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  • Web

    Location Crosshair for Silverlight Chart

    Hello everyone, This blog post will demonstrate how to add location crosshair for RadChart as well as location indicator (achieved by two TextBlock-s that track the current mouse location). To achieve the crosshair functionality you will add two custom gridlines to the ChartArea (each of them parallel to one of the axes). Also, you will need three events – MouseEnter, MouseLeave and MouseMove to track the mouse cursor position and “move” the gridlines across the plot area. By handling the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events you’ll change the visibility of the gridlines to Visible and Collapsed whenever the mouse cursor enters or leaves the...
    August 12, 2011
  • Web

    Supporting a Dinosaur: Time to end IE6 support?

    Like it or not (and, frankly, I’m not sure who likes it), IE6 is not yet 100% dead. Try as is it might, the web developer community and even Microsoft have failed to put this ancient, broken browser in the dust bin more than 10 years after its...
    August 12, 2011
  • Web Mobile

    RadDataBoundListBox goes Mango in terms of scrolling performance (video included)

      Back in the days when the first WP7 developer devices were distributed to all enthusiastic developers it became clear that the out-of-the-box scrolling performance delivered by the ListBox control from the toolbox is not satisfying at all. In fact, having some richer data templates and UI virtualization all in one made the control almost unusable which forced many developers to either give up UI virtualization or simply reduce the contents of their templates to boost the scrolling performance and thus improve the end-user experience. Although the Performance Team @ Microsoft have released some nice and helpful hints on how to...
    August 10, 2011
  • Web Mobile

    RadDataBoundListBox goes Mango in terms of scrolling performance (video included)

      Back in the days when the first WP7 developer devices were distributed to all enthusiastic developers it became clear that the out-of-the-box scrolling performance delivered by the ListBox control from the toolbox is not satisfying at all. In fact, having some richer data templates and UI virtualization all in one made the control almost unusable which forced many developers to either give up UI virtualization or simply reduce the contents of their templates to boost the scrolling performance and thus improve the end-user experience. Although the Performance Team @ Microsoft have released some nice and helpful hints on how to...
    August 10, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    3 Reasons Why You Should Register for Our Special ASP.NET AJAX Webinar Series

    You’ll see Telerik’s Evangelist Carl Bergenhem build an ENTIRE e-commerce application in real time showcasing the capabilities of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX You’ll see how easy it is to take advantage of modern technologies, like jQuery, OData, Azure, HTML5/CSS3 when you use Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls You’ll get advanced tips and tricks on how to optimize the performance of your applications Did I say only 3 reasons? In case you give me 30 more seconds of your time, here’s the rest of the deal: At the end of the series not only will the attendees get the sample application’s source code in case they’d like to play...
    August 10, 2011