Although Expression Blend and Visual Studio can work on the same solution / project files, they remain two separate IDEs and it is not uncommon for certain functionality to work correctly in the Visual Studio design-time environment and throw an error in the Expression Blend one. The Blend error output does not always help much with identifying the reason for the erroneous behavior:    This clearly does not give us enough information to track the problem down. Fortunately there is an easier way to detect the problem instead of wandering around the code in a manual “debugging” session – the Visual Studio...

Immediately after word got out that we acquired Vanatec, customers started asking us what are our plans for the tool, how much it is going to cost and whether they would get it for free or they would have to upgrade. While we will be releasing information about our future plans for OpenAccess and will publish the ORM roadmap in the weeks to come, I wanted to make a quick note about licensing. The good news for customers with an all-inclusive subscription is that they will get the tool free of charge, as well as any updates that are out during their subscription....

Who would not like to implement a sleek drag and drop in minutes? I definitely would. This is why I find the new RadDragAndDrop a welcome addition to the controls. Straight to the point then: How to implement a simple drag/drop? To answer this question I will walk you through the DragDrop example that is available here: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Examples/DragAndDrop/FirstLook This example shows that the DragDrop can be used with any controls/objects, not just the Telerik RadControls. DragDrop 101 Few simple things to remember: Every object that will be dragged must have AllowDrag property to true, it is an attached property and in xaml it can be set the following way:   <Rectangle...

Today Microsoft released Silverlight2 RTW. See more info on this here. Following this great news, we released an update of our RadControls for Silverlight2 suite that is compatible with this latest plugin. The update is now available for download from your client.net account.   With this update, we expanded the suite with two bright new controls - RadContextMenu and RadCoverFlow, and we added support for custom Themes!   There are also a couple of new examples: RadTreeView > Checked Nodes RadTreeView > Expand Mode RadTreeView > Lines Support RadTreeView > HtmlApi RadTreeView > Themes RadTabControl > Drag Over Tab RadTabControl > Drag Reorder RadUpload > ImageGallery sample RadUpload > Events RadUpload > Working with Custom Parameters   In the following days we will upload several...

I have the pleasure to announce that RadCalendar for ASP.NET AJAX has undergone a considerable HTML and CSS optimization. As a result, the HTML output generated by the following RadCalendar declaration has dropped from 5,916 bytes to 3,905 bytes, or by...