Q3 2011 is knocking on the door and along with all the cool stuff you will find inside, there is one feature that we would like to tell you about now. Do you remember Excel-Like functionality, which allows the end-user to effortlessly apply filter by selecting items from a popup list? Now we are including a bunch of new stuff to it.   Calendar filter popup First of all is a new calendar popup. It will be shown by default for date columns, and it will allow for easily selecting a date from RadCalendar. For additional convenience, there are a couple of predefined...

Oh boy, should we call this one MetroUI for WinForms? It’s your call… If you have been following Telerik’s Windows Forms roadmap, you probably have noticed that we plan to introduce several cool and requested features, which however do not match the latest design patterns in the IT world. Did you really think that we were going to introduce just these features? Did you? Well, you are wrong. :-) With the introduction of the Windows 8 preview at the /BUILD// conference, it became clear that Microsoft will push the Metro design concept to all of its products. We welcome this stance! The...

Q3 2011 release is getting close and we are eager to share some of the improvements that we have been working on lately. We have always been relying on your feedback to better shape our tools for your purposes. This time it is no different. RadPropertyGrid will get three highly requested features. The first feature will allow you to add custom items in the RadPropertyGrid by using RadPropertyStore. It is a collection of PropertyStoreItems which contain information that describes a property, its type, name, value, etc. When the RadPropertyStore is set to the SelectedObject property of the RadPropertyGrid, it displays these...

RadGridView provides numerous handful approaches to customize its appearance, even at runtime. For example, you could use  formatting events or the Style property . However, sometimes it is handy to specify complex conditions in a script form. In our previous release we introduced an  expression editor which allows for using formulas and expressions both at design time and runtime. In our next release we will introduce the same powerful feature for conditional formatting. You and your end-users will be able to target and style RadGridView cells and rows using powerful expressions. With the help of our existing rule-based conditional formatting you can easily highlight all cells...

I suppose that you guys were as much excited about the presentation of Windows 8 as we were. We were also very eager to put our hands on the Developer Preview of Windows 8 and we did so right after the build was released. And here comes the good news – RadControls for WinForms run smoothly on Windows 8! The Telerik Metro and Telerik Metro Blue themes that we have introduced during the past several months will allow your RadControls-enabled applications to nicely match the Metro design of the new Operating System.   RadControls for WinForms Examples application running on Windows 8   Happy coding!...