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RadDock
Using Singleton forms in MDI scenario with RadDock
Explains the case of singleton in RadDock

Docking 'Singleton' forms in RadDock
Due to high demand of a singleton scenario with RadDock, we have created and article which explains how it can be achieved:

CodedUI

Build stronger applications with Coded UI Tests for WinForms. Today.
All four levels of CodedUI are not supported by RadControls for WinForms

Overview of CodedUI support
Get a basic idea of what is CodedUI

Requirements of CodedUI
See what are the prerequisited to start using CodedUI

Getting started with CodedUI
A tutorial explaining how to get started with CodedUI - how to record your first test

Supported controls and actions
A list with all controls and actions supported by the controls. This list will be updated with the time.

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answered on 30 Nov 2012, 11:49 AM

New resources this week:

RadChartView

DateTime Axes
The article explains how to use DateTimeCategorical and DateTimeContinuous axes, their basic properties and of course a small sample

Logarithmic axes
Examples and information about the Logarithmic axes

Radial axes
See how to use CategoricalRadialAxes and NumericRadialAxes in RadChartView

Custom rendering
Learn how to customize the appearance of each data point in the series depending on its value in order to provide additional information about the plotted data

Updated resources:

RadChartView

Categorical Axes
Example and description of the Categorical axes

Linear Axes
Check the Linear axes properies and information

Polar Axes
Examines the possibilities of the Polar axes

PlotMode
Shows the different plot modes of the axes in RadChartView

answered on 11 Jan 2013, 12:35 PM

RadPivotGrid

New video - Getting Started with RadPivotGrid for WinForms
Telerik PivotGrid for Windows Forms is a control that empowers your applications with similar functionality to the PivotTables in MS Excel. It takes large chunks of data and summarizes it in a human readable way with the help of aggregates and field descriptors.

Themes

Creating a theme component
This article demonstrates how to isolate a theme in a separate class library project. This class library project is actually the theme component, which you can later use in your main project. This approach greatly simplifies the way of adding and removing themes to your project and helps in displaying the themes in design-time.

answered on 26 Feb 2013, 02:39 PM

RadPdfViewer
Overview, Getting Started, Structure, Manipulating programatically, Keyboard and mouse support, Printing support
RadPdfViewer is a brand new control that can natively visualize PDF documents straight in your application.

RadChartView
ScatterLine
The article demonstrates how to represent data as a line plotted against two linear axes

Multiple Axes
The highly demanded feature for multiple axes is now supported. Learn how to use it in the tutorial above.

Smart Labels
Smart labels is a built-in mechanism for resolving labels overlapping. Check out how to take advantage of this feature.

DrillDown
The drill down functionality of a chart allows users to click on a graphical element (bar, pie segment etc.), representing some data, in order to navigate to another view which contains different data than the first one.

Blogs

Are you ready for RadControls for WinForms Q1 2013?
WinForms Q1 2013 unveils PivotGrid, PDFViewer, and ChartView improvements

answered on 28 Mar 2013, 11:51 AM

Latest Blogs

Get the most out of Telerik's PDF Viewer for WinForms
RadPdfViewer enables you to easily load and display PDF documents natively in your app without using any third-party tools except Telerik’s WinForms toolbox. Thanks to its built-in UI virtualization, RadPdfViewer delivers a performant solution in every scenario. This component will come as a nice addition to your Content Management Systems and Reporting applications. The article describes the feature set of RadPdfViewer.

It’s alive and kicking! Implement animated live tiles in your WinForms application
From the Windows 8 start screen to the XBox, SkyDrive and Windows Phone – tiles seem to be everywhere. Live tiles soup up regular tiles by providing animation, imagery, interactivity, and live data displays that enhance user experience. Did you know that Windows Forms applications can take advantage of the features of live tiles? With the RadPanorama control and the RadLiveTileElement you can provide your users with their content at a glance quickly and easily. This blog post will walk you through creating a small live tiles sample, implementing and adding the tiles programmatically.

answered on 14 Jun 2013, 02:10 PM

CalculatorDropDown

Overview
A few words on the controls purpose

Control Element Structure
Explaining the element structure of the control

Customization
The article demonstrates the control's customization abilities

TrackBar
Overview
A brief overview of the control

Getting started
Walk through to getting started with RadTrackBar

Control Element Structure
Explanation of the control's element structure

Programming RadTrackBar
See the most important properties and method in the control

Modes
Explaining the different modes of the control - start from the beginning, mutli-range

Customization
The article explains how to customize the different elements in RadTrackBar

answered on 25 Jun 2013, 12:20 PM

Blog: What’s New and Awesome in Q2 2013 RadControls for WinForms Webinar Recap
Video: What is New and Awesome in Q2 2013 RadControls for WinForms
The above resources are a recap of the just passed webinar of RadControls for WinForms.

Reporting or Control Suites – What to use when – Part 1
It's a tough decision to know when it is best to use a reporting solution or when it's better to use a control suite. In part 1 of the series, we go over some of the high-level criteria that can help you along in your decision then dive into a control suite sample using live data and the RadChartView control for WinForms.

Reporting or Control Suites – What to use when – Part 2
It is a difficult decision to know when it is best to deliver a reporting solution over a control implemented solution. In part 2 of this series we dive deeper into a case where a reporting solution should be used.

answered on 05 Aug 2013, 08:57 AM

Blog Posts:

RadControls for WinForms Q2 2013 SP1 has been released with RadGanttView Beta and Visual Studio 2013 Readiness
Have a look what is in the latest release of RadControls for WinForms. A brand new RadGanttView control which provides you with the tools to implement visualizations of full projects with a user interface that is completely interactive, together with support for Visual Studio 2013 of the whole suite.

