As the official Q3 release approaches, we decided to launch a preview of our controls that will officially become a part of the "RadControls for WPF" bundle. These are our RadGauge, RadChart and RadScheduler controls. We have been continuously working on these during the last several months to improve and further advance the controls to let you build complete Line-Of-Business applications with our full range of controls for WPF. With the wide variety of LOB controls and the consistent skins these controls provide, we aim at easing the process of building a complete and flexible UI of desktop applications. You can check...

As I mentioned in my previous post “UI Automation/Accessibility in Silverlight 2, tools and resources summary”, UIA Verify is one of the current options for UI Automation testing of controls and applications. The tool was published by the Microsoft UI Automation team about 7 months ago and according to the release page, it was downloaded about thousand of times so far. Still, I didn’t find any public articles regarding its advantages not because the tool is useless, quite the opposite! So I decided to describe the tool’s features briefly and I hope you’ll enjoy the tutorial. First of ...

 All you need to create your own custom skin for RadGrid is to copy one of our existing skins and change desired CSS settings. To do this you need to perform following steps: Copy one of our existing skins (for example Gray skin) in your application. Replace all occurrences of "_Gray" with your skin name (for example "_MyCustomSkin") in the CSS file. Change urls for the images (and other desired settings) in the CSS file. Register your CSS file in the HEAD tag of your page. Set Skin="MyCustomSkin" and EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" for RadGrid.   The result: Your own custom grid look and...

PDC is in full force at the LA Convention Center. The keynote was somewhat bland, but the big news of the day is Windows Azure. Microsoft's cloud services offering, Azure promises to allow developers to host and manage their applications in the cloud, scaling storage and computing resources on demand without concern for the infrastructure that will support them. With Azure, developers will be have access to the entire spectrum of Microsoft LOB development technologies (SQL Services, Sharepoint Services, .NET Services, etc) in the cloud. Attendees of PDC will get early access to an Azure CTP, so keep an eye...

I thought it might be interesting to do a quick rundown of the Visual Style Builder.  This tool comes with your Telerik WinForms control suite and provides a quick and easy way to change the look of a control.  The Visual Style Builder is located under the Telerik directory in your Start menu. It allows you to modify a variety of settings for a given control to build your own themes.  For example, if you select the RadButton control under the File | LoadControl menu, you will see it displayed center screen.  As you move your mouse cursor over the control...