Silverlight platform is getting more mature, the adoption rate is constantly raising and at the same time Page Brooks and Dave Campbell, together with some of the Silverlight community leaders and Microsoft MVPs have started a control builder contest. Check out the contest website to see the rules, prizes and how to register - http://gosilverlight.org/. As we are deeply involved with the Silverlight platform and community, we decided to make our contribution to the contest by giving our most valued license control bundle to all the winners!!! The bundle includes "ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting" controls. The license will also automatically give you the Silverlight controls once they are officially released (which will happen till the end of this summer). The first place winner will also...

Hi everyone. I'm Jordan Dimitrov from the WPF team. I'm planning to post about .Net, first with few post about WPF. My first post is about resources and themes. Recently I had a problem with resources from themes files. I tried to use DynamicResource markup extension in Style in generic.xaml (sample bellow). But it didn't work. I changed DynamicResource extension with StaticResource markup extension and now it works. But WHY DynamicResource doesn't work? Sample XAML In my generic.xaml there are two items - a style for my CustomControl1 and a resource SolidColorBrush with key brush1.     1 <ResourceDictionary     2    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"     3    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"     4    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1">    ...

Lately, we have been preparing a sample application showing the usage of our RadControls for Silverlight 2 in a real life scenario.  Finally, we are able to make this application public and let you experience the flexibility of our controls. We have just uploaded the demo at: SnowBoard Online Store You can also access the example from our RadControls for Silverlight - Overview page by clicking on the banner residing in the bottom-right corner. We tried to show all the flexibility and interoperability between our controls by combining them into a fully-functional and flashy online store for snowboards. This is the place to thank to...

The powerful Control Template and Styling mechanism of the forthcoming RadTreeView for Silverlight 2 will allow you to easily create a "bracket" view. The forthcoming CTP release of RadControls for Silverlight 2 (that will be live as soon as Microsoft launches the official Silverlight 2 Beta 2) will feature such an example in the QSF section. The screen-shot below gives you a short preview of what the lookless RadTreeView is all about. Another example that will be demonstrated within the QSF section is a panelbar view of the tree control. Along with its advanced layout mechanism RadTreeView harnesses the power of content-driven controls....

Moving forward with the next-generation Web Controls, Telerik is proud to announce its forthcoming CTP release of the RadContols suite for Silverlight 2.0. As always, our main goal is adding power to the default controls bundled with Silverlight 2.0. What is more, we will release controls that are not “in the box” of what Microsoft has already prepared. We will provide fully featured, lookless and completely stylable controls that will be “WPF Source Code” compatible. RadControls will allow you to accomplish Rich User Experience and deliver valuable visualizations to your custom applications. Our eye-catching examples will guide you through the...