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    The Minesweeper Game Done in Silverlight 1.1

    Silverlight is a Blast! And instead of trying to convince you, we present you a well-known game in its silverlit clothes. The minesweeper! It adds to other games that in the past several weeks have shown the ease with which you can use Silverlight to create online interaction and games. It uses no fancy frameworks but underlines the simplicity and straightforwardness of Silverlight development. The number of mines and the rows/columns are configurable. To mark a mine - instead to click with the right mouse button, click with the left mouse button while holding the CTRL or SHIFT key. Try the game: http://blogs.telerik.com/demos/minesweeper/ Get the code here: The...
    November 09, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadScheduler - Localization with resource files

    This movie shows how to create custom localization with resource files. The resource file allows you not only to set a specific culture but also to customize the localization attributes such as HeaderDay, HeaderMonth, etc...For more information, refer to Using Global Resource Files help topic. ...
    November 01, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Setting appearance using Themes

    RadControls "Prometheus" can be easily configured to use ASP.Net 2.0 Themes the same way you would do for the ordinary ASP.Net controls. A chosen theme can be shared among multiple controls and pages and thus make group re-configuration extremely easy. You can see the following video which demonstrates how to configure RadEditor, RadWindow and RadCalendar "Prometheus" controls to use the WebBlue skin from a Theme: Setting Appearance Using Themes.
    October 24, 2007
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    Automatic operations with RadGrid and SqlDataSource control

    Although many of you are probably familiar with this project from the code library section on our site, I thought it is worth the effort to demonstrate once again in public how easily (with literally zero lines of code) you can configure RadGrid to perform automatic data-editing operations and refresh the data in the database directly. The video I have prepared for this purpose is available in this section on our site, below is the direct link: http://www.telerik.com/ClientsFiles/product.videos/32/ On a side note, for Martin and all the others who had problems with the screen size of the Excel-like filtering video posted before, I am pleased to...
    October 17, 2007
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    Shortcut on Silverlight 1.1

    Here at Telerik we are constantly working with the new cutting edge technologies. As Silverlight 1.1 alpha hit the road we were keen to research all the new things we can do with this new technology ... But there was one little problem - the lack of help and documentation. Our experience with WPF help us a lot to get into the new technology, but Silverlight is a new platform and it has its differences from WPF. So when we were contacted by the O'Reilly to write a book for Silverlight 1.1 we decided that this will be a very good opportunity...
    October 17, 2007