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  • People

    Vote in the Telerik Reporting Contest

    The submission stage of the Reporting case-study contest is over, but the voting is not! Review the submissions and cast your vote now. All voters will receive 500 Telerik points. Every case study must be rated on a 1 to 4 scale and the case studies which receive the highest cumulative score will be announced winners on April 8. As with most Telerik contests, your involvement would be vital - it is your voting that would determine the winners of the $500, $300 and $200 Amazon Gift Coupons. Vote now for the best...
    April 02, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    Adding Custom Fields to RadScheduler for WinForms Appointments

    When using RadScheduler for WinForms, it will almost always need to be customized in some way. This could come in the form of custom dialogs, context menus, or even custom appointments. In this blog entry, I am going to explain the steps required to add a custom field to RadScheduler. Click here to download the source code and follow along... Adding Custom Fields to Appointments In this example, a custom field for Email will be added to the Appointment class being used by RadScheduler. The process of accomplishing this involves five simple steps. Step 1: Add a Custom Field to the Data Source In order to display ...
    April 02, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    Data Binding with RadScheduler for WinForms

    RadScheduler for WinForms is highly customizable component that offers functionality similar to that of the Calendar included with MS Outlook. When working with RadScheduler, developers can easily bind data sources directly to it using an instance of SchedulerBindingDataSource. The provided data source can be in the form of a database or business objects. The only requirement is that the data source must conform to a specific structure and provide specific fields. Today, I will explain how to set up basic data binding in RadScheduler using SchedulerBindingDataSource and an Access database. The Base Application For this entry, it should be noted ...
    April 02, 2010
  • People

    Telerik Surprise Product Hint

    Hello Telerik Developer Community!   What could be a better day for announcing a lil’ contest than the 1st of April? You can't say we've lost our sense of humor. So, it isn’t a joke, and below are a few hints about one of the 3 products Telerik is launching in the near future.   You might have caught a wind of our ‘surprise product’ – http://www.telerik.com/products/surprise . We have now updated the surprise product page with 3 images to give you a hint at what the product does. So, here are the contest details:   From the 3 images posted at surprise product page, guess...
    April 01, 2010
  • Web

    Some fun with RadGridView for Silverlight …literally !

    April Fools' Day is a great excuse for me to do something funny with RadGridView. So today’s post will have less geekness and more fun than usually.   Silverlight being a great platform and RadGridView being enormously flexible control provoked me to do something that you can not exactly call the typical Line-Off-Business application.   So enjoy this small  Pexeso game clone created with the help of RadGridView for Silverlight and some standard Silverlight re-styling techniques. The rules are simple : Try to open two identical cards at the same time. The goal of the game – try to open all cards this way. My best score was...
    April 01, 2010
  • People

    Vote in the Telerik Reporting Contest

    The submission stage of the Reporting case-study contest is over, but the voting is not! Review the submissions and cast your vote now. All voters will receive 500 Telerik points. Every case study must be rated on a 1 to 4 scale and the case studies which receive the highest cumulative score will be announced winners on April 8. As with most Telerik contests, your involvement would be vital - it is your voting that would determine the winners of the $500, $300 and $200 Amazon Gift Coupons. Vote now for the best...
    April 02, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    Adding Custom Fields to RadScheduler for WinForms Appointments

    When using RadScheduler for WinForms, it will almost always need to be customized in some way. This could come in the form of custom dialogs, context menus, or even custom appointments. In this blog entry, I am going to explain the steps required to add a custom field to RadScheduler. Click here to download the source code and follow along... Adding Custom Fields to Appointments In this example, a custom field for Email will be added to the Appointment class being used by RadScheduler. The process of accomplishing this involves five simple steps. Step 1: Add a Custom Field to the Data Source In order to display ...
    April 02, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    Data Binding with RadScheduler for WinForms

    RadScheduler for WinForms is highly customizable component that offers functionality similar to that of the Calendar included with MS Outlook. When working with RadScheduler, developers can easily bind data sources directly to it using an instance of SchedulerBindingDataSource. The provided data source can be in the form of a database or business objects. The only requirement is that the data source must conform to a specific structure and provide specific fields. Today, I will explain how to set up basic data binding in RadScheduler using SchedulerBindingDataSource and an Access database. The Base Application For this entry, it should be noted ...
    April 02, 2010
  • People

    Telerik Surprise Product Hint

    Hello Telerik Developer Community!   What could be a better day for announcing a lil’ contest than the 1st of April? You can't say we've lost our sense of humor. So, it isn’t a joke, and below are a few hints about one of the 3 products Telerik is launching in the near future.   You might have caught a wind of our ‘surprise product’ – http://www.telerik.com/products/surprise . We have now updated the surprise product page with 3 images to give you a hint at what the product does. So, here are the contest details:   From the 3 images posted at surprise product page, guess...
    April 01, 2010
  • Web

    Some fun with RadGridView for Silverlight …literally !

    April Fools' Day is a great excuse for me to do something funny with RadGridView. So today’s post will have less geekness and more fun than usually.   Silverlight being a great platform and RadGridView being enormously flexible control provoked me to do something that you can not exactly call the typical Line-Off-Business application.   So enjoy this small  Pexeso game clone created with the help of RadGridView for Silverlight and some standard Silverlight re-styling techniques. The rules are simple : Try to open two identical cards at the same time. The goal of the game – try to open all cards this way. My best score was...
    April 01, 2010