Recently John showed how to create half-circle gauges and now I am glad to announce that RadGauge, both WPF and Silverlight, supports half-circle and quarter-circle styles out of the box. All you need to do is provide the correct resource through a ResourceDictionary and then use the corresponding style. The styles are named after the major geographical directions -- North, East, South and West, well we only use the first letters here - N, E, S and W. So the styles you need are <Theme>RadialGaugeHalfCircle<Direction>Style and <Theme>RadialScaleHalfCircle<Direction>Style. Check the following example - semi-circular, south-directed vista-styled gauge: And this is the XAML used:        ...

Everyone is different when it comes to where they go to get answers to their development questions.  Many people use popular search engines like Google, while others prefer visit forums like Stack Overflow first.  Where do YOU go when you need help?  Telerik offers a plethora of options when it comes to finding an answer of how to accomplish a task.  These resources allow you to not only answer questions, but also learn more about a product and become more proficient.  I thought it might make a useful post to mention the options in case you missed one.    Forums      The...

Implementing Line of Business applications has never been easier before. RIA services together with the rich presentation layer in Silverlight provide a powerful foundation for building n-tier application that will do the heavy lifting of your data layer. RIA Services relies on the ADO.NET Entity Framework to create an entity data model of your relational database and interpret the entities independently of their data store representation. In this way you can use the power of LINQ to Entities to implement query logic against the entities without using t-sql, and rely on the entity relationship to retrieve information for any relationship between...

We are excited to share with you all the impressions we gathered from the largest IT event in Europe - Internet World 09. The London-based conference for digital marketing and online business, content management, social media and web 2.0 attracted over 10 000 visitors who we were happy to meet and make contacts with our Sitefinity team reps at the Telerik booth in Earls Court 2. This was the first Internet World event we took part in so Sitefinity got the chance to impress many attendees who were amazed by its rich functionality and robustness. Internet World was our second European...

If you followed my posts last week, you learned that the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX are “cloud ready.” You can take the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX that you know and love today and confidently use them in Cloud Service applications that target the Microsoft Azure cloud environment. In case you missed those posts, you can catch-up now:   RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX on Azure Deploying RadControls to Azure   I’m happy to relay that the videos that are related to these blog posts are now both available on Telerik TV for your immediate viewing pleasure. Each video illustrates the concepts defined in the blog posts,...