A week or so ago I was giving a small presentation and one of the people in the audience had a great question.  They had this old configuration section on their website for laying out something or other that had a lot of different options which could be dragged and dropped using some client-side javascript, but they are looking to move on up to Silverlight and the RadDragAndDropManager seemed to be the perfect candidate for the job.  The only issue with that is the only examples we have online show moving items to and from collections, but in their case...

It is official – Telerik RadControls for Silverlight3 are here with the latest 2009 Q2 SP1 release. We did our best to take advantage of all new and exciting features from the latest version of the platform. RadControls now offer a new theming mechanism and you can clearly see the difference when you open our demo examples in Blend. We also added support for .NET RIA Services for all data-bound Telerik Silverlight 3 controls. Check the codeless binding of RadgridView to DomainDataSource to see how it works. The next exciting additions are validation for all input controls and out of browser support so now you...

We all know that animations are making our applications look more slick. As Silverlight and WPF are platforms that have great support for animations, we want our Silverlight and WPF applications to be more animated and look better.     Today I will show you how to add animations support to the Telerik RadWindow control using one of the most powerful approaches in WPF and Silverlight for extending the functionality of existing components – the attached behavior. We will create two attached properties that take care to run the animations when needed. The good thing is that you can use this approach for...

We are proud to announce the availability of RadControls for Silverlight 3 RTW.   The latest binaries of our Silverlight 3 controls can be downloaded as part of the latest internal build that is available under each user's account. We will be working on officially launching our RadControls for Silverlight suite against the latest official Silverlight 3 RTW with the forthcoming SP1 release. Then you will be able to fully explore our examples and controls entirely built against Silverlight 3.

by Nikolay Atanasov

July 13, 2009 Share

With the Q1 2009 SP2 release of RadControls for Silverlight we introduced an enhancement of the LocalizationManager class. Two new properties were added to enrich the localization support in the suite - DefaultCulture and DefaultResourceManager. With the new properties you no longer have to always create an instance of the LocalizationManager. Here is a brief description of the two properties: DefaultCulture A static property of type System.Globalization.CultureInfo. Use this one to change localized values without changing the UI culture of the current thread. DefaultResourceManager A static property of type System.Resources.ResourceManager. Use this one to change localized values using a new resource manager, i.e. a new resource file. Example: The attached...