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  • Desktop WinForms

    Changing the Backcolor for the RadMenu for WinForms

    Recently a question regarding how to change the BackColor of the RadMenu for WinForms.  I thought it might be easier to outline this process with screenshots so I put together a quick post to answer the question. After creating a new WinForms application project, I added a RadMenu.  The screenshot below shows that the default color of the menu is blue. The quickest way to accomplish this task is to click on the SmartTag in the DesignView.  Then select the Edit UI Element menu option. This will open a new window which is called the Element hierarchy editor. Within the Element hierarchy editor, select the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • People

    DevConnections Spring 09 Wrap up

    We would like to thank the over 200 attendees who came to our booth at the spring edition of DevConnections 2009 which took place March 22 - 25, 2009 at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida.   We were happy to be a Platinum sponsor of the event which comprised of ASP.NET connections, Visual Studio connections, SQL Server connections and SharePoint connections. Everyone who visited the Telerik booth got a cool .NET Ninja T-shirt and had the chance to meet our friendly staff in person and see demos of our new products and product features. Telerik’s Developer evangelist John Kellar...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Upcoming Webinar on RadScheduler for WinForms

    This Thursday (April 2, 2009), I will be presenting a webinar on the RadScheduler for WinForms.  I will demonstrating some of the features and benefits that you can see in the RadScheduler.    In this webinar, Telerik Evangelist John Kellar will introduce you to Telerik's RadScheduler for WinForms. Have you had a need to build scheduler functionality into your applications? If so, then this webinar is for you. The RadScheduler offers a variety of features like iCal support, multiple view options and an out of the box appointment dialogs.  John will provide an overview of RadScheduler and help you understand all...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    WinForms RadGridView's new clothes

      In our latest release – Q1 2009 – we were focused mostly on addressing known issues and minimizing the memory footprint of RadGridView for WinForms.  However, we managed also to steal some time and redesign all of RadGridView’s themes. Some optimizations in our TPF framework helped us with this task. One of the heaviest operations in GDI+ is clipping. We managed to remove the clipping where it wasn’t really needed. This way we achieved two goals with a single shot: first, we got a performance boost, and second, we achieved better graphics and smoothed edges when using shapes. Our new Desert...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    WinForms Q1 2009 and some RadRibbonBar Sugar

    Now that the latest version of RadControls for WinForms was released, we decided that a blog post about the newly introduced features of the RadRibbonBar will come exactly on time. As many of you know, we worked hard on the implementation of our new and much improved layout system in the RadRibbonBar. Now we can proudly say that the migration has been successfully accomplished, and many issues related to the old layout of the Ribbon are now history. Let’s start with the resizing and positioning of the Chunks (now called Groups) within a Tab Page in the RadRibbonBar:     We have entirely redesigned...
    May 07, 2025 2 min read