How do I create a new UserControl based on Rad technology?

[Preston Kitzmann]

I would like to create a new a new user control taht consists of a RadLabel and RadCombo box control. When I click add User Control, I do not see a template for a "Telerik Rad User Control". If I create a regular user control and try to change it's inheritance from UserControl to RadControl or even RadCustomControl I can't work with the result. Suggestions on how to do this?

[Nikolay]

Hello Preston,

You can find the answer to this question in your support ticket Creating custom Rad based controls. In case there are others interested in the same topic, they can refer to the paragraph below:

The purpose of the UserControl class is to host several controls related to each other logically. When you change the UserControl class with RadControls, you actually break the user control behavior and you should not expect to get something which resembles a user control. If you want to develop a custom RadControl, you should use RadElements instead of RadControls. Please refer to the documentation that ships with RadControls for WinForms suite: Start >> Programs >> Telerik >> RadControls for WinForms [version] >> Documentation. The article that concerns the topic of interest is: Telerik Presentation Framework >> Getting Started >> Getting Started (ms-help://telerik.winforms.2010.1/telerik.winforms.telerikpresentationframework/GettingStarted.html).

In case you do not want to develop a custom RadControl, but you want to use the official RadControls, just place them in a standard UserControl instance.

Greetings,
Nikolay
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