Telerik & Kendo UI Blog

Once again, I am excited to announce the start of a new initiative to improve the user experience with skinning the Telerik controls. We are starting work on a new Visual Style Builder application for the ASP.NET AJAX Controls and a major upgrade of the existing application for the WinForms Controls. The Visual Style Builder will allow easy, point-and-click customization of component skins, eliminating the need to get acquainted with the front-end structure of the controls. The Visual Style Builder will also speed up development of skins across several components - you will be able to define a style once and...

Today is an exciting day for me. Scratch that. Today is an exciting day for a whole lot of people here in Telerik. For the past several months we have been tirelessly crafting the future of telerik's Charting product line. Today, my friends, is an exciting day indeed because it all goes public. The Futures release of our WPF effort has just been published here with online examples available here. Together with the Chart and Gauges controls we are also featuring a technical preview of our scheduler component of WPF. Here is a summary for all the controls included with this release: RadChart for WPF -...

When you use a tool day-in and day-out you typically want it to be accessible as quickly as possible and to launch just the way you like it, with all your favorite bells and whistles ready to go. For those of us saving the world every day with our .NET applications, Visual Studio is no exception. So here are a couple of easy tips for fine-tuning Visual Studio to get you from the icon to the code just a little bit faster, as well as a few of my own preferred features and settings. Launch Tips 1. Get rid of the splash...

With the Telerik Q2 release the Silverlight team releases the Beta version of the Rad Controls for Silverlight2. The controls are separated in 4 different assemblies:   Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation   - Window, Menu, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Cube Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input   - ComboBox, Upload, Calendar, DatePicker, NumericUpDown Telerik.Windows.Controls.MediaPlayer   - MediaPlayer. Telerik.Windows.Controls   - Range Slider, ProgressBar, WrapPanel, DockPanel, UniformGridPanel    What is the current status of the suite and where we are heading to? All of the controls are fully featured and extensively tested. We released two CTP versions of the controls before the current "Beta 1". We have got a lot of feedback from the community (a big THANKS! for that - keep it coming!) We will now continue to work...

…Or how you should manage predefined themes in Q2 2008 As mentioned previously, RadControls for WinForms is the only WinForms suite which provides WPF-like effects on the classic Windows Forms platform. This has its challenges, because the Windows Forms platform was not build with such rich visualization in mind. For example, performance suffers if too many elements are animated on the form; the form/application start up time increases with too many visual elements on the form, etc. It is our job to try and find ways to keep these times at a minimum, but keep the same rich functionality and dazzling...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls//Telerik Reporting/Sitefinity:   ASP.NET RadGrid Help topics Section 508 compliance http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grid-section-508-compliance.html   RadAjax Help topics Getting started -> How RadAjax works: Controls and Configuration http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/ajx-how-it-works.html   RadComboBox Code library entries Reside the DropDown with a mouse: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-begcmk.aspx Help topics Appearance and Styling > Tutorial: Change the appearance of the Input element http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/appearance-change-input-look-tutorial.html   RadTreeView Code library entries Drag a node to a TextArea: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bemmam.aspx Help topics Troubleshooting -> Load On Demand with server-side NodeClick http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/troubleshooting-load-on-demand-on-server-side-node-click.html   RadScheduler Knowledge base articles Using RadScheduler with AccessDataSource: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-bacm-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx Customizing the advanced template: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-badd-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx How to show all appointments in Month view: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-badb-b454T-cth-b454c-cth.aspx Help topics Client-Side Programming -> OnClientTimeSlotContextMenu http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/client-side-onclienttimeslotcontextmenu.html Client-Side Programming -> OnClientAppointmentMoveStart...

With dependency properties being so heavily used across the WPF platform, there is a good chance that sooner or later you will get bitten by this issue my colleague Hristo Deshev and I were debugging not long ago. Some heads-up can't really hurt anybody so here it is;). We will declare a simple class Foo with a single collection dependency property (note that this is a reference type). We will also supply our brand new property with a default value through the convenient DependecyProperty.Register(...) method: Let us put our class to the test by creating two Foo instances and adding a single item...

This is a great technique for those of you who need to run a service on your web server, but are using shared hosting and don't have the ability to do so. I first saw this technique at one of Rob Howard's TechEd sessions earlier this year. If you have the need to do some routine processing, typically you would consider writing a Windows service. For example, if you were running a web application which pulls data from multiple other sites and web services you might want to periodically load that data into a database and serve it from there rather...

I've made three demos on how to use RadGrid templates to build completely client-side edit and update: - server-side GridTemplateColumn - server-side GridTableView ItemTemplate - client-side GridTableView ItemTemplate (ASP.NET AJAX 4.0...

I am enthusiastic to announce the launch of the Telerik Skin Exchange Program – http://www.telerik.com/skins! We have created a meeting place for community members to exchange home-grown skins for the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX components. We know a lot of you have come up with amazing designs for our components and wanted to enable a platform to show these off and help the community. Seeing the tremendous support you guys give to each other every day on our forums and code library, I am confident you will take up on the initiative so we can build up a useful new resource...