For those of us who were not lucky enough to go to the PDC this week, Microsoft published all the video recordings online at the Channel9 website. If you have been there you should have seen the Telerik booth and some of my colleagues - we were once again the gold sponsor of the conference. There are eleven sessions for Silverlight - see them all here: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/pdc2008.silverlight/ If you don't have the time to watch them all - here is my Top3 recommended list: Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications Jamie Cool talks about the future releases of Silverlight components focused entirely on the LOB scenarios. You...

We are just a few days away from releasing the full RadControls for Silverlight suite which with its advanced and unique capabilities will help you accelerate your Silverlight development.  As we follow closely the Microsoft release schedule, the suite was released and updated right after Microsoft Silverlight2 RTW release, when we showed you two new controls RadCoverFlow and RadContextMenu. Here are the novelties that you can expect with the upcoming release on November 5: RadGauge Great new integration examples showing our new Drag&Drop functionality, Page Navigation functionality, Databinding and Telerik advanced media components. New QSF design. New Theming mechanism allowing you to...

Who would not like to implement a sleek drag and drop in minutes? I definitely would. This is why I find the new RadDragAndDrop a welcome addition to the controls. Straight to the point then: How to implement a simple drag/drop? To answer this question I will walk you through the DragDrop example that is available here: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Examples/DragAndDrop/FirstLook This example shows that the DragDrop can be used with any controls/objects, not just the Telerik RadControls. DragDrop 101 Few simple things to remember: Every object that will be dragged must have AllowDrag property to true, it is an attached property and in xaml it can be set the following way:   <Rectangle...

Today Microsoft released Silverlight2 RTW. See more info on this here. Following this great news, we released an update of our RadControls for Silverlight2 suite that is compatible with this latest plugin. The update is now available for download from your client.net account.   With this update, we expanded the suite with two bright new controls - RadContextMenu and RadCoverFlow, and we added support for custom Themes!   There are also a couple of new examples: RadTreeView > Checked Nodes RadTreeView > Expand Mode RadTreeView > Lines Support RadTreeView > HtmlApi RadTreeView > Themes RadTabControl > Drag Over Tab RadTabControl > Drag Reorder RadUpload > ImageGallery sample RadUpload > Events RadUpload > Working with Custom Parameters   In the following days we will upload several...

Yesterday I wrote about how to databind RadTreeView for Silverlight to ADO.NET Data Service and use Load on Demand. The simple application from yesterday was upgraded to a small back-end application for the Northwind database, that allows editing and deleting products. This time I decided to give it to one of our designers and our new Silverlight front end developer and they implemented this slick design: The application is available online: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/northwindbackend/Default.aspx The source code can be downloaded from here: NorthwindBackend.zip In addition to yesterday's application, NorthwindBackend has extended data source, that provides simple undo mechanism and ability to update and delete products...