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  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    RadChart for Silverlight in ASP.NET MVC Application

    The purpose of this blog post is to show how to incorporate RadChart for Silverlight in an ASP.NET MVC application. Manol has already shown how to do this for ASP.NET and things are not much different for ASP.NET MVC. Let’s start with a simple Silverlight application with a single RadChart. For simplicity, I will populate it with a list of numbers, you can also use any of the techniques, supported by RadChart. The code is as simple as this XAML: <telerik:RadChart x:Name="RadChart1" /> And C#: RadChart1.ItemsSource = new double[] { 3d, 4d, 6d };   I will create two write-only properties of the Silverlight user control -- ShowItemLabels and SeriesType. They are marked with  ScriptableMemberAttribute so...
    October 01, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Using nested complex objects with ASP.NET MVC editor templates

    This may be common knowledge but I failed to quickly find the relevant info when it hit me. In short the default editor template generated by ASP.NET MVC 2 ignores any nested complex properties of your model. Here is a short example which demonstrates the case:   Model: public class Customer{ public int ID { get; set; } public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; }} public class Address{ public string Street { get; set; } public string City { get; set; }} Controller: public class HomeController : Controller{ // // GET: /Home/ public ActionResult Index() { return View(new Customer { ...
    September 30, 2010
  • Web

    How to: Databind Telerik’s ToolBar

    In this post we will go through a scenario for databinding the RadToolBar control. Here is the end result: And the demo project with everything included: ToolBarMVVM.zip How to databind the ToolBar? The ToolBar is an ItemsControl and can be databound to any IEnumerable, but it is preferable to bind it to an observable collection since any changes in it will be reflected by the ToolBar. Since there is no ToolBarItem, because ToolBar may contain variety of other controls, we will use DataTemplateSelector class to help us determine the template for each item inside the ToolBar: public class ToolBarTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector     {         public override DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, DependencyObject container)         {             if (item...
    September 28, 2010
  • Web

    How to: Telerik’s TabControl for Silverlight

    Let’s go through implementing several scenarios for the TabControl with quick, short explanations:    1. How to databind the TabControl?    2. How to enable drag-rearrange of items?    3. How to animate rearranging items?    4. How to add a Close Button to the TabItems using a Command?    5. How to animate content changes?    6. How to add a “New Tab” button when databound?    7. How to animate item add / removes? Here is the end result:    And the demo project with everything included:  tabcontrol-howto-demos.zip And of course the details, in short - How to databind the TabControl? The TabControl is a standard ItemsControl and can be databound to...
    September 28, 2010
  • Web

    Some tricks with MEF up the sleeve of RadRichTextBox for Silverlight

    In Q2 we introduced the first official version of RadRichTextBox for Silverlight. In this blog post we want to share with you one of the main principles which we have followed while developing our brand new rich text editor for Silverlight - total extensibility. One of the key features which we have included is the ability to import/export from/to various document formats. For the first release we have already included some of the most widely used formats, such as .html/.docx/.xaml/.txt and in the next releases there are still more to come. As MEF is a wonderful technology, we have built...
    September 28, 2010