Using Telerik Control Panel as a Launch Pad
Recently an update to the Control Panel was released that provides you the ability to launch demos, solutions or actual applications for all products using just one tool.

Application analytics. You should be using it.
Wondering where to start? Telerik has the answer. Try our newest product - EQATEC Application Analytics. It will help you gather the facts, analyze the data, and concentrate your development efforts on what your users need the most. With EQATEC Application Analytics you will have a much better understanding of your software products, your market, and your customers.

answered on 15 Aug 2013, 10:00 AM

RadGanttView

GanttView
This article gives a brief introduction to the control.

Structure
Here you can find described the structure of the GanttView.

Working with data
In this section you can find out very useful articles such Data binding basics, Binding to a database, Adding new items, Link type converter and Importing XML from MS Project.

Design Time
This section shows how to use the control smart tag and also how columns items and links can be added at design time.

Context Menu
In this section articles you can find out what is the functionality of the default context menu, how to assign an individual context menu on each data item and how to modify the context menu.

Formatting
This section explains how to format the different elements in RadGanttView.

Editing
In this section you can find out how to control the editing process, how to customize editor and how to create a custom one.

Usability
This section describes how the end users can navigate using the mouse or keyboard.

answered on 17 Oct 2013, 08:00 AM

NEW Help articles

RadGanttView

Printing Support
RadGanttView provides options to print its content using a RadPrintDocument.

Printing Events
Shows you how to customize the output through the PrintElementFormatting and PrintElementPaint events.

Integration with RadScheduler
This example will demonstrate how RadGanttView integrates with RadScheduler, allowing you to show the appointments from RadScheduler in RadGanttView.

Today Indicator
The today indicator represents the current date and time in the graphical view of RadGanttView.

RadGridView

GridPrintStyle - Added Multi-page printing section
Multi-page printing enables you to print different pages by defining which columns to be printed on each page.

RadPageView

Editing page tabs
Shows how to edit page tabs and validate the text.

RadPdfViewer

Thumbnails
RadPdfViewer providers options to display the pdf pages as thumbnails for easier navigation

RadPivotGrid

CalculatedFields
In this article you will find out how to extend RadPivotGrid's generated report by adding Calculated Fields. A calculated field uses a custom formula to derive the results you need.

CalculatedItems
A calculated item is a new item in a row or column field in which the values are the result of a custom calculation

Export to Excel
This method offers exporting functionality and does not require MS Office installation on users' machines

RadRangeSelector (NEW CONTROL)

Getting Started
This tutorial demonstrates how to use RadRangeSelector to get a fine grain view of the data represented in RadChartView.

Integration with RadChartView
Demonstrates how RadRangeSelectorViewElement extends the RadChartElement and generates the scales according to its Axes collection.

RadRating (NEW CONTROL)

Getting Started
Demonstrates the basic steps eneded to get started with RadRating control in VisualStudio.

Customization
Shows how to customize RadRating's colors or set a custom shape.

answered on 17 Jan 2014, 03:31 PM

New KB articles:

RadPageView
RadPageView - create multiline strip element with RadCommandBar
This article will show how RadCommandBar can be used with combination with RadPageView to achieve multiline strips (pages).

Documentation for MS Help viewer for VS2010
Installing local documentation for MS Help viewer (Help3) in Visual Studio 2010
This article will walk you through the process of installing the local documentation in Visual Studio 2010.

Documentation for MS Help viewer for VS2012/VS2013
Installing local documentation for MS Help viewer (Help3) in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
This article will walk you through the process of installing the local documentation in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.

answered on 27 Feb 2014, 11:58 AM

New Help articles

New controls and functionalities
Telerik Analytics Integration
Describes how Telerik Analytics can be used with Telerik UI for WinForms.

RadCollapsiblePanel
This documentation section describes the capabilities and the features of this newly introduced RadCollapsiblePanel.

RadDataEntry
This section contains helpful articles about the newly introduced RadDataEntry control.

RadBindingNavigator
This help section describes the functionality of the newly introduced RadBindingNavigator control.

RadMultiColumnComboBox
Auto-Complete
Shows how the built-in Auto-Complete functionality can be used.

RadSpellChecker
Spell check as you type
The article demonstrates how to use spell on the fly functionality.

RadCalenar
Localization Provider
The article describes how RadCalendar can be localized for a specific language.

RadChartView
Printing
The article demonstrates the printing functionality of RadChartView.

Stepline Series
Illustrates how this type of series can be initialized and used.

RadGridView
Paging
Describes how the paging functionality can be used.

Paging panel
Describes how the paging panel can be customized.

Updated Help articles

RadListView
Working with items
Description of the new best fit columns functionality is added.

answered on 11 Mar 2014, 04:01 PM

Updated help articles:

RadCheckBox
Handling RadCheckBox States
Updated events description.

RadToggleButton
Handling RadToggleButton States
Updated events description.

RichTextBox
Keyboard support
New keyboard shortcuts are available.

RadDock
Floating Windows
Added information about floating and moving document windows.

RadPropertyGrid
Attributes
Demonstrates how the attributes can be used.

RadTreeView
Adding and Removing Nodes
Added description for NodeAdding and NodeRemoving events.

Data Binding Basics
Added description for NodeDataBound event.

RadGridView
Binding to Hierarchical Data Automatically
Added example for multi-level hierarchy.

Binding to Hierarchical Data Programmatically
Add examples for three-level hierarchy.

answered on 11 Mar 2014, 04:17 PM

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answered on 01 May 2014, 07:27 AM

New documentation articles

RadChartView
Custom labels
This article demonstrated how the axes labels can be customized.

