Telerik blogs
  • Web

    Application Library Caching in RadControls for Silverlight

    As people become more aware of the fantastic things you can do with Silverlight, they’ve also realized one of the downsides of this can be increased XAP size.  The default way that Silverlight handles a XAP is to include all the required assemblies into that single compressed file.  This isn’t that bad when you’re working with a barebones Silverlight project, but once you start adding in different controls or 3rd party assemblies you are increasing your XAP size quite a bit in some cases.  And as we all know, a larger XAP leads to longer load times, and although people have...
    January 04, 2010
  • Web

    Vertical Orientation of CoverFlow for Silverlight

        The feedback about our new version of CoverFlow for Silverlight has been great! Thank you guys for pointing out all these small issues and problems that had to be polished since we introduced a new beta CoverFlow for Silverlight 3 back in September. After the core functionality of the control is successfully integrated in our Silverlight 3 suite, we are now able to start developing new features that every grown-up CoverFlow control should possess :) Vertical Orientation     Both in our forum and support system we have received numerous requests for vertical orientation of the CoverFlow control. That is why, with our 2009...
    December 29, 2009
  • Web

    How To: Tooltip Row Details with RadGridView for Silverlight

    In my previous blog post I explained how to display RadGridView Row Details with a RadWindow. Several days after the post was published I received a suggestion to create another sample that will be showing Row Details in a mouse-over tooltip fashion. And guess what. Christmas came earlier this year. The full credit for coming up with this brilliant idea goes to my friend and colleague Kalin Milanov, our Front-end Developer. He decided to edit the GridViewRow ControlTemplate and removed the DetailsPresenter from the spot it usually occupies under the cells. He then placed it inside a ToolTip: 1: <ToolTipService.ToolTip> 2: <ToolTip Style="{StaticResource ToolTipStyle}" ...
    December 19, 2009
  • Release

    What's new in SP1 of Telerik Reporting Q3 2009

    We are very excited to announce the availability of Telerik Reporting Q3 2009 SP1. Highlights: Full VS2010/.NET4 Support Following Telerik’s relentless pursuit to support the latest technologies, we have bettered Telerik Reporting to support VS2010. The SP1 installer adds all Reporting Items in the VS2010 toolbox, the design-time experience is the same as in VS2005/2008, and full support for the .NETFX 4.0 Client Profile has been added. The Silverlight Viewer gets the much requested parameter support, SSL support, and custom bindings for the Report Service Client. You can also change its skin by using the RadControls for Silverlight themes. We even had time to update...
    December 15, 2009
  • Release

    Telerik First to Support Microsoft Silverlight 4

      Telerik announced today that RadControls for Silverlight 4 CTP is the first UI component suite to natively support Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta and to provide support for the right mouse click feature introduced with the latest Microsoft Silverlight release. The Silverlight 4 Beta version delivers powerful capabilities to business application developers strengthening its position as the number one choice for building business applications on the Web.  RadControls ensure that developers can use RadControls for Silverlight 4 with the latest Silverlight 4 Beta version and start building their applications today. With the Silverlight 4 Beta release Microsoft announced support for conventional desktop interaction models through new features such as right-click context...
    December 14, 2009