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  • Desktop WinForms

    Smooth scrolling in RadGridView for WinForms

    Up until Q3 2009, RadGridView for WinForms used a scrollbar in every child view when in hierarchy mode. This however can be a problem when there are many nested levels, i.e. it can lead to a situation where you do not have enough visual estate to scroll through the hierarchy:     In our latest release RadGridView is using only one scrollbar that scrolls the root level and all the child views, with no performance loss whatsoever, because we have optimized the scrolling mechanism to be better performing and smoother:     Since there are cases where using nested scrollbars is the better option, we still offer the...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for RadControls for WinForms updated to Q3 2009

    Last week we updated the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for RadControls for WinForms on CodePlex with the mighty Q3 2009 versions of our WinForms tools. A few compatibility issues were resolved with this update as well. If you are using the WinForms CAB kit, just visit http://telerikcab.codeplex.com/ to download the latest update. Enjoy!...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Introducing the RadScrollablePanel

    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....
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadElement Lifecycle – a WinForms TPF Story

    Why new TPF improvement? Knowing that the faster an application loads, the better the overall User Experience is, we put serious efforts in optimizing our presentation framework as much as possible. Since Q3 2009, RadElement, the smallest visual unit in Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) has been given its own lifecycle. The major benefit of this new improvement is significant boost during the loading and disposing stages. Simple tests prove that controls load and dispose between 50% up to 300% faster, depending on the depth of the corresponding element tree, hosted on each control. Some Technical Stuff A RadElement...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadScheduler for WinForms data binding and occurrence exceptions

    The big [new] feature for Q3 2009 release in RadScheduler for WinForms has got to be the resource grouping functionality. There are, however, numerous other improvements that also deserve attention, such as data binding. Some of you may remember that in its first release the WinForms Scheduler had just basic support for binding to appointment data. Later we extended this functionality to support storing associations to resources in the data source. Well, the Q3 2009 release brings to RadScheduler support for binding to exceptions (through the SchedulerBindingDataSource) out-of-the-box. No, these are not exceptions as in “C# exceptions”...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read