Telerik blogs
  • Mobile

    How to Build a Picture Gallery app for Windows Phone - Part 2

    In this second part of the picture gallery blog series we'll discuss how information is being passed between pages and how favorites are persisted to the phone's flash memory. If you haven't read the first part of this blog series, be sure to also check out the first part as well. Passing state When navigating between pages we need a mechanism to tell the new page what it will be visualizing. There are two ways to achieve this. One is to pass information between pages as parts of the query string in the page’s Uri. This is a rather limited approach and in...
    September 20, 2012
  • Mobile

    How to Build a Picture Gallery app for Windows Phone – Source Code Available

    Software development, like many other things, is learned by studying theory and applying that theory to practice. While practicing however, it is also a good idea to learn existing software to reinforce the theory and also learn a trick or two that are not mentioned in the books.  With this in mind we decided to create a complete sample app for Windows Phone that will be free to download and study in order to help you with your Windows Phone development. It is a Picture Gallery app that demonstrates how to create a native Windows Phone client for Flickr or another...
    September 13, 2012
  • Productivity

    Let's Get it Started - The New JustCode Getting Started Wizard in Action

    How many times have you installed freshly downloaded software and wondered where and how to really start using it? Yeah, we’ve experienced that a lot, too. Having that frustration in mind, we created the JustCode Getting Started Wizard. It’s the new non-obtrusive, quick introduction and setup tool, that shows you the main JustCode features together with two short configuration steps to help you start using JustCode right away.   The wizard will appear only once upon fresh installation of JustCode. You won’t see it anymore once you’ve gone through the setup process. You can also close it manually anytime and invoke it...
    July 25, 2012
  • Web

    Gantt View Tutorial

    Today is Wednesday, and that means another XAMLFlix tutorial – tutorials based on the XAMLFlix video series.  Today’s Gantt View Tutorial shows you how to get started with the control, set up relations and highlighting, create a Custom Gantt task and more, with RadGanttView. Gantt View      Tutorial   Video Please feel free to share your comments and feedback. We’d especially love to hear which controls you’d like to see covered...
  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLflix Introduces RadBreadCrumb

    It's another Thursday, so by now you are anxiously awaiting the next installment of XAMLflix. Today we're diving into the navigation controls a bit to bring you RadBreadCrumb, a unique control allowing for an experience very similar to the explorer bar that you find in windows. Complete with the ability to display icons, a built-in history journal, and easy support for hierarchical navigation, RadBreadCrumb offers an intuitive way to easily navigate structured data while taking up a minimum of screen real estate. For a quick recap, XAMLflix = Videos + Projects covering all of the controls in both the RadControls for Silverlight and...
    April 12, 2012