RadDataEntry
Change the editor to a bound RadDropDownList
This article explains how specific editor can and should be changed to RadDropDownList.

RadTreeView
BreadCrumb
The article demonstrates the RadBreadCrumb control.

RadPivotGrid
Save and Load Layout
This article demonstrates the save and load layout functionality, which gives your applications the opportunity to preserve user RadPivotGrid settings such as group descriptors and restore them later.

Telerik Presentation Framework
Inherit themes from RadControls derivatives
This article shows how to inherit from a RadControl (or any RadControl descendant) and inherit the original control themes as well.

answered on 01 May 2014, 07:39 AM

New documentation articles

RadChartView
Custom labels
This article demonstrated how the axes labels can be customized.

RadDataEntry
Change the editor to a bound RadDropDownList
This article explains how specific editor can and should be changed to RadDropDownList.

answered on 20 Jun 2014, 02:10 PM

NEW help articles

Document Processing Libraries
RadWordsProcessing, RadPdfProcessing and RadSpreadProcessing
UI for WinForms suite now provides the APIs for working with the most common document formats: DOCX, RTF, XLSX, CSV, and PDF. With this release, you can embed, load, create, convert and print documents directly within your apps, without needing to have Microsoft Office, or any other external library, installed.

RadCalendar and RadDateTimePicker
Important Properties
New navigation mode - now by clicking the header of RadCalendar you can zoom out to year view, then decades view and then centuries view, with animation being applied between each of these views, just like it is in the standard Windows calendar. You enable this navigation mode by the HeaderNavigationMode property to Zoom.

Customizing Zoom Navigation
This article will guide you through the process of creating a month-year picker.

RadMaskedEditBox
Parsing Dates
When RadMaskedEditBox is with MaksType FreeFormDateTime the control tries to recognize a free-form string and convert it to a valid date. This can be applied to RadDateTimePicker and RadTimePicker controls as well.

RadGridView
Search Row
RadGridView offers a build-in search functionality available for both end users and developers. The search mechanism executes in a separate thread which leaves the UI responsive at all times.

RadPageView
Fitting items
RadPageView, when its ViewMode is set to Strip allows you to change the behavior of its tabs. New mode - MultiLine was introduced with the latest release.

RadScheduler
Drag and Drop
This section demonstrates the wide range of abilities RadScheduler supports for drag and drop operations between controls.

Scheduler Ruler
The ruler in RadScheduler is used to show the time intervals of the current view. The ruler has various properties which can be used to modify its appearance.

Binding to EntityFramework and Telerik Data Access
Binding to an ORM is similar to binding to a DataSet. First you will need to create the models out of an existing database.

Exact time rendering
RadScheduler supports functionality to arrange appointments according to their start time and duration.

RadChartView
Null values support
RadChartView support empty values in the series. In general empty values means missing Y value for a particular X value.

answered on 30 Jun 2014, 03:27 PM

NEW help articles

RadDateTimePicker
Navigation Modes
This article demonstrates how the new zoom navigation mode can be used.

RadGanttView
GraphicalView Link Item formatting
This article demonstrates how the links can be formatted depending on their type.

RadListView
Drag and drop in bound mode
When the RadListView is in bound mode, it does not support drag and drop functionality due to the specificity of the data source. However, this can be easily achieved using the built-in ListViewDragDropService.

RadScheduler
Scheduler Selection
The end user is allowed to perform a single cell selection pressing the left/right mouse button. SchedulerSelectionBehavior performs selection operations and provides information about the current selection of cells and appointments in RadScheduler.

Formatting Appointments
This article demonstrates how one can style appointments.

Common Visual Properties
The article describes the views common visual settings.

Cell Containers
This article describes the cell container elements purpose.

RadTimePicker
Free Form Date Time Parsing
This article demonstrates how the new free parsing mode can be used with RadTimePicker.

NEW Knowledge Base article

RadGridView
Merge Cells
This article demonstrates the supported ways for merging cells in RadGridView.

answered on 30 Jun 2014, 03:28 PM

answered on 04 Jul 2014, 11:31 AM

NEW help articles

RadListView
Drag and Drop from another control
RadListView supports drag and drop functionality from another control, such as dragging and dropping items from a Microsoft ListBox. This can be achieved using the OLE drag-and-drop.

Drag and Drop using RadDragDropService
This article will guide you through the process of achieving drag and drop functionality from RadListView to RadGridView and vice versa. For this purpose, we will use the RadDragDropService, supported by both of the controls.

UPDATED help articles

RadListView
Drag and Drop in bound mode
When the RadListView is in bound mode, it does not support drag and drop functionality due to the specificity of the data source. However, this can be easily achieved using the built-in ListViewDragDropService.

Spread processing
Custom Functions
This article provides information about the possible approaches for creating a custom function.

answered on 04 Jul 2014, 11:33 AM

answered on 04 Aug 2014, 06:54 AM

Added new help article:

RadListView
Combining RadDragDropService and OLE drag-and-drop
This article demonstrates a sample approach how to achieve drag and drop functionality between RadListView and RadListControl. For this purpose, we will use a combination between the RadDragDropService, supported by the RadListView control and the OLE drag-and-drop which is supported by all controls from the Telerik UI for WinForms suite.

Updated help article

Themes
Using a default theme for the entire application
This article describes how you can change the theme for the entire application and leave the default one (or use another) for one or several controls. This can be achieved by using the EnableApplicationThemeName property.

answered on 26 Aug 2014, 07:40 AM

NEW help articles

RadGridView
Copy/Paste
You can temporarily store text in the Clipboard and then paste it in a different location. Using "Copy" and "Paste" gets quite useful when you want to enter the same content repeatedly. RadGridView supports built-in Copy/Paste functionality.

