Thinner style of RadExpander

[Antonis]

How could i make my radExpander have a thinner style!?!

The style i am referring is something simillar to the expander that you had published on the first version of silverlight controls which had a small arrow image that you pressed to expand the expander and not the button (with the embedded arrow image) that the expander is using now. I think the header size of the expander is now double the size (width if you have a left/right expandation).

I am using in my application the Vista Theme. Is it possible that i could have an example of how i achieve this?! 

I tried using a Dictionary in my app.xaml but that didn't work. 

Many thanks,

Antonis

[Miroslav]

Hello Antonis,

If you want to, we can send you the old ControlTemplate to apply to the RadExpander.

But if you really want to minimize the Header of the Expander horizontally, you can rotate its contents. To do this you can use our LayoutTransformControl can be found in the latest Internal build that will be uploaded later today. To achieve this you can do something similar to this xaml:

<UserControl.Resources>
    <RotateTransform x:Key="Vericalize" Angle="-90" />
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
    <telerik:RadExpander IsExpanded="True" ExpandDirection="Right"
            Background="LightCyan">
        <telerik:RadExpander.Header>
            <primitives:LayoutTransformControl
                    LayoutTransform="{StaticResource Vericalize}">
                <TextBlock Text="The Verical Expander" />
            </primitives:LayoutTransformControl>
        </telerik:RadExpander.Header>
        <ListBox>
            <ListBoxItem Content="Item 1" />
            <ListBoxItem Content="Item 2" />
        </ListBox>
    </telerik:RadExpander>
</Grid>

Let us know if you need the ControlTemplate,

All the best,
Miroslav
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[Antonis]

It would be great if you could attach the old control template..!

Thanks for showing me the way to rotate the contents on the header!

[Miroslav]

Hello Antonis,

I created a small project where I have included the old Expander style, please find it attached.

Greetings,
Miroslav
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[Antonis]

Great, just what i asked for!

Many thanks!