The RadRotator is a control that is easily overlooked in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite. It is not one of the more compelling controls like the RadGrid or the RadEditor, but it certainly provides a key set of functionality that is important in order for Telerik to claim that our suite is the most complete ASP.NET AJAX suite on the market. I’d like to take some time to show you what we have done to make the RadRotator a control that makes it easy for you, dear developer, to add rich functionality to your web applications. Overview The RadRotator for ASP.NET AJAX is...

I’m happy to announce that with Q1 2009 version of RadControls for WPF and Silverlight you will be able to get the grid data in different formats using three extension methods: ToHtml(), ToText() and ToCsv(). I’ve made small demo to demonstrate how to use all these in a Silverlight web application for Word, Excel and Csv export: [Download]...

Building on my previous post where I talked about how to bind data to the RadGridView, today I want to show how you can display hierarchical data in the grid.  I will follow the same concept of building an application for a car repair shop to manage vehicles in for repair.  I will leverage two classes to display the data.  The original Car class which was used previously and a new CustomerComplaint class.  The Complaint property of the Car object was initially a string, but we need to allow for several issues to be reported so we will use the CustomerComplaint class to...

Today Telerik released the second service pack for the Q3 2008 RadControls for WinForms. It's been about a month and a half since SP1, and in that time a lot of great fixes and improvements have been added to the controls. The release notes, as always, have the full list of what's changed in this release, but here are a couple of enhancements of interest.  RadGridView Introduced an API for customizing XML Serialization Enhancements to the Validation API Improvement of the memory footprint and resource management RadDockingManager Improved layout with Tabbed Documents New property AutoHideSize which can be applicated to DockPanels and TabbedDocuments While...

I’ve made small demo how to perform server paging, sorting and filtering with RadGridView for Silverlight using ADO.NET DataServices and dynamic LINQ: All operations are applied directly to the data-base server: And you have minimal traffic between server and client: With this approach you can handle millions of records! Enjoy! [Download]...