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  • Web

    Navigation for CoverFlow

    The Silverlight team decided to remove the ScrollBar control that used to be part of CoverFlow's control template. One of the reasons behind this decision is the easiness by which you can now, using Silverlight 3 element binding, create your own navigation. To learn more about all changes introduced by the beta version check my previous blog post here. This article explains in details how to create your own navigation using a range control, e.g. one that inherits from the RangeBase class. The first thing we need to do is to declare a CoverFlow control with some items in a straight-forward...
    October 06, 2009 3 min read
  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART II [example: Conditional formatting of cells in RadGridView for WPF and Silverlight]   Lets say we have a list of products and we need to mark higher prices (>15.00)  with a red color. Something like :     First lets try it with RadGridView for WPF : We have to create a small IValueConverter. It will take care to convert the value of the price to the appropriate color: 1: public class PriceToColorConverter : IValueConverter 2: { 3: public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo...
    October 03, 2009 6 min read
  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART I [example: Adding an ‘Insert new row’ button to RadGridView ] Certain scenarios require adding additional behaviors and/or visuals to RadGridView. Implementing these as integrated features in RadGridView is not always appropriate as they may serve quite specific client scenarios or may require customization beyond the power of a common integrated feature. According to the canons of WPF and Silverlight such tasks should be easily achieved by modifying the default control template and adding the necessary visuals (e.g. user controls with some additional logic included). My experience with clients shows that such approach is sometimes kind-of frustrating as it often involves...
    October 01, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Sorting, Filtering, Grouping and Aggregating on all CPU cores using RadGridView for WPF and PLINQ

    As some of you may already know the Q2 release of RadGridView for WPF ships with a brand new “data engine” entirely based on LINQ. This means that all data operations including sorting, filtering, grouping, aggregating and paging will be pushed down to the IQueryProvider when RadGridView is bound to an IQueryable. For example if you are using LinqToSql, LinqToEntities or OpenAccess ORM all gird operations are executed on the SQL server using the magic of LINQ providers. Staying on the cutting edge I decide to try out PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and enable RadGridView to execute its data operations on all available CPU cores. PLINQ...
    September 23, 2009 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Windows 7 Theme for RadControls

    My guess is you have probably tested Windows 7. I will even go further and assume you liked how it looks and feels. Well … we like it too, even more we decided to bring the Windows 7 stunning visuals to RadControls for Silverlight and WPF.   I give you the first sneak peek screenshot of Windows 7 Theme:   Windows 7 Theme will let you perfectly blend your applications with the best looking Windows to date. The theme has already been tested in our new ? product and is designed to handle a wide array of complex business cases.   Windows 7 Theme will be...
    September 15, 2009 1 min read