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  • Desktop WPF

    Transpose or just rows as columns

    A common scenario when displaying tabular data is to flip the axis so your rows becomes columns and vice versa. This can be easily achieved when you know the shape of your data. For example imagine we have a Customer class with 3 properties:  Name, Age and JobCode. Let’s say that we have 5 customers in our data repository. If we want to select just the names we can do something like this: IList<Customer> customers = Customer.GetAll(); var names =     new         {             Customer1 = customers[0].Name,             Customer2 = customers[1].Name,             Customer3 = customers[2].Name,             Customer4 = customers[3].Name,             Customer5 = customers[4].Name         }; Imagine that another Customer is added and suddenly...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Telerik announces the RadToolBar for Silverlight.

    With the upcoming Q1 release Telerik will include an official version of the RadToolBar control in the RadControls for Silverlight bundle. RadToolBar will mimic the functionalities and behavior of the VS toolbar with its Strip and Overflow areas.  All the items in the toolbar will jump between the strip and the overflow depending on the toolbar’s size. In addition, the developer will be able to stick items into one of these areas using a single property  - OverflowMode. RadToolBar will also support Style Selector for item containers. We pre-defined styles for many of the regular controls – button, textbox , combobox and expander. Along with...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Working with a simple RadGauge for WPF

    Presenting data to users can be done in a variety of ways, but gauges offer a unique way to present data with elegance.  Gauges are easily recognized by most users since they see them on a daily basis.  Think about when you drove to work this morning, you probably looked at your car dashboard which may have looked similar to the picture below.  You knew your speed, fuel status and a number of other important metrics at a glance.  Well, the RadGauge for WPF gives you the ability to implement this same powerful concept in your applications In this post, I...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    RadColorPicker for Silverlight

     With the upcoming release of RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2009 we are announcing a new set of color controls: RadColorPicker, RadColorSelector and RadColorPaletteView for Silverlight.  RadColorPicker is very useful in a lot of business application where a color component is needed. The control that we are building has support for the most commonly used color functionality .             Here are the top 5 features:     -  25 Preset Color Palettes : to speed up your work RadColorPicker is shipped with 25 ready-to-use color palettes like Grayscale, Web216, ReallyWebSafe, Office, etc.     -  Custom Color Palettes: You can easily define your custom colors and set them...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Announcing RadEditor for Silverlight CTP

    We are very excited  to announce that our Q1 release will feature a CTP edition of Telerik RadEditor for Silverlight. This initial version will support the most basic set of features but you can rest assured that there is a lot more cooking. RadEditor integrates three of our new controls for Silverlight – RadToolbar, RadToobarTray and RadColorPicker. The first two will give you fine-grained control over the positioning of the elements you choose to insert in your editor. The customizable RadColorPicker is used for choosing font and highlight colors and offers a well-known tool to end-users. Below you can find a non-exhaustive list of the initially supported...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read