NEW KB articles

RadGridView
Copy/Paste DisplayMember for GridViewComboBoxColumn
By default, the RadGridView built-in copy/paste functionality uses the selected cells’ value when storing data in the Clipboard. However, when you have a GridViewComboBoxColumn it is more suitable to copy/paste the cells’ text.

UPDATED help articles

RadScheduler
Formatting appointments
Appointments appearance in RadScheduler can be customized using the AppointmentFormatting event.

answered on 03 Oct 2014, 12:26 PM

NEW help articles

RadPropertyGrid
Custom items
RadPropertyGrid allows you to create and use your own custom value items, allowing you to add the desired editors to fit your business need. In the introduced example, we will add two radio buttons as value editor for a property grid item.

RadMultiColumnComboBox
Theme
This article shows how you can style the control.

RadTreeView
Getting Started
This article show how you can start using the control.

Events
This article describes the most used nodes events.

Tree Lines and Rows
The article show how one can style the lines and set alternating row color.

RadDateTimePicker
Set null or empty value
This article explains how you can use null values with the control.

RadMenu
Nesting Controls Tutorial
This article shows you can add tab strip to a menu item.

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answered on 29 Oct 2014, 03:08 PM

NEW help articles

RichTextEditor
All articles
RadRichTextEditor is a control that is able to display and edit rich-text content including formatted text arranged in pages, paragraphs, spans (runs), tables, etc. It aims to replace RadRichTextBox, addressing most of its disadvantages and complementing it with bunch of new features.

CheckedDropDownList
All articles
RadCheckedDropDownList combines RadDropDownList and RadAutoCompleteBox in order to provide functionality to check items in the drop down area and tokenize them in the text area.

Gauges
RadialGauge
The RadRadialGauge control is designed to display a simple value within a definite range.

ListView
Keyboard Navigation - an article explaining the new keyboard search functionality in the control

PropertyGrid
Keyboard Navigation - an article explaining the new keyboard search functionality in the control

GridView
GridViewCheckBoxColumn - the column now features a header check box and the article explains how to take advantage of it
SpreadExport - this article explains how to take advantage of the new exporting functionality of RadGridView, allowing export to xlsx, csv, txt and pdf.

ZipLibrary
All articles
With the new Zip Library you can compress data like images, docx or pdf files and send them over the wire.

PdfProcessing
ImageSource - ImageSource represents a single, constant set of pixels at a certain size. It can be used by multiple Image objects in order to be drawn in a PDF file.

Block - Block is a utility class that is intended to arrange the elements added to it in a flow-like manner. It can be used for measuring, drawing, and splitting of FixedContentElements.

Changes - This topic summarizes the new functionality introduced in the library with helpful links to places in the documentation that describe in greater detail the new functionality and how it can be used.

Backward Compatibility - This article lists the breaking changes and how they can be fixed when upgrading from a specific version of the controls to another.

SpreadProcessing
Performance Tips and Tricks - RadSpreadProcessing allows you to prepare and modify tabular data. Even though the library was built with performance in mind, working with large amounts of data slows it down. This article will help you get the most from the component in terms of performance.

Backward Compatibility - This article will list the breaking changes and how they can be fixed when upgrading from a specific version of the controls to the next one.

UPDATED help articles

TreeView
Keyboard Navigation - an article explaining the new keyboard search functionality in the control

WordsProcessing
Formats and conversion section - You can use RadWordsProcessing to convert among variety of formats. In the article you can see a feature / format matrix that describes supported features by file format.

CustomCodeField - Fields in RadFlowDocumet consist of code fragment and result fragment as explained in the Fields article. Some fields have direct representation in the document model – for example Hyperlinks. For all other fields you can use the CustomCodeField class – however you will need some knowledge of how to correctly form the code of the field.

Merge Field - Merge field is a Field element containing a reference to a data field by its name. When a template document is mail merged with the values from a data source, the data field information replaces the merge field. More information on the mail merge feature is available in the respective article: Mail Merge.

Mail Merge - Mail merge is functionality allowing to produce personalized documents from a template holding fixed content and variables. The variables are called Merge Fields and are replaced through the merge process with content from a specified data source.

Document Variables - Document variables provide a mechanism to store information in the document in a key-value format. The Document Variable field is a field element used to access and display the value which corresponds to the given field-argument. The argument is the name of the variable.

PdfProcessing
FixedContentEditor - FixedContentEditor is utility class that is intended to simplify the process of creating and editing the content of an IContentRootElement such as RadFixedPage.

FixedDocumentEditor - RadFixedDocumentEditor is a utility class aiming to allow the creation of RadFixedDocument in a flow-like manner. The editor provides methods that enable the generation of documents which automatically flows to pages.

Table - Table is а utility class that helps you easily create tabular data content.

TableCell - TableCell class represents a single cell in a Table. Cells are added to a TableRow instance in the rows collection of a table. The main purpose of the cell is to contain, organize and layout tabular data.

TableRow - TableRow class represents a single row in a Table. Each row contains a collection of TableCell instances.

SpreadProcessing
Shapes and Images - This article briefly describes what are shapes and images, and how to create and work with them. It contains the following sections:

History - The document model maintains a history stack that tracks all changes to the content of the workbook.

