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A common question that we received from our customers regarding our RadPanel control was whether the scrollbars can be customized so that they are consistent with the current theme used in the application. Since RadPanel supports the standard Windows Forms scrolling behavior and the customization of the standard scrollbars is basically impossible, we decided, by using some nice trickery, to introduce a new control that provides the RadPanel functionality and also supports theming of the scrollbars. Here is a picture of what we achieved:     In a nutshell, the RadScrollablePanel control is composed of two RadScrollBars and a panel that represents the container for the controls added....

For the Q3 2009 release, we have added a few important new features to the RadDock. The first of these features is the ability to set the tab strip alignment and/or visibility on DocumentTabStrip and ToolTabStrip instances. The second feature we have added is the ability to implement your own manual drag and drop behavior. Tab Alignment and Visibility When working with ToolTabStrips and DocumentTabStrips in the Q3 release, you will notice that we have added two new properties. The first of these properties, TabStripAlignment, allows you to set the alignment of tabs within their parent TabStrip. The second of these properties, TabStripVisible, ...

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,88d4e8cc-5c29-46de-9aa6-620462b5e20d.aspx";digg_title = "Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard October CTP";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; The Telerik WCF Wizard that I have shown on this blog several times has been updated and is available on Telerik Labs for download. Whenever Telerik puts something up on Telerik Labs we hope that some early adopters will try it out and give us feedback. We had an amazing demand for the Telerik OpenAccess WCF wizard and got tons of feedback. The most overwhelming piece of feedback is the name of the wizard: so as of this CTP, the wizard is now renamed the Telerik Data Services Wizard. We made some key enhancements in this build for usability. The big thing is that you no longer have to...

Developers (yours truly included) often hate it when there is a need to deal with an external tool to accomplish a simple task. The upgrade process of RadControls seems such a task – you need to start a browser, open the Telerik website, login to your account, navigate to the Downloads section, download the installer and run it. Even more - if you want to keep updated you need to either check your RSS reader or e-mail, or refresh the Downloads page when you’re eagerly waiting for a new version.   One of the new features in the RadControls for ASP.NET...

With our upcoming Q3 2009 release you can use RadCompression (part of Telerik.Web.UI.dll) to compress your RIA services: Without compression: With compression: Check the numbers :) Enjoy! [Download]...