For the past month we worked hard and spent countless hours on designing and developing the new...

About a year ago my team leader asked me to write a control which mimics the behavior of Telerik RadPanelBar for ASP.NET. I had just finished the development of RadToolStrip so I though “Hmm, a panelbar for WinForms. It shouldn’t be too big of a deal. There is no dragging of toolStripItems, there are no floating forms, the add/remove should be easy to do, etc. But it turned out that it was a bit harder to do than I anticipated. Several issues popped up shortly after the Q1 2007 release, mostly related to performance and to controls being hosted in the panelbar. So...

It may be a bit late for the "Merry Christmas" part, but as people say it's better late than never. Hopefully all of you reading my blog have spent the holiday with your families and not in front of the PC and my best wishes are coming at the right time:)I wish you all (customers, non-customers, colleagues, partners, friends, competition) a great Year 2008. I hope that it will bring all of us joy, happiness and, above all, good health!Wish you all a wonderful New Year's Eve celebration and a very successful Year...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET/WinForms controls and Telerik Reporting:ASP.NETRadGrid Classic and RadGrid PrometheusCode library entries: Group by month:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbccad.aspxSet focus on filter textbox after filtering:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbcmdg.aspx RadChart Classic and RadChart PrometheusOnline examples: Numerical axis:http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Chart/Examples/Functionality/NumericalAxis/DefaultCS.aspxhttp://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Chart/Examples/Functionality/NumericalAxis/DefaultCS.aspxDrill-down chart:http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Chart/Examples/Functionality/DrillDown/DefaultCS.aspxhttp://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Chart/Examples/Functionality/DrillDown/DefaultCS.aspx

As promised, I am following up with the second part of the work we have done on RadGridView during the past release. If you have read the first part, you would remember that our goal was to provide a stable, fast and usable GridView product which has to live up to Telerik’s high standards. In  Re-engineering RadGridView for WinForms (part I) I talked about: Improvements to the UI and element painting in the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF), which raised RadGridView’s painting speed with some 30-60%, depending on the scenario the grid is used in;  Performance improvements in the data layer, which had an astonishing...