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  • Release

    Telerik XAMLflix Data Visualization Webinar Wrap-up

    Thank you everyone for turning out to Tuesday’s XAMLflix Data Visualization webinar, featuring the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF in action. We covered a lot of ground in this webinar, moving at a quick pace to present the wide range of Telerik Data Visualization controls with lots of hands-on coding and examples, but as those who attended can see we didn’t even have time to cover them all (yes, we do have that many first class data visualization controls in our toolbox). A Quick Recap For anyone who may have missed the webinar, here is a quick recap to entice you to watch...
    May 03, 2012 3 min read
  • Mobile

    Windows Phone 7 MVVM #7 - RadGauge

    Today’s RadControls for Windows Phone 7 MVVM post is brought to you by the smart tag: Now of course you must be wondering why a smart tag is being highlighted?  Great question!  As part of the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 suite, RadGauge is an integral data visualization component that can be used to show a variety of different information with either a linear or radial gauge model.  Perhaps the best part about RadGauge is that our development team didn’t just publish a quick component with a few properties, rather this versatile control allows you to have as many or...
    June 30, 2011 4 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Half and quarter circle RadGauge.

    Recently John showed how to create half-circle gauges and now I am glad to announce that RadGauge, both WPF and Silverlight, supports half-circle and quarter-circle styles out of the box. All you need to do is provide the correct resource through a ResourceDictionary and then use the corresponding style. The styles are named after the major geographical directions -- North, East, South and West, well we only use the first letters here - N, E, S and W. So the styles you need are <Theme>RadialGaugeHalfCircle<Direction>Style and <Theme>RadialScaleHalfCircle<Direction>Style. Check the following example - semi-circular, south-directed vista-styled gauge: And this is the XAML used:        ...
    May 12, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Making a RadGauge look like a Dial

    I have had several people ask me about whether Telerik offers a dial control.  I thought it might be interesting to try and leverage the RadGauge control to build something that looks like a dial.  Essentially the RadGauge offers all the capabilities you would need, it is just a matter of styling.  I decided to build a kitchen timer application so I could create a dial theme.  I am no artist, but I think my end result turned out pretty well.  The video below will demonstrate how I use Expression Blend to quickly get a 3D (ok, 3Dish, again I...
    May 06, 2009 1 min read
  • Release

    RadControls for WPF &ndash; Q1 2009 Service Pack released

    This week Telerik released a service pack for the Q1 2009 RadControls for WPF.  You can get the full details about the release here (http://www.telerik.com/versionnotes.aspx?id=1896), but I wanted to point out a few highlights that might be of interest.   RadGridView A number of features regarding exporting including the addition of ExcelML, an Exporting event TAB navigation improvements Addition of the GridViewComboBox column and much more   RadGauge Semi-circle and Quadrant-like styles for Radial Gauges both of which look very sleek.   RadChart The Stacked Line and Stacked Spline Chart Types were added to the RadChart available types. RadColorPicker The Color Picker control allows the users to choose a color from more than 20...
    April 16, 2009 2 min read