If you have ever used Microsoft Outlook or Windows Explorer, you have seen the use of panels to organize content.  See Outlook 2007 screenshot below: This is a very useful method of organizing information that you want available to the user all the time.  Panels can house different functionality like managing options, navigating the application or displaying important details.  You can incorporate this same functionality in your applications using the RadPanelBar.  To get started, I thought it might be nice to create a Outlook like PanelBar with a calendar inside.  My goal is not to recreate what Outlook has done, but...

We are excited to announce the latest SP1 edition of the RadControls for WPF Q3 2008. The controls have been under serious development during the last couple of weeks and we managed to include major improvements and bug fixes in this latest service pack release.   Online examples can be seen at: Online Demos To download the latest build please visit your Client Account   A detailed list of all the changes can be found below:   RadGridView New themes New Office_Black theme has been added New features New API has been added for starting/canceling new row insertion Improvements Scrolling performance improvements ...

Just a quick follow-up: we uploaded the application sample as a code library item named "Using OpenAccess with SilverLight and Ado.Net Data Services" and it is available at:...

After we prepared our data service it is time to put some client UI into it. I must apologize in advance as the only UI that I’ve used is a ListBox control, and it looks… well pretty much ugly. The goal was to proof that the whole setup works as expected, not to design a profound UI solution. I am pretty sure that as a follow up, our SilverLight team will enhance the sample to a full-scale integration example very soon.

With our next service pack you will be able to compress your entire AJAX traffic completely codeless with a single web.config setting: ... <httpModules>    <add name="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" />  </httpModules>  ...   <!--         The system.webServer section is required for running ASP.NET AJAX under Internet         Information Services 7.0.  It is not necessary for previous version of IIS.     -->    <system.webServer>      <modules>         <add name="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" />      </modules>  ... Features: Support for all traditional ajax requests including RadAjaxManager,...