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Visual Studio: “Error Creating Control”
I’ve run into this error before and last night it reared its ugly head again. You’ll find it from time to time when switching to Design View in Visual Studio to work with custom server controls. The bug is in Service Pack 1 of VS and can be quite annoying. It has been submitted to Microsoft and they claim to be working on a solution which will “fix it in subsequent releases” of Visual Studio. Unfortunately, developers (like me) don’t want their productivity to suffer while we all wait for a fix from Microsoft. So here are a couple of steps...May 27, 2021 1 min read -
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Want to help us build better Silverlight controls?
We started a survey to gain your mostly valuable feedback on your experience and expectations with the Silverlight platform and the controls we provide. Your involvement will be much appreciated and you will be awarded 1000 Telerik points for taking the survey. We want to direct our future Silverlight development into building the critical and most important blocks for your existing or future Silverlight applications. You can take the survey at: Silverlight SurveyPeopleConferences?
I was thinking about how professional conferences and the accompanying them trade shows are a great place for networking, finding out what’s hot in the industry and learning from the leading experts in the field. I still believe that conferences are very useful but I am starting to have some second thoughts about the tradeshows. Considering the myriad of online communication recourses available to companies for interacting with their customers and the community, and the global economy crisis, 2009 will be an interesting year. I decided to post this to see if you have any opinion on the subject. I think it will be interesting...May 27, 2021 1 min readWebA Tip to Play with RadControls for Silverlight Themes
There are several built-in themes in RadControls for Silverlight that I’m sure the SL developers are pretty interested in. You can easily see how the themed controls look like after building a simple Silverlight application and setting any of the predefined themes. You shouldn’t miss the themes demo that allows applying a theme of the controls by a single button click. I’d like to give you another tip and at the same time to share something from the Telerik Silverlight kitchen. The tip gives you a chance to get quickly all the controls themed in a complex application containing tens ...May 27, 2021 2 min readReleaseNew support resources search facilities on telerik.com
Greetings everyone, With the brand new look-and-feel of telerik.com we introduced for the landmark Q3 2008 release you probably noticed that the support resources searching capabilities have changed, too. Our aim was to expose intuitive and straight-forward means to browse the available resources based on their type and find the information/examples you need in a blink of an eye. In a nutshell, we would like each visitor to have the ability to search by product line and get a list of results with a leading indicator image designating the resource type (demo, help topic, knowledge base article, code library project, etc.). Since a...WebHow To: Strongly typed values for your TextBoxes
Very often you need to parse/convert TextBox Text property value to some other type however I’ve never seen any universal approach for this so far… and I’m offering you one :) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; public static class TextBoxExtensions { public static T Value<T>(this TextBox textBox) { return (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(textBox.Text))? ChangeType<T>(textBox.Text) : default(T); } public static T ChangeType<T>(object value) { return (T)Convert.ChangeType(value, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(typeof(T)) ?? typeof(T)); } } It's simple, isn't it? :)...WebRadNavigation deep linking
Deep linking is an unique feature of RadNavigation allowing you to use page navigation by simply changing the URL in the browser address bar. Now you can provide a link directly to every page from your application. Implementing this RadNavigation feature is just as easy as using the other navigation classes all you have to do is just follow the next steps: 1. Create Silverlight application. In order to use deep linking in page navigation scenario you have to make sure that any changes in the state the page is reflected to the browser’s address (bookmark). To do this you have two...May 27, 2021 2 min readDesktop WPFWPF/ Silverlight: RadGauge Layout Composition
Today I would like to highlight one of the newest controls added to the WPF / Silverlight control suites in November – the RadGauge control. RadGauge combines its rich assortment of radial, linear and numeric gauge types with very flexible layout composition abilities thus allowing you to attain a new level of data visualization quickly and easily. Let us discuss the basics of the layout composition and how it is implemented in the gauge control. There are three levels of controls that participate in the layout: RadGauge LinearGauge / RadialGauge LinearScale / RadialScale / NumericScale RadGauge is the top level class but as far as the control...May 27, 2021 3 min readWebRadControls for Silverlight Futures
RadDocking With the SP2 release of RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2008 we are introducing a community preview edition of the RadDocking control for Silverlight. You can find the build under your account at telerik.com. The download files containing the build are called Futures (RadControls_for_Silverlight_2008_3_1217_TRIAL/DEV_Futures.zip and RadControls_for_Silverlight_2008_3_1217_TRIAL/DEV_Futures.msi). You can check the online demos at: RadDocking First Look RadGridView First Look The features that are currently supported by this CTP edition of the RadDocking tool are listed below: Dockable Layouts Percentage or Absolute Height of the containers MinWidth/Width/MaxWidth constraints MinHeight/Height/MaxHeight constraints Resizable Bars AutoHideAreas DocumentHost DockingPanel SplitContainers Nested split containers Horizontal/Vertical Orientation Initial Position PaneGroups AutoHide per group Close per group Title Panes Pinnable Closable RadGridView Beta The previously released community...ReleaseRadControls for Silverlight Q3 2008 SP2
We are pretty excited with this service pack release as it comes along with the Beta edition of the RadGridView control and the first community preview of the RadDocking tool for Silverlight. You can learn more about these "Futures" build in the following blog post: RadControls for Silverlight Futures Below you can find detailed information about all the changes included in the latest service pack release of RadControls for Silverlight. We will much appreciate your feedback on the progress we made with this SP release. All your comments are welcome. To download the files please log into your telerik.com account. To see the demos follow the...
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