A common request on our forums is how to enable the Search As You Type online example to search in DateTime or Integer properties. Also recently another request was brought to our attention: How to highlight the matching search text in the grid cells. In this blog post I’m going to show you how to achieve these goals.   Let’s start our journey, by looking at the MainPage.xaml of the attached sample application:     1 <UserControl x:Class="DateTimeFiltering.MainPage"     2    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"     3    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"     4    xmlns:telerik="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView"     5    xmlns:themes="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls"     6    xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"     7    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:DateTimeFiltering"     8    xmlns:jeff="clr-namespace:JeffWilcox.Samples;assembly=HighlightingTextBlock">    ...

We are proud to announce the launch of Telerik's interactive issue tracking system! Now you can suggest features or report bugs for all Telerik products and then track the progress of your feature or download the latest build with your fix. The voting functionality allows you to raise the priority of issues and thus expedite their solutions. The shiny application is built entirely from scratch and uses the stylish RadControls for Silverlight for displaying data. Although the first version is with a Beta tag you can explore almost the entire functionality of PITS and see how Telerik Silverlight controls handle real...

At the end of the previous week we uploaded a new service pack for our ASP.NET AJAX controls. If you want to get your hands on the enhancements/fixes available in it, grab the bits from your account and upgrade the controls in your apps following the directions from here. For a complete list of the changes refer to the release notes page below: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q3 2009 SP2 release notes

This past weekend, Todd Anglin, Gabe Sumner, Joshua Holt, Matthew Shoemate (my brother), and myself headed up to Dallas, TX to participate in the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend. We Are Microsoft is a three day event that pairs development teams with different charities to develop applications for those charities. These application typically come in the form of new websites, modules for existing websites, etc. The charity we got paired with was We Help Ourselves. We Help Ourselves is a charity organized a run by a wonderful group of people, including, in particular, Mike Gelhausen and Mary Elizabeth Parra. ...

The Q3 2009 SP2 of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF has just been released and the files are available for download under the users' accounts - both trial and dev versions. Full Release notes can be read at: RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2009 SP2 Release Notes RadControls for WPF Q3 2009 SP2 Release Notes   You can also refer to our public RoadMaps for Q1 2010 about RadControls for Silverlight/WPF for more information about what is coming after this service pack release....