If you have been developing applications with Telerik RadControls for WinForms and are dying to show them off, now is your chance! What's more, if the Telerik community decides you have the bragging rights, you will win a $500 Amazon Gift Certificate. All you need to do to participate in the new RadControls for WinForms Challenge is to send us at least 3 screenshots and a short (up to two paragraphs) description of your WinForms application. The first 50 contestants who meet the contest requirements and are approved as finalists will receive a complimentary prize of 5,000 Telerik points that can be used towards your next purchase. We're very interested to...

Do you think that RadComboBox animations are boring? We can spice them up with a little  help from jQuery. Let's make the dropdown fade for example - This can be done very easily using the fadeIn, fadeTo and fadeOut jQuery methods. You can download a sample project for more details. We can also animate the text of the items. All you need  to do is to animate the padding-left css attribute of the item's DOM element. The following script shows how the text can be moved when you hover over the item: $('.rcbItem') .mouseover(function(){          $(this).stop().animate({paddingLeft:"54px"}, {duration:500}); }) .mouseout(function(){          $(this).animate({paddingLeft:"4px"}, {duration:500}); })

Since the Q2 2008 SP1 release RadTreeView, RadMenu, RadPanelBar and RadTabStrip support hierarchical databinding to the LinqDataSource control. In this blog post I will demonstrate how to do this with RadTreeView (the steps are identical for the aforementioned controls). Create a new Web Site in Visual Studio 2008 and copy the Northwind database in your App_Data folder Add a new "Linq to SQL classes" item named "Northwind.dbml"

In case you have not yet registered for the new episode of the RadWebinar series on RadGridView for WinForms, this is your last chance! The free two-hour session will demonstrate how to use the RadGridView for WinForms component, including connecting to a database to display and edit data, column types, high-performance binding features, etc... It will be taught by Lino Tadros, President and CEO of Falafel Software. The webinar will be conducted at GoToWebinar, and will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1, 12:30pm—2:30pm EDT. Full details about the registration, along with the webinar materials and phone number to dial in, will be sent to all registered attendees before...

Last time I asked if you find the pixel shaders useful in WPF applications. There were a couple of answers giving links to online resources, but no one did actually say they use shaders or find any practical application. Most of the examples in the internet target transition effects and I currently can’t think of any other practical application. Why so? Well, transition effects are good way to veil long loading times without using WPF transitions/animations, i.e. without increasing the CPU load (assuming effects are hardware accelerated). Applying effects constantly, on the other hand, will require rendering the scene all...