Telerik blogs
  • Release

    RadOrgChart for ASP.NET AJAX levels up in Q1 2012

    Introduction One of the newest members to the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX family, Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Organizational Chart control is still green and growing. In its first release we equipped it with the most crucial tools it needed to be successful in the outside world. In Q1 2012 RadOrgChart leveled up and added two other important tools to its belt: Drag-and-drop in both binding modes - simple and group-enabled; Expand/collapse behavior for nodes; Drag-and-drop Simple Binding When data-bound to simple hierarchical data the user can reorder nodes (people) in the hierarchy by being guided by nice visual clues depicting the availability and the result of the current drop...
    March 07, 2012 3 min read
  • Release

    Structured Content Editing with RichTextBox for Silverlight/WPF

    Or How to Store Semantic Information In Documents Through Custom Annotations When we develop RadRichTextBox’s API, we always try to make it as extensible as possible. One of the most popular demands was the option to store “meta” information about parts of the document which is not directly visible by the user. The technique that most developers attempted to implement was to extend the document model and use custom document elements (Spans, Paragraphs, etc.). This approach, however, is not quite reliable, because RadDocument controls the lifecycle of all document elements while editing the content in RadRichTextBox and the document structure is only...
    March 06, 2012 4 min read
  • Release

    What's New in the RichTextBox for Silverlight/WPF?

    The first release of 2012 is already a fact and even though this Q has been shorter due to the shift in the release dates which Todd Anglin blogged about, we managed to include some long-awaited improvements and new features. The first and most important change is that RadRichTextBox now supports multiple sections in the document. To see how it works, you can open the Silverlight demo, choose the Page Layout tab from the RibbonUI and click “Breaks”. Inserting a section break will split the current section into two, providing the option to format the two parts differently. Section breaks are extremely...
    March 05, 2012 2 min read
  • Release

    Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls Support Visual Studio 11 Beta from Day One!

    Unless you missed it somehow, last week Microsoft released the public preview of Windows 8 along with the beta of Visual Studio 11. They are both available for download right now and we encourage you to check out the tiled future :). If you already did that and you are still wondering if it's possible to build normal ASP.NET AJAX web applications using the new Win and VS releases, then this blog post will be helpful to you! First of all, a new build of the Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls is available in your accounts, specifically targeting Visual Studio 11 beta! The features...
    March 05, 2012 2 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Native Binary Excel Export Made Its Way to Our ASP.NET TreeList

    Q1 2012 brings yet another popular export format to the already rich set of TreeList features. This time, we added support for the Microsoft Excel format. The exported files are based on the binary BIFF standard and hereby they are fully compatible with virtually all versions of Microsoft Excel and most of the XLS BIFF compatible software. Another benefit is that you will be able to access the output file using the widely popular OleDB Jet provider. Similar to the PDF export, you can apply custom styles in two different ways – using the built-in item styles (ItemStyle, HeaderStyle and the...
    March 02, 2012 1 min read