For all you tweeps out there, this is a quick plug for the newest Twitter client on the block, digiTweet. I was first alerted to this new client on Channel 10, and just started using it with my account. I must say I am very pleased. For a beta product, this one gets two thumbs up! It’s built with WPF and is open source (you can find it on CodePlex). I also happen to like the sleek interface. Being a .NET guy, I’m partial to apps that are build with .NET (the Twitter client I’ve been using, TweetDeck, was built with Adobe...

RadChart supported point mark visual indicators for chart series like Line, Area, Spline, etc. from version one, however, customization of these indicators was hard and certainly not for the faint-hearted. With the latest version of the control released this week (Q1 2009 SP1) we introduced two major improvements that significantly simplify the interaction with the point mark indicators.   Option 1: Customizing the appearance of the point marks through the PointMark API and predefined point mark shapes RadChart supports 8 predefined shapes that you can use for the point marks (members of the Telerik.Windows.Controls.Charting.MarkerShape enumeration): Circle (default) Diamond Hexagon Triangle Square SquareRounded StarFiveRay StarEightRay   Here is a sample code snippet that demonstrates...

Those of you paying attention to “conference news” are probably aware of Microsoft’s entrance in to the cloud computing space via their platform code-named “Windows Azure.”  This version of “Windows in the cloud” essentially makes it possible to easily build and deploy .NET web applications to Microsoft’s hosted cloud infrastructure. The benefits of deploying your application to the cloud are (potentially) many, but I am going to assume you are already aware of the key “selling points” (such as scalability, scalability, and…oh yeah, scalability). TELERIK IS CLOUD READY I’m pleased to report that Telerik is “Cloud Ready.” This is a bit of...

Another popular feature in RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX is header context menu and I’ve made small demo how to achieve the same in RadGridView for Silverlight:   Similar to the custom filter row you can enable this functionality for your grid with a single property: <telerikGrid:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" telerikGridViewHeaderMenu:GridViewHeaderMenu.IsEnabled="True" telerik:StyleManager.Theme="Vista" /> Enjoy! [Download]...

I recently posted an entry regarding the Radial Gauge for WPF where I demonstrated how you can create a half circle gauge.  Not long after that post, I received a question asking about Linear Gauges and how to use multiple scales in a single Linear Gauge.  It is not that there is a functional difference, but rather a visual difference.  The Office Black theme (shown below) has a border area in the middle where the linear gauges were overlapping causing a visual collision.  There are a number of ways that you can accomplish a task and I think one of...