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    WebAii Testing Framework Support for Extended Silverlight RadControls

    There is about a month left to the major Q3 release and the free Web Automation Framework has been steadily evolving. We have just released an important update I highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in the easy test automation for both ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight based applications with or without RadControls on the board. The list of release notes is quite long including updates to all the components – the WebAii core framework, the product installer, WebAii RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight control wrappers. There are significant improvements especially in the Silverlight automation. Here I’d like ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Performance Optimization

    For those of you who have missed the live webinar last week a recording is now available on Telerik TV. There are plenty of tips how to optimize your ASP.NET AJAX applications and especially those with RadGrid....
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Navigation for CoverFlow

    The Silverlight team decided to remove the ScrollBar control that used to be part of CoverFlow's control template. One of the reasons behind this decision is the easiness by which you can now, using Silverlight 3 element binding, create your own navigation. To learn more about all changes introduced by the beta version check my previous blog post here. This article explains in details how to create your own navigation using a range control, e.g. one that inherits from the RangeBase class. The first thing we need to do is to declare a CoverFlow control with some items in a straight-forward...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART II [example: Conditional formatting of cells in RadGridView for WPF and Silverlight]   Lets say we have a list of products and we need to mark higher prices (>15.00)  with a red color. Something like :     First lets try it with RadGridView for WPF : We have to create a small IValueConverter. It will take care to convert the value of the price to the appropriate color: 1: public class PriceToColorConverter : IValueConverter 2: { 3: public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Web Desktop

    Adding additional power to RadGridView for Silverlight with attached behaviors

    PART I [example: Adding an ‘Insert new row’ button to RadGridView ] Certain scenarios require adding additional behaviors and/or visuals to RadGridView. Implementing these as integrated features in RadGridView is not always appropriate as they may serve quite specific client scenarios or may require customization beyond the power of a common integrated feature. According to the canons of WPF and Silverlight such tasks should be easily achieved by modifying the default control template and adding the necessary visuals (e.g. user controls with some additional logic included). My experience with clients shows that such approach is sometimes kind-of frustrating as it often involves...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read