Colors and Color Spaces - The ColorBase abstract class is used to encapsulate colors in different color spaces. The article will show you the classes which derive from ColorBase

FixedContentEditor - FixedContentEditor is utility class that is intended to simplify the process of creating and editing the content of an IContentRootElement such as RadFixedPage.

answered on 17 Nov 2014, 12:17 PM

NEW help articles

RadTreeView
Drag and Drop in bound mode
When the RadTreeView is in bound mode, it supports drag and drop behavior. In order to enable this functionality, you should set the AllowDragDrop property to true. However, due to the specificity of the RadTreeView’s data binding and the set up hierarchical data structure, it is necessary to handle manually the drag and drop operation to obtain correct nodes order. For this purpose, it is necessary to create a custom TreeViewDragDropService. This article demonstrates a sample approach how to achieve it.

Telerik Presentation Framework
Create Prinatble Panel
This example shows how you can implement printable panel. This can be very useful when you want to print several controls at once. To achieve this you can create a custom panel that inherits from RadPanel and implements the IPrintable interface.

answered on 08 Dec 2014, 11:31 AM

NEW Articles

RadChartView
Bezier series
The Bezier chart displays a series of points on a curved line. Two "control points" determine the position and amount of curvature in the line between end points.

Bubble series
BubbleSeries are used to visualize data points as points with coordinates and size defined by their items' values.

RadGridView
Scrolling Support
Describes the control scrolling capabilities.

RadPivotGrid
Expand Behavior
Describes how the initial expand/collapse behavior can be changed.

RadRichTextEditor
InlinieUIContainer
Explains how one can add UI elements to the document.

Printing
Describes how one can use the control printing capabilities.

Repalce Default Dialogs
Explains how one can change the control default dialogs.

UPDATED Articles

RadGridView
Scrolling Programmatically
Added information about scrolling properties.

GridViewDateTimeColumn
Added information about EditorType property.

Excel-like filtering
When you select an item from the “Available Filter” menu, a CompositeFilterForm is displayed. The CreateCompositeFilterDialog event is fired just before the CompositeFilterForm is created.

RadPrintDocument
Header and Footer
Added information about the Logo property.

RadDateTimePicker

RadDateTimePicker Properties
Added section about the underlying MaskDateTimeProvider.

RadMaskedEditBox
Date and Time Masks
Added information about the MaskDateTimeProvider.

RadListControl
Features
Added information about alternating item color functionality.

RadTreeView
Enabling Drag and Drop
AllowDragDrop when true enables fully automatic drag and drop.

Property Builder
Added information for Save/Load functionality.

RadRibbonBar
Adding Screen Tips

RadCarousel
RadCarousel Properties
Added information about keyboard navigation.

RadMaskedEditBox
Standard Masks
By default, when the user is typing before already typed text, the text is overridden. If the Insert key is pressed you can insert characters instead of replacing them.

RadScheduler
Editing Appointments
When a change in an appointment's property occurs, the AppointmentChanged event is fired. The AppointmentChangedEventArgs gives you access to the exact Appointment and the PropertyName that has been modified.

RadChartView
Scroll and Zoom

answered on 09 Feb 2015, 03:33 PM

New help articles

RadRichTextEditor
RadRichTextEditorRuler
RadRichTextEditorRuler is a control providing ruler functionality to RadRichTextEditor. The rulers allow you to change the paragraph, page margins or align the paragraphs in the document.

RadPropertyGrid
Type Converters
RadPropertyGrid is commonly used to visualize custom object’s properties and values. A common case is when a certain property is of custom type, or there is no predefined editor for the specific type. In this situation the control will only display the type as a string. This article demonstrates how you can modify the way a property is being displayed and edited by using custom TypeConverters.

Updated help articles

RadListView
Custom items
Since the DetailsView provides a grid-like interface, it displays a cell for each data field. In order to create custom cells you need to subscribe to the CellCreating event and replace the default DetailListViewDataCellElement with your own cell implementation.

New KB articles

RadGanttView
Indicate Special Days in RadGanttView
By default, RadGanttView visualizes its items in rows, where all tasks are aligned according to the beginning and end time of each task. There is no clear column indication in the GraphicalViewElement. This article demonstrates a sample approach how to achieve it.

answered on 27 Feb 2015, 04:33 PM

New Controls

RadBulletGraph
This combines a number of indicators, as well as the data indicator into one control.

RadLinearGuage
The control displays simple value within a specific range.

RadDiagram
This control offers flexible and interactive diagramming layouts for your rich data-visualization applications.

RadCheckListBox
The control is an enhanced alternative to the standard Windows Forms checked list box control.

New Articles

RadChartView

Annotations
This article describes how one can highlight certain areas on the plot area and denote significant values.

Range and RangeBar Series
This series allows you to a define range with each data point.

Funnel Series
A funnel chart displays a single series of data in progressively decreasing or increasing proportions.

Waterfall Series
A waterfall chart type shows the cumulative effect of positive or negative values on the starting point.

Hlc Series
The article describes how the HLC series can be used.

RadDock

Customizing TabStrip Items
This article demonstrates how you can customize or replace the TabStrip items.

answered on 17 Mar 2015, 08:54 AM

Updated

Installation, Deployment and Distribution

Redistributing Telerik UI for WinForms
Tutorial of how a Public Key Deployment can be performed

WordsProcessing

Formats and Conversion
Pdf export section added

New Articles

WordsProcessing

Pdf

Pdf Format Overview

Features
A list of supported features

Using PdfFormatProvider

Example of importing and exporting RadFlowDocument

Settings
Extensibility manager and PDF/A compliant exporting

Spread Processing

Data Validation
The data validation rules to control the user input

ChartView

Inverse Axis
Implementation of a chart series with inverse axes

answered on 11 May 2015, 08:17 AM

New help articles

RadDropDownList
Populating with data at Design time
This article demonstrates how to populate RadDropDownList with data at design time. The RadListDataItem Collection Editor allows you to do that.

