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Desktop WinForms
Smooth scrolling in RadGridView for WinForms
Up until Q3 2009, RadGridView for WinForms used a scrollbar in every child view when in hierarchy mode. This however can be a problem when there are many nested levels, i.e. it can lead to a situation where you do not have enough visual estate to scroll through the hierarchy: In our latest release RadGridView is using only one scrollbar that scrolls the root level and all the child views, with no performance loss whatsoever, because we have optimized the scrolling mechanism to be better performing and smoother: Since there are cases where using nested scrollbars is the better option, we still offer the...November 06, 2009 -
Release
Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for RadControls for WinForms updated to Q3 2009
Last week we updated the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for RadControls for WinForms on CodePlex with the mighty Q3 2009 versions of our WinForms tools. A few compatibility issues were resolved with this update as well. If you are using the WinForms CAB kit, just visit http://telerikcab.codeplex.com/ to download the latest update. Enjoy!...November 06, 2009 -
Release
Introducing the RadScrollablePanel
A common question that we received from our customers regarding our RadPanel control was whether the scrollbars can be customized so that they are consistent with the current theme used in the application. Since RadPanel supports the standard Windows Forms scrolling behavior and the customization of the standard scrollbars is basically impossible, we decided, by using some nice trickery, to introduce a new control that provides the RadPanel functionality and also supports theming of the scrollbars. Here is a picture of what we achieved: In a nutshell, the RadScrollablePanel control is composed of two RadScrollBars and a panel that represents the container for the controls added....November 05, 2009 -
Web
Data-binding Telerik CoverFlow for Silverlight + some Routed Commands goodness
With our still hot Q3 2009 release we introduced a brand new RadCoverFlow control, that was rewritten from scratch in order to be able to exploit some new features in Silverlight 3 that improved both its performance and appearance. We are now using matrix projections to transform the items’ content and pixel shader effects to render the reflection. This allows us to show and properly transform any element in RadCoverFlow, including UI Elements, controls and video, as well as instantly synchronize the reflection. This major change in the control caused major changes in its API and usage patterns. We provide some...November 05, 2009 -
Release
RadControls for WinForms Q3 2009 - RadDock Tab Alignment and DragDrop Automation
For the Q3 2009 release, we have added a few important new features to the RadDock. The first of these features is the ability to set the tab strip alignment and/or visibility on DocumentTabStrip and ToolTabStrip instances. The second feature we have added is the ability to implement your own manual drag and drop behavior. Tab Alignment and Visibility When working with ToolTabStrips and DocumentTabStrips in the Q3 release, you will notice that we have added two new properties. The first of these properties, TabStripAlignment, allows you to set the alignment of tabs within their parent TabStrip. The second of these properties, TabStripVisible, ...November 05, 2009 -
Desktop WinForms
RadControls for WinForms Q3 2009 - HTML-like Text Formatting
The RadMarkupEditor The RadMarkupEditor is a new WYSIWYG editor that has been added to the underlying framework of the RadControls to simplify the task of editing text in HTML-like markup. This editor is available for all Telerik WinForms controls that support HTML-like text formatting. Accessing the RadMarkupEditor is as simple as locating the text property of a particular RadControl in it's properties window. If the RadControl supports Html-like markup, the text property will contain a dropdown button. Clicking on the dropdown button will display a dropdown with a "Start MarkupEditor" button on it. Clicking this button will display the RadMarkupEditor....November 05, 2009 -
Mobile
What's new in RadControls for Silverlight Q3.2009
Our biggest Silverlight release - Q3.2009 is now officially released. We added ten (yes ten!) new controls to the Silverlight suite: RibbonBar TileView OutlookBar FluidContentControl Book TreeListView (CTP version) Map (CTP version) CoverFlow DropDown Button Split Button And not only this but we made significant performance improvements to the TreeView, TreeListView and GridView controls. Now these controls are using the new UI virtualization logic allowing them to display millions of records. For a full list of changes please check our what's new page. You can check the online demos here, read the documentation here and if you have any feedback on them - please open a support ticket here. A control with which we are...November 05, 2009 -
Desktop WinForms
RadElement Lifecycle – a WinForms TPF Story
Why new TPF improvement? Knowing that the faster an application loads, the better the overall User Experience is, we put serious efforts in optimizing our presentation framework as much as possible. Since Q3 2009, RadElement, the smallest visual unit in Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) has been given its own lifecycle. The major benefit of this new improvement is significant boost during the loading and disposing stages. Simple tests prove that controls load and dispose between 50% up to 300% faster, depending on the depth of the corresponding element tree, hosted on each control. Some Technical Stuff A RadElement...November 04, 2009 -
Desktop WinForms
RadScheduler for WinForms data binding and occurrence exceptions
The big [new] feature for Q3 2009 release in RadScheduler for WinForms has got to be the resource grouping functionality. There are, however, numerous other improvements that also deserve attention, such as data binding. Some of you may remember that in its first release the WinForms Scheduler had just basic support for binding to appointment data. Later we extended this functionality to support storing associations to resources in the data source. Well, the Q3 2009 release brings to RadScheduler support for binding to exceptions (through the SchedulerBindingDataSource) out-of-the-box. No, these are not exceptions as in “C# exceptions”...November 04, 2009 -
Web ASP.NET MVC
Using T4MVC strongly-typed helpers with Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
If you want fast and strongly-typed access to your controller actions, the T4 helpers by David Ebbo are a real treasure. Since we couldn’t provide an support for them out-of the box (after all, the helper classes are generated), here is a small extension method that allows their usage as shown in the screenshot above. using System.Web.Mvc; using Telerik.Web.Mvc; using Telerik.Web.Mvc.Infrastructure; using Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI; public static class NavigationItemBuilderExtensions { public static NavigationItemBuilder<TItem, TBuilder> Action<TItem, TBuilder> (this NavigationItemBuilder<TItem, TBuilder> instance, ActionResult action) where TItem : NavigationItem<TItem> where TBuilder : NavigationItemBuilder<TItem , TBuilder>, IHideObjectMembers { ...November 03, 2009
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