How to get the list of available built-in skins?

[Condorito]

Hi,

Is there a way to get the list of available built-in skins without referencing a SkinManager? 

I understand that this will allow me to iterate through a SkinManager's list of skins:

Dim oChooser As RadComboBox = CType(oSkinManager.FindControl("SkinChooser"), RadComboBox)
For Each Item As RadComboBoxItem In oChooser.Items
...

However this won't work for us under certain situations because there may not be a SkinManager available when we need to find out if a skin still exists or not.
I tried to create a new RadSkinManager programmatically and then attempted to access its skin chooser, but the chooser comes back as an empty object.

Thank you for you help.

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hello Juan,

The observation and conclusions that you have made are correct and without a RadSkinManager you will not be able to retrieve all of the available skins with such approach.

However, I could suggest that you try the following, more generic, way for retrieving the list of skins:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    List<string> list = Telerik.Web.SkinRegistrar.GetEmbeddedSkinNames(typeof(RadGrid));
}

In general, it should not matter what control you are passing as parameter.

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Telerik

 

 

[Condorito]

This worked.  Thank you for your help!