Telerik blogs
  • Web

    API changes introduced by the new CoverFlow control

    If you missed the buzz, the Telerik team plans to distribute a beta release introducing new controls that will be officially included in the Q3 2009 release scheduled for November 2009. For those of you that didn’t have the opportunity to get familiar with what the new CoverFlow offers, take a look at my previous blog post here.   One of the new pieces that will be part of the pack is the new CoverFlow control. It is important to note that from Q3 2009 all previous versions of the control will be replaced with this one, which is specifically built for...
    September 14, 2009 4 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Multiple Resources, Resource Grouping and TimeLineView in Telerik Scheduler for SL/WPF

    Once again we kept our promise and we are happy to introduce to you the Resource Grouping of Telerik Scheduler for Silverlight and WPF - the most requested feature for this control.   Multiple Resources, Resource Grouping,new design of Edit Appointment dialog and TimeLineView are the new features coming with Beta1 release due in the second half of this month.   Here are a few screenshots on the upcoming new features:     Stay tuned to see what else we have prepared for you in the upcoming Beta release!
    September 10, 2009 1 min read
  • Web

    Drop-Down Menu Button with Telerik ContextMenu for Silverlight

    Sometimes, when a button is clicked we want to display a drop-down menu with options. This is handy interface, usually present in toolbars, but sometimes - as standalone buttons, like the Save As button in the the VS2008 Save As dialog. Sometimes the drop-down buttons consist of two parts – action and menu, and are called split buttons. In this post I will demonstrate how to achieve the drop-down menu button part. If you need a split button, just add another button and keep track of what was the last clicked menu item. Note, that with Q3 2009 we will...
    September 08, 2009 3 min read
  • Web

    Using the RadDocking control with Prism

    Prism can be thought of as a set of libraries that help Silverlight applications to be scalable and testable. It has a number of features (modularity, view regions and commanding) that help with this. A common scenario is to use Prism with a Docking control. You may want to create a shell with a Docking control and to mark some of the pane groups as regions and to use panes (or their content) as views. In this article we will create a sample application that accomplishes this scenario with the RadDocking control for Silverlight. We will need one additional step to...
    August 31, 2009 4 min read
  • Release

    Watch out the flow is coming! – Telerik CoverFlow for Silverlight 3

    If you think the light from the Silverlight 3 release has already gone dim, then you should wait to see the new blast that the Telerik team has prepared just to make sure that once again everybody is looking in the same direction. In this article I will introduce one of the new controls that are already extending the enormous capabilities of Silverlight 3.         One of the buzz words that came up with Silverlight 3 is the Plane Projection that allows you to render UI element in a plane projection. We have been passionately waiting for this and...
    August 28, 2009 2 min read