Telerik blogs
  • Desktop WinForms

    Energize your Financial Apps with ChartView for WinForms. Multi-touch Charts Coming Up with Q3 2012

    Financial Charts Do you develop financial applications for WinForms? Do they need a visual boost in terms of financial charts and indicators? If the answers to these two questions are ‘yes’, then you will be definitely eager to meet the improvements in RadChartView coming in the soon-to-be-released Q3 2012. For this release we developed two types of financial series – Candlestick series and OHLC stick series. In addition, to aid the raw stick data, we have added a bunch of financial indicators that will allow end-users to easily visualize the trends exactly the way they want. Touch Support The next feature in the...
    October 11, 2012
  • Release

    New Features of RadHtmlChart for ASP.NET AJAX Ship a Month Ahead of Schedule

    With Q2 2012 release we shipped the first version of the RadHtmlChart control and, like any fledgling control, it did not have all the features you wanted to see, so we started working on them as soon as we got your feedback. We have promised we will add some of them in the Q3 2012 release (see our Roadmap), and I am glad to announce that we pushed hard and quite a lot of them are already available, far before the promised date :-) Let’s take a quick look around: Client-side Events This chart operates primarily on the client and it was inevitable that...
    September 07, 2012
  • Desktop WinForms

    Get some interactivity from your charts with RadChartView for WinForms

    I guess you are following us closely, so you are aware of the great RadChartView control introduced in Q2 2012 which aims to replace the old RadChart implementation. Today, I would like to introduce two cool RadChartView features and demonstrate how you can engage them. Namely, these features are Trackball and Selection. Trackball So, what is Trackball? Trackball displays a vertical line across the chart plot area and also displays little visual indicators (circles by default) at points where the trackball line crosses the visualization of a series object. For example when the trackball line crosses a line series line segment, a...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadHtmlChart vs. RadChart – Which ASP.NET AJAX Control to Use for My Project?

    You may have already seen it, but just in case – take a look at our new HTML5 charting control that was introduced with the Q2 2012 release of Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls. Its online demos are the perfect starting point. One may wonder what the benefits of having the new Chart over the current one are. This blog post will explain the main differences between them so that you can choose the one that fits your scenario better. First and foremost – the new RadHtmlChart renders entirely on the client through JavaScript. This is its most important performance benefit – the server no longer...
  • Release

    Load on Demand and Drill Down, Two New Features to Make Your ASP.NET AJAX OrgChart More Interactive

    The organizational chart is one of the newest controls in Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX suite and because of this we know how important it is not only to improve existing functionalities but to add new ones regularly. With Q2 2012 Telerik’s ASP.NET OrgChart control features’ collection was extended once again. I am happy to announce that two major capabilities were introduced which significantly improve the OrgChart’s performance and usability. Load on Demand Drill Down Load on Demand With Q1 2012 Node and Group collapsing came out. Load on demand continues the sequence in a logical way. Keeping the idea of different type of collapsing (Nodes/Groups), the...