Today we would like to highlight one exciting feature that will find its way into the new RadChart control for WPF -- the control grants you the absolute freedom to compose its layout based on your business requirements and not the other way around. This effectively means that you can add an unlimited number of chart building blocks (chart areas, legends, and titles) so we will demonstrate now how easy the layout customization can be. Basically the control provides three options for layout customization: RadChart comes with a default preset layout (a single chart area, legend, and title) but you have complete...

Telerik became an exclusive sponsor of the "Write and Win" Contest organized by SilverlightShow.Net. "This contest aims to provoke people like you - geeks and fans, developers and designers, to show us what you've learned, what you've made, what you know. And all this will be shared with the community. Thus, we all make the Silverlight community stronger and active" states the official message at www.silverlightshow.net. The prizes that Telerik provides include: 1st - RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Reporting Developer Subscription and Source Code License ($1,299 value). This is Telerik’s most comprehensive license and it includes a Gold Support Package, free product updates and new product releases for a period of...

Silverlight is Microsoft's new platform for developing Rich Internet Applications. Instead of being constrained by the limitations of HTML, .NET developers can use their skills to create even more powerful applications in the browser than is possible with ASP.NET. But unless you've been living under a rock for the past year and a half, you already know that. What you might not know is how in the world to get started using this exciting new technology in your own projects. We have already released the RadControls for Silverlight 2 beta (which will be officially released alongside the release of Silverlight 2), and...

Over the past few days I worked on an image caching mechanism in the PDF Rendering Extension and I am happy to announce that the achieved output size reduction was more than significant. The Problem When a report contains the same binary image many times, the PDF Rendering Extension has no way of knowing that it is actually one and the same and renders it many times thus wasting disc space. For an illustration of this case imagine that you have your company's logo in the page header and your report is 200 pages long. The Solution: Enter Cyclic Redundancy Check I've implemented a central...

Last week we got an interesting request from a customer of ours – he wanted to add several RadCharts in the RadRotator control and to implement custom slideshow. The idea was so appealing that I decided to shoot a quick blog about it. We already have similar image slideshows and I must say it is a pretty cool way to give your WinForms app a modern style and appeal: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bdhadm.aspx Even though it is very easy to add RadChart directly to the rotator (by using RadHostItem), RadRotator performs much better with images and/or other windowless RadItems. This is why...