics, so if you’re looking for answers for one of those questions – please review our documentation and our forums. As you can guess, the sub-report item, which lets you display one report within another report is widely used in Telerik Reporting.  It lets you compose complex reports from...

As the official Q3 release approaches, we decided to launch a preview of our controls that will officially become a part of the "RadControls for WPF" bundle. These are our RadGauge, RadChart and RadScheduler controls. We have been continuously working on these during the last several months to improve and further advance the controls to let you build complete Line-Of-Business applications with our full range of controls for WPF. With the wide variety of LOB controls and the consistent skins these controls provide, we aim at easing the process of building a complete and flexible UI of desktop applications. You can check...

As I mentioned in my previous post “UI Automation/Accessibility in Silverlight 2, tools and resources summary”, UIA Verify is one of the current options for UI Automation testing of controls and applications. The tool was published by the Microsoft UI Automation team about 7 months ago and according to the release page, it was downloaded about thousand of times so far. Still, I didn’t find any public articles regarding its advantages not because the tool is useless, quite the opposite! So I decided to describe the tool’s features briefly and I hope you’ll enjoy the tutorial. First of ...

 All you need to create your own custom skin for RadGrid is to copy one of our existing skins and change desired CSS settings. To do this you need to perform following steps: Copy one of our existing skins (for example Gray skin) in your application. Replace all occurrences of "_Gray" with your skin name (for example "_MyCustomSkin") in the CSS file. Change urls for the images (and other desired settings) in the CSS file. Register your CSS file in the HEAD tag of your page. Set Skin="MyCustomSkin" and EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" for RadGrid.   The result: Your own custom grid look and...