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  • Desktop WPF

    Animation with RadChart for WPF.

    Hi everyone, My name is Velin Angelov. I am a member of Telerik's Charting team and here I am going to write about a feature of the RadChart for WPF which you might find useful while having fun with it. RadChart for WPF was shipped with the 2008.Q3 release and one feature all of the charts have in common is being animated. From this point on there are three options: You are absolutely happy (as you probably will) with the default animation settings provided by RadChart. In this case you simply keep on coding. You totally disagree with the way RadChart is animated and...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Look Ma, I’m on TV!

    Seems I’ve gotten my 15 minutes of fame after all (more like 5). During PDC’08 Todd and I had the chance to meet with Adam Kinney from Microsoft and talk about one of the coolest new telerik products – the WPF Charts and Gauges. The video is now up on Channel 9 and can be accessed here. In the mean while we pulled off our first release and the charts and gauges are now a part of the WPF controls suite. You can see them in all their splendor here. If you are excited about the charts as we are – share...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Can your grid control do this?

        In “First Look at Silverlight 2” Scott Gu showed how easy is to change the visual appearance of a Silverlight application using the standard features of the Silverlight Grid control: While reading the blog, it occurred to me that it would be very easy to achieve similar effects with RadGridView for WinForms. With the latest version of RadGridView you can change the row layout using different view definitions in a very simplistic and easy way:     Using parts and ideas from Scott’s article, I compiled a small application that gets a list of article from digg.com via web services and shows them in RadGridView...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    New Reporting rendering engine - a foundation for what it is to come next year

    Hi guys! We suppose that you have already downloaded our Q3 version (released last week) and you're enjoying the new rendering engine. For those of you who missed what's new, I'll list it here once again: Official release of the Project Upgrade Wizard - no more upgrade hassles. Our Upgrade Wizard would take care of that for you. New Report Rendering Engine, offering:   Excellent rendering performance The new rendering engine optimizes the usage of system resources (memory consumption and processor loads) during data processing and ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    REST Service Calls with grid client binding

      Inspired by Nikhil's blog post about C# 4.0 - Dynamic REST Service Calls I've made small demo how to bind the grid to Flickr REST API  and here is the result:   You can configure the service to return JSON and deserialize the result: and since we don't need all the data you can use LINQ to turn the result into more understandable objects: Enjoy!   [Live | Download]...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web

    Automatic insert, update and delete with UserControl edit form for the grid

    I'm happy to announce that we've implemented support for IBindableControl for the grid and now you can edit, update and insert with minimal coding if your user control implements this interface: Also using the power of LINQ you can fill the dictionary in a single line of code. Enjoy! [Live | Download]...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    RadControls for WPF official release

    With the Q3 edition of RadControls for WPF Telerik has officially included in the suite three major controls - RadScheduler, RadChart and RadGauge. Thus, Telerik puts the accent on rich data visualization and interactivity by introducing powerful and completely stylable and customizable controls.   RadControls for WPF features a new theming mechanism for the Slider, ProgressBar, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Calendar and DatePicker controls to make them consistent with the rest of the controls in the suite. Also , a new skin (Vista) has been added to further enrich the UI capabilities of the controls and let you create consistent LOB applications. Not only we introduced new...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    Enhancing Your WinForms UI with HTML-like Formatting

    Until recently our Windows Forms offering didn’t have support for HTML-like rich text formatting, so typical for web applications. With the Q3 release shipped on November 5 this has changed. This release of RadControls for WinForms has the HTML-like formatting capabilities on a framework level. What does it mean? Well, as of now every VisualElement descendent is capable of rich text formatting - Labels, Buttons, RadCalendar, RadGridView, etc. The implementation is very simple, especially if your users are familiar with HTML. To turn on the rich formatting behavior you must begin your text with an <html> tag; use <size=[+|-]value> to set...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight official release

    After we launched the RC1 release shortly after Microsoft published Silverlight RTW it was high time for us to start preparing for the official edition of the RadControls for Silverlight suite. Here it is, with Q3 2008, RadControls for Silverlight is officially released.   RadControls for Silverlight is the richest set of tools to help you develop Silverlight applications, which is a solid foundation for the next-generation of line-of-business applications. RadControls for Silverlight includes over 20 UI controls that can be used in pure Silverlight applications or as parts of existing ASP.NET applications. Sharing the same codebase with our WPF components, the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    TreeView in a ComboBox dropdown using RadControls for Silverlight

    As far as I can tell from the experience of my colleagues with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, one of the common feature requests for RadComboBox and RadTreeView is combining them into one piece. Recently we started to receive similar requests for RadComboBox and RadTreeView for Silverlight. Placing a TreeView in a ComboBox sometimes makes a lot of sense, so I decided to research the best way to do it.   The first, the simplest and most obvious way is to place a RadTreeView as content of RadComboBox: <input:RadComboBox> <nav:RadTreeView  ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ItemTemplate}"  ItemsSource="{StaticResource ItemsSource}" /></input:RadComboBox> This works, but it has one important limitation: RadComboBox cannot...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read