Prism can be thought of as a set of libraries that help Silverlight applications to be scalable and testable. It has a number of features (modularity, view regions and commanding) that help with this. A common scenario is to use Prism with a Docking control. You may want to create a shell with a Docking control and to mark some of the pane groups as regions and to use panes (or their content) as views. In this article we will create a sample application that accomplishes this scenario with the RadDocking control for Silverlight. We will need one additional step to...

If you think the light from the Silverlight 3 release has already gone dim, then you should wait to see the new blast that the Telerik team has prepared just to make sure that once again everybody is looking in the same direction. In this article I will introduce one of the new controls that are already extending the enormous capabilities of Silverlight 3.         One of the buzz words that came up with Silverlight 3 is the Plane Projection that allows you to render UI element in a plane projection. We have been passionately waiting for this and...

We received a couple of questions on how some of the days and hours in the different views of RadScheduler can be customized. The answer of this question is in the attached application illustrating how working hours and days can be  marked in orange.  The solution includes 3 easy steps : Create a custom theme using the default RadScheduler' theme. Create a ValueConverter returning the right color depending on the hour/day. Find the style applied to every hour(timeslot) and apply the converter to the Background property. To create a custom theme you can follow the steps...

It is often necessary to customize the header of a RadPane. Really common is to need to put an image in the header, to bind that image to a property, etc. There are many scenarios in which you need to add some custom behavior to the header. One of this situations is when you need to have close button or another button in the header of the pane. The tricky thing here is that you need to implement an event handler for the Click event of the button and to write some code that will do something with the Pane. In...

We all are aware that users tend to look for the easiest and most rational way to do something. That is why developers always strive to create their products' interface as intuitive as possible. Speaking in this context, dragging and dropping helps us improve user experience significantly and make end users happier. In this blog post I will explain how we can use RadDragAndDrop to enable users drag items from a certain control and drop them over RadScheduler, while notifying about that. Of course, the described scenario could be extended to act in many different scenarios. Let us say we will drag items from a listbox to...