…Or how you should manage predefined themes in Q2 2008 As mentioned previously, RadControls for WinForms is the only WinForms suite which provides WPF-like effects on the classic Windows Forms platform. This has its challenges, because the Windows Forms platform was not build with such rich visualization in mind. For example, performance suffers if too many elements are animated on the form; the form/application start up time increases with too many visual elements on the form, etc. It is our job to try and find ways to keep these times at a minimum, but keep the same rich functionality and dazzling...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls//Telerik Reporting/Sitefinity:   ASP.NET RadGrid Help topics Section 508 compliance http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grid-section-508-compliance.html   RadAjax Help topics Getting started -> How RadAjax works: Controls and Configuration http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/ajx-how-it-works.html   RadComboBox Code library entries Reside the DropDown with a mouse: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-begcmk.aspx Help topics Appearance and Styling > Tutorial: Change the appearance of the Input element http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/appearance-change-input-look-tutorial.html   RadTreeView Code library entries Drag a node to a TextArea: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bemmam.aspx Help topics Troubleshooting -> Load On Demand with server-side NodeClick http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/troubleshooting-load-on-demand-on-server-side-node-click.html   RadScheduler Knowledge base articles Using RadScheduler with AccessDataSource: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bacm-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx Customizing the advanced template: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-badd-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx How to show all appointments in Month view: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-badb-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx Help topics Client-Side Programming -> OnClientTimeSlotContextMenu http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/client-side-onclienttimeslotcontextmenu.html Client-Side Programming -> OnClientAppointmentMoveStart...

With dependency properties being so heavily used across the WPF platform, there is a good chance that sooner or later you will get bitten by this issue my colleague Hristo Deshev and I were debugging not long ago. Some heads-up can't really hurt anybody so here it is;). We will declare a simple class Foo with a single collection dependency property (note that this is a reference type). We will also supply our brand new property with a default value through the convenient DependecyProperty.Register(...) method: Let us put our class to the test by creating two Foo instances and adding a single item...

This is a great technique for those of you who need to run a service on your web server, but are using shared hosting and don't have the ability to do so. I first saw this technique at one of Rob Howard's TechEd sessions earlier this year. If you have the need to do some routine processing, typically you would consider writing a Windows service. For example, if you were running a web application which pulls data from multiple other sites and web services you might want to periodically load that data into a database and serve it from there rather...

I've made three demos on how to use RadGrid templates to build completely client-side edit and update: - server-side GridTemplateColumn - server-side GridTableView ItemTemplate - client-side GridTableView ItemTemplate (ASP.NET AJAX 4.0...