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  • Web

    Comparing Generic Types

        Today I was dealing with the problem of comparing generic types in Silverlight. After researching the problem I found many similar issues for which I couldn't find any straightforward solution on the web. So here we go - a post on the issue how to compare generic types. First, let’s say we have a simple generic class which is composed of two generic properties A and B, and a method that we will later use to compare these two properties. Moreover, I will constraint the class to invoke the constructor of the generic type argument by using where T : new()      public class GenericClass<T> where T : new()       {...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    Passing parameters to a UserControl inside RadWindow for Silverlight

    I just wrote a simple application that demonstrates how to databind a treeview to a dummy data source and edit its items in a UserControl, placed in a RadWindow. You could see my other blog posts for examples with web service binding and upgrade the application to suit your needs. To accomplish the requirements, we need to add a property that will contain the edited data item on the UserControl. When the selection in the TreeView changes, we will update that property with the new selection and then open the RadWindow. The UserControl will create a copy of the data item...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Release

    Announcing the Edge Of Dev

    I would like to introduce a new endeavor called "Edge Of Dev". The Edge Of Dev will essentially be me sharing video content that I capture from around the development community.  This may be interviews, presentations, open spaces or other content of interest.  My hope is that the Edge Of Dev will provide an additional resource for relevant technical information to help you stay informed about what is happening in the development community.  The first episode is available on the Edge of Dev website (http://www.edgeofdev.com) so I hope you will take a moment to check it out. This week I am at...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    WPF: Customizing the chart series appearance in RadChart

    RadChart comes with a versatile collection of preset themes (Summer, Vista, Office). At times you may wish to use one of the predefined themes but customize its appearance a bit to fit your specific scenario / application and the control provides easy mechanism to achieve the desired effect. RadChart uses the concept of style palettes in order to style the various chart series. There are distinct style palettes for the various series types (Line, Bar, Pie, etc.) and each palette can contain as many style elements as you want -- the first style is applied to the first chart series of...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web

    Marketing and Silverlight, configuring cross-domain banners

    I have been part of Telerik’s Silverlight team for almost a year now, and I too well know that our marketing team is just two floors away to say anything bad about marketing.  So I will just say that now having Silverlight 2 in its official version out, marketing mix should adopt one more P in its four P’s concept, Ptechnology. That is why, I will try to explain this topic step by step, so that all marketing guys attracted by the name of this topic can delete the first paragraph and give it to their development teams for consideration....
    May 27, 2021 3 min read