Adding items programmatically
RadDropDownList supports adding items at run time, which means that you can manually populate it with data. This article demonstrates how to add two different items to the RadDropDownList.Items collection.

RadListControl
Drag and Drop in Bound Mode
This article demonstrates how you can implement drag and drop operation between two bound RadListControl controls.

New KB article

RadPdfViewer
NotSupportedException “Startxref keyword cannot be found” when loading pdf file in RadPdfViewer for WinForms
This article demonstrates how to deal with a NotSupportedException (with message “Startxref keyword cannot be found”) which is thrown, when attempting to load a pdf file in RadPdfViewer.

answered on 29 May 2015, 11:22 AM

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RadGridView
Sorting group rows
This article demonstrates how to customize the groups sort order.

RadDropDownList
Custom Items
This article demonstrates how to display detailed information for each employee from the Northwind.Employees table which is used as data source.

Sorting
RadDropDownList supports sorting of its pop-up items. You can control how the items in the RadDropDownList are sorted by specifying the SortStyle property.

Item Sizing
It demonstrates how to customize the items' size in the pop-up.

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RadDropDownList
Auto-complete
It demonstrates how to customize the auto-complete helpers.

answered on 09 Jun 2015, 06:06 AM

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RadDropDownList
Right-To-Left Support
Example of setting right-to-left (RTL) language locales.

A nimation Effects
Explains how animations can be enabled and defined.

Scrolling
Demonstrates the different scrolling modes.

Selection
Describes how items can be selected and explains the selection events.

Filtering
RadDropDownList supports filtering of its items. In order to apply a filter, you should set the Filter property of RadDropDownList to a predicate that will be called for every data item in order to determine if the item will be visible.

DropDown Resizing
This article demonstrates how to manipulate the drop-down size.

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RadDropDownList
DropDownStyle
Describes how user defined values can be added.

answered on 03 Jul 2015, 03:09 PM

New controls and functionalities

RadLayoutControl
The RadLayoutControl allows you to add and arrange other controls in complex layouts.

RadPopupEditor
The RadPopupEditor control allows you to show any predefined or custom controls in its popup.

RadToggleSwitch
RadToggleSwitch is a control designed to represent two states: e.g. true/false, On/Off, etc.

Color Blending
Visual Style Builder provides a color blending functionality making it easy to completely transform an existing theme.

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RadDiagram
Layout
Layout in the RadDiagram refers to the way the Shapes are arranged on the diagramming surface. RadDiagram provides a dozen of layout algorithms which can be easily customized.

Pan and Zoom
In RadDiagram you can easily pan, zoom in or out of your current diagramming structure.

Undo and redo
Telerik Diagramming Framework exposes Undo/Redo functionality. The framework allows you to keep track of the changes made in a Diagramming structure and trigger an undo or redo action using commands, methods or keyboard shortcuts.

Editing
RadDiagram gives you the ability to edit the content of its items.

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RadGridView
GridViewPdfExport

RadDiagram
Connections

RadRichTextEditor
Localization
RichTextBoxLocalizationProvider contains all strings related to the RadRichTextEditorRibbonUI as well.

RadDateTimePicker
CultureInfo and RegionInfo Basics

answered on 03 Aug 2015, 06:16 AM

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RadDiagram
ContainerShapes
RadDiagramContainerShape allows you to place multiple shapes into one container shape.

Touch Support
RadDiagram touch support is controlled through the EnableGestures property.

Printing Support

RadDiagram provides options to print its content by using a RadPrintDocument.

Routing
Routing is a mechanism using algorithms to make sure that the connections don't cross each other while building links/paths between the shapes.

RadPdfViewer
Text Position
TextPosition is a position in the text of a RadFixedDocument.

Text Selection
RadPdfViewer supports selection both through the UI and programmatically.

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RadDiagram
Connections
RadDiagram allows you to define what kind of bridge to display through the RadDiagram.ConnectionBridge property.

answered on 06 Aug 2015, 02:09 PM

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RadPivotGrid

Spread Export
PivotGridSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents of RadPivotGrid to xlsx, csv, pdf and txt formats.

Export to Pdf
RadPivotGrid can export its contents to PDF. This is achieved with the help of the RadPdfProcessing library.

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RadGridView

Spread export
RadGridView can export its grouped content by simply setting the ExportChildRowsGrouped property of the GridViewSpreadExport object to true.

RadCheckedDropDownList

Properties and Events
RadCheckedDropDownList the Check All item by which you can check/uncheck all other items.

answered on 02 Oct 2015, 02:37 PM

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RadDataLayout

RadDataLayout provides the layout capabilities of the layout control and in addition, it can automatically create the needed items and editors for your data object.

RadDiagram

Data Binding Basics

In this article you can check how to data bind RadDiagram to a DataTable.

Design Time Data Binding

This tutorial will show you how to bind RadDiagram from the Visual Studio design time surface, by only using the RadDiagram design-time support, and without writing any code.

Binding to Custom Objects

In this article you can check how to data bind RadDiagram by using custom objects.

Settings Pane

This article will get you familiar with the SettingsPane that is part of RadDiagram.

Information Adorner

RadDiagram shows information that appear below the manipulation adorner when you resize, rotate or drag a shape or group of shapes and connections. RadDiagram uses the ItemInformationAdorner to visualize information regarding the position, and rotation angle of its shapes.

Localization

This tutorial describes the localization support implemented in RadDiagram.

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RadGridView

Column Groups View

You can add and configure the groups definition in the property builder.

