Hey guys,

Someone had asked about showing a form in a Carousel or Rotator - don't remember which. Anyway, that got me thinking...hmmmm....though you may not be able to show an entire form in those controls, you can display a RadPanel in those controls. So then it occurred to me that you could create a RadPanel on a different form, then populate the Carousel or Rotator with that panel. This allows you to put the entire contents of the RadPanel from Form2 on Form1.

Here's what I mean....

Consider this:
- Create two forms - Form1 and Form2
- On Form1, add a RadRotator and a button to change rotator pages (button click, radRotator1.Next();)
- On Form2, add two RadPanels and some RadButtons or other rad controls on each panel
- Back on Form1, create these two methods:

private RadPanel GetPanel(Form form, string panelName)
{
  RadPanel panel = (RadPanel)form.Controls[panelName];
  if (panel == null)
  {
    panel = new RadPanel();
    panel.Text = "UNKNOWN PANEL: " + panelName;
  }

  return panel;
}

private void PopulateRotator()
{
  //create instance of Form2
  Form2 form2 = new Form2();

  //get radPanel1 from Form2
  Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadPanel panel = this.GetPanel(form2, "radPanel1");
  radRotator1.RotatorElement.Items.Add(new RadHostItem(panel));

  //get radPanel2 from Form2
  panel = this.GetPanel(form2, "radPanel2");
  //add the second panel to the rotator
  radRotator1.RotatorElement.Items.Add(new RadHostItem(panel));

  radRotator1.OpacityAnimation = true;
  radRotator1.Next();
}
       
       
- Finally, add the Form_Load event in Form1 and call the PopulateRotator() method.

DISCLAIMER: Just an idea. You'll need to add error handling and stuff...and eh...did I mention this was only an idea?!!!!!  :-)

Hello,
I would like to use the RadGridview in a similar way as the PropertyGrid, using Reflections.
This will require me to have a column with a lot of different types (string, Datetime, TypeConverter etc.), is it possible to give each cell a unique editor?

Thanks,

Joel