RadDateTimePicker

CultureInfo and RegionInfo Basics

RadDateTimePicker now support Shamsi, Hijri and Umulqura calendars.

RadCalendar

CultureInfo and RegionInfo Basics

RadCalendar now support Shamsi, Hijri and Umulqura calendars.

answered on 12 Oct 2015, 08:32 AM

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RadListView

Spread Export

ListViewSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents of RadListView to , , pdf and txt formats.

RadTreeView

Spread Export

TreeViewSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents of RadTreeView to xlsx, csv, pdf and txt formats.

RadPropertyGrid

Spread Export

PropertyGridSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents of RadPropertyGrid , , pdf and txt formats.

RadPageView

Strip Element Properties

Properties defining the behavior of the StripView.

TPF

Override Theme Settings at Run Time

Defining a style for a specific element state without losing the applied style for the rest of the states.

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RadPdfViewer

Getting Started

Updated image.

RadDock

RadDock Properties and Methods

Support for pin and preview tabs.

Localization

Updated localization string.

RadGridView

Export to Excell with Spread Export

Export of view definitions.

answered on 12 Oct 2015, 08:34 AM

New help articles

RadListView

Spread Export

ListViewSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents of RadListViewto xlsx, csv, pdf and txt formats.

RadTreeView

Spread Export

TreeViewSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents ofRadTreeView to xlsx, csv, pdf and txt formats.

RadPropertyGrid

Spread Export

PropertyGridSpreadExport utilizes our RadSpreadProcessing libraries to export the contents of RadPropertyGrid , , pdf and txt formats.

RadPageView

Strip Element Properties

Properties defining the behavior of the StripView.

TPF

Override Theme Settings at Run Time

Defining a style for a specific element state without losing the applied style for the rest of the states.

Updated help articles

RadPdfViewer

Getting Started

Updated image.

RadDock

RadDock Properties and Methods

Support for pin and preview tabs.

Localization

Updated localization string.

RadGridView

Export to Excell with Spread Export

Export of view definitions.

answered on 25 Oct 2016, 10:27 AM

RadPivotGrid and RadPivotFieldList for WinForms
Using the QueryableProvider
QueryableDataProvider is one of the data source providers that can be used with RadPivotGrid and RadPivotFieldList. QueryableDataProvider provides an easy way to use data from a database with RadPivotGrid.

Custom Aggregation
RadPivotGrid is designed to aggregate data and it provides an API for assigning special aggregation functions performing custom calculations.

RadMap
RadMap can visualize tile data from the Bing Maps and the OpenStreetMaps REST services as well as from the local file system.

Converter Tool
This tool allows you to convert the standard .NET Windows Forms controls for all projects in a particular solution to their equivalent in Telerik UI for WinForms.

GridViewSpreadStreamExport
The GridViewSpreadStreamExport uses the RadSpreadStreamProcessing library which allows you to create big documents (without loading the entire document in the memory) and export them to the most common formats.

CardView Editors Overview
RadCardView supports editing of its content out of the box. This operation can be started by clicking with the mouse on the value of a particular item.

CardView Switching Editors
The article provides an example how the default editor used by RadCardView can be changed.

answered on 07 Dec 2016, 01:44 PM

RadDiagram for WinForms
Drag and Drop from Another Control
This article will demonstrate how you can create shapes in RadDiagram after dragging an object from a separate control, in our case RadGridView.

RadRichTextEditor for WinForms
RadRichTextEditor OpenOffice Spell Checking
The example demonstrates how to create and work with an OpenOffice spell-checker in RadRichTextEditor. The solution uses the NHunspell library: http://www.crawler-lib.net/nhunspell. In order to open an .OXT dictionary file, you have to unzip it. This file contains .AFF and .DIC files, which have to be passed to the HunspellSpellChecker constructor to be used by the NHunspell library.

UI for WinForms
Trial vs Licensed version
Explains the difference between the trial and licensed versions.

answered on 25 Jan 2017, 02:51 PM

UI for WinForms
RadDataFilter
Building complex filter expressions is a breeze with RadDataFilter. The control allows specifying expressions based on the fields.properties available in the data source. The intuitive UI of the control is designed to facilitate the end-user while empowering the developer to create related expressions with a few clicks.

RadPdfViewer and RadPdfViewerNavigator for WinForms
Rotation
RadPdfViewer control provides functionality for rotating the pages of the loaded document. You can programmatically rotate the document pages through the Rotate method or the RotationAngle property.

Save Loaded Document
The SaveDocument method allows you to save the currently loaded document in an new file.

Export to Image
The article demonstrates how a document loaded in RadPdfViewer can be exported to an image.

RadScheduler and RadReminder for WinForms
Grouping by Resources
Accessing Child Elements The example demonstrates how each of the child view elements can be accessed, and has its own settings for a particular resource.

answered on 27 Jan 2017, 12:02 PM

RadEditors (TextBox, MaskedEditBox, DateTimePicker, TimePicker, SpinEditor, ColorBox, BrowseEditor, Clock, AutoCompleteBox, TextBoxControl, PopupEditor) for WinForms
Null values support for RadSpinEditor
Since R1 2017 RadSpinEditor supports null value. In order to enable this functionality it is necessary to set the EnableNullValueInput property to true. Thus, when the text is cleared and RadSpinEditor looses focus, null value will be set. The default Value property is of type int and it cannot be set to null. A new property,called NullableValue, is introduced for this purpose and it can be set to null. The NullableValueChanged event is fired when the NullableValue property is changed.

RadGridView for WinForms
Improvements in RadGridView's search row
The end user can select in which columns to perform searching by the provided Search in columns drop down. Thus, the highlighted result will be displayed in the specified columns only.

Drag a column header and drop it here to group by that column

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RadPdfViewer control provides functionality for rotating the pages of the loaded document. You can programmatically rotate the document pages through the Rotate method or the RotationAngle property.

http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/pdfviewer/rotation

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Since R1 2017 RadSpinEditor supports null value. In order to enable this functionality it is necessary to set the EnableNullValueInput property to true. Thus, when the text is cleared and RadSpinEditor looses focus, null value will be set. The default Value property is of type int and it cannot be set to null. A new property,called NullableValue, is introduced for this purpose and it can be set to null. The NullableValueChanged event is fired when the NullableValue property is changed.

http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/editors/spineditor/null-value-support

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RadPdfViewer control provides functionality for rotating the pages of the loaded document. You can programmatically rotate the document pages through the Rotate method or the RotationAngle property.

http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/pdfviewer/rotation

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The end user can select in which columns to perform searching by the provided Search in columns drop down. Thus, the highlighted result will be displayed in the specified columns only.

http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/gridview/rows/search-row

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Telerik Presentation Framework
DPI Support
UI for WinForms is giving your Windows apps a new power today - support for high-resolution DPI monitors is now a built-in part of UI for WinForms.

Shadows
RadControls are supporting shadows. Each element that inherits RadItem can paint a shadow. RadItem paints the shadow of each of its children before the painting the child element itself, and then paints the fill, border and text().

Glyphs
With the new Material theme, we have introduced a new approach for adding icons and icon-like images. We are providing font "glyphs" via the TelerikWebUI font. The glyphs are vector symbols that can be used as information-carrying icons or interaction indicators.

answered on 13 Sep 2017, 01:54 PM

Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms
Touch Enabled Themes
Telerik UI for Winforms suite contains several themes that are optimized for a touch devices

Customizing the Material Theme
As of the R2 2017 the Material, MaterialBlueGray, MaterialPink, and the MaterialTeal themes are built-in and redistributed with our suite.

RadSpreadsheet
RadSpreadsheet is a control that allows editing tabular data utilizing a variety of cell formatting options, styles, and themes.

RadPdfViewer and RadPdfViewerNavigator for WinForms
Interactive Forms in RadPdfViewer
With RadPdfViewer, you can provide the end users the ability to show, fill and save documents containing interactive forms (available from R3 2017).

Digital signature in RadPdfViewer
With RadPdfViewer you are able to both display and verify documents within your application and make sure that it has not been tampered with.

answered on 18 Jan 2018, 02:25 PM

Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms
Material Themes Blending
Visual Style Builder provides an easy way to generate different color variations of the Material theme. Material theme blending uses the basic Material theme by executing a series of predefined commands.

RadBarcode
RadBarcode can be used to create and show barcodes. You can generate and visualize barcodes in a machine-readable format via the RadBarcode control by providing numeric or character data.

RadScheduler and RadReminder for WinForms
Search in RadScheduler
Similar to Outlook calendar, in R1 2018 we introduced search functionality in RadScheduler. A search text box is located in RadSchedulerNavigator next to the time zones drop down.

answered on 05 Feb 2018, 12:55 PM

Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms
Versions Upgrade
After installing a new version of the Telerik UI for WinForms suite you may encounter design time errors and inability to build your project.

How to embed Chrome browser in a WinForms application
This article demonstrates a sample approach how to embed Chrome in your application.

RadGridView for WinForms
Cell types
Depending on the column type RadGridView uses different cells in order to display the respective data in the most suitable way.

RadPropertyGrid for WinForms
Showing Images in PropertyGridDropDownListEditor
If you need to show icons next to the popup items in PropertyGridDropDownListEditor you can use the VisualItemFormatting event for the BaseDropDownListEditorElement and specify the desired image for the visual items.

answered on 23 May 2018, 12:53 PM

Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms
Holidays support in RadScheduler
Similar to Outlook, since R2 2018 RadScheduler provides holidays support. It allows loading holidays for different countries from a .hol file or adding them programmatically.

Fluent Theme Blending
The Fluent themes as well as the Material themes are designed to work with predefined set of colors - primary and accent for the Material themes, and entire palettes for the Fluent themes. The tutorial here will demonstrate how a new Fluent theme can be created. The same steps can be also followed with the FluentDark theme.

RadImageEditor - new control
RadImageEditor is a control that can be used to preview and edit images in different file formats. It is meant to be used as a stand-alone control, but has also been integrated in RadRichTextBox.

RadChat - new control
Since R2 2018 Telerik UI for WinForms suite offers RadChat control. This control provides rich conversational experience that goes beyond the natural language understanding and personality of your chatbot.

RadDataEntry and RadDataLayout for WinForms
How to order properties in RadDataEntry
By default, RadDataEntry generates the editors for the fields ordered in the way they are defined in the DataSource object. A common scenario is to change the fields' order according to certain criteria

answered on 29 May 2018, 09:43 AM

RadChartView for WinForms
Negative Area Chart
This article shows how you can paint a chart where the area is started from zero. This means that the positive values will go up and the negative down.

RadGridView for WinForms
Custom Values in GridViewComboBoxColumn
This article demonstrates how you can add any value and still be able to choose from predefined options.

RadListView, RadCardView and RadCheckedListBox for WinForms
Shopping Cart Item for RadListView Environment
This article demonstrates how one can create a shopping cart item where the user can see the product detail and adjust the amount.

RadVirtualGrid for WinForms
Server Side Paging in Virtual Grid
By definition, not all of that data needs to be available locally. The example in this article will handle a scenario of implementing a server-side paging.

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