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Hi,

I would really like to see a document which outlines which controls to replace the standard controls. It would be really neat to see this in the form of a quick reference table.

For example:

.Net Control    -    Telerik RadControl

Label              -    RadLabel
ComboBox      -    RadComboBox
StatusStrip      -    RadToolBar
ToolStrip         -    RadToolBar
Form              -    ShapedForm

A list of tips and tricks would not go astray either.

New Product Suggestions

answered on 22 Oct 2007

1 answer

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2007 Q2 SP1: Rewource theme not listing

I'm adding in my theme as resource as embedded. Then adding it into a Theme Manager.

But it does not show amongst the available themes for the control. But I just write in the name of it anyway. The control then goes invisible in the Design GUI. But if I run the app, it works fine and uses that theme.

This was working in 2007 Q2 I think.

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 22 Oct 2007

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data entry error reporting in Grid view.

Hey Guys,

I'm using a RadGridView bound via bindingSource to a List of custom objects. I want to be able to alert the user if they have entered invalid data when editing. (fails min/max or other such business rules)

in radGridView_CellFormatting() event I test for invalid data and if invalid, I want to set the Fore and Back color of the cell. (using ConditionalFormattingObject wasn't robust enough as I need to set tool tip with error details)

e.CellElement.ForeColor works no problem, but e.CellElement.BackColor will not set. (I set it to Color.Red, but still shows as white.)
Any ideas? (I'm using the default theme.)

Alternatively, is there any way to set an errorProvider for that cell? Or show an error icon in the cell? (setting image doesn't work because it can only be centered.... not left/right aligned)

OR is there a better way to go about alerting the user they've entered erroneous data? (and draw attention to the cell. )

Any and all help appreciated!!
Thanks.

GridView

answered on 19 Oct 2007

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Grid Lookup Column

Hi

I am currently evaluating your GridView control and I would like to know if it supports lookup columns when data bound.

Just to clarify I want to, for example, bind a grid to the Northwind orders table and have the EmployeeID column show the LastName from the Employees table rather than the EmployeeID.

Regards, Carl Gilbert

GridView

answered on 19 Oct 2007

3 answers

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r.a.d StatusBar

I think it will be great to have a statusbar control

New Product Suggestions

answered on 19 Oct 2007

2 answers

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Listbox extremly slow loading

I list by business objects in a listbox. It find it extremly slow to load.
Here is my code:

                    Dim lngTick As Long = Environment.TickCount  

                    lbxPromotionProduct.BeginUpdate()  

                    Dim prods As ProductROCollection = ProductROCollection.GetProductsRO(_identity.CompanyId)  

                    Debug.WriteLine("Time to Load collection" & vbTab & Environment.TickCount - lngTick)  

                    lngTick = Environment.TickCount  

                    If prods.Count > 0 Then 

                        If optPromotionProductListByName.Checked Then 

                            prods.SortStable("productName", System.ComponentModel.ListSortDirection.Ascending)  

                        Else 

                            prods.SortStable("productRef", System.ComponentModel.ListSortDirection.Ascending)  

                        End If 

                    End If 

                    Debug.WriteLine("Time to SortStable" & vbTab & Environment.TickCount - lngTick)  

                    lngTick = Environment.TickCount  

                    With lbxPromotionProduct  

                        .DataSource = Nothing 

                        .DisplayMember = "productRefName" 

                        .ValueMember = "productRef" 

                        .DataSource = prods  

                        Debug.WriteLine("Time to DataSource" & vbTab & Environment.TickCount - lngTick)  

                        lngTick = Environment.TickCount  

                        If .SelectedIndex > -1 Then .SetSelected(.SelectedIndex, False)  

                        Debug.WriteLine("Time to Selected" & vbTab & Environment.TickCount - lngTick)  

                        lngTick = Environment.TickCount  

                    End With 

                    lbxPromotionProduct.EndUpdate()  

                    Debug.WriteLine("Time to EndUpdate" & vbTab & Environment.TickCount - lngTick)

and the output is:

Time to Load collection 501  

Time to SortStable  110  

Time to DataSource  6820  

Time to Selected    0  

Time to EndUpdate   2213

We are only talking about 584 records so it's not a huge amont of data.

Any advice?

ComboBox and ListBox (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 19 Oct 2007

2 answers

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Event Handler on dynamic RadButtonElements

Hi,

I'm dynamically populating a RadPanelBar with a series of GroupElements and RadButtonElements. I'd like to know how I can add an onClick handler to each generated RadButtonElement so that I can get the dyncamically generated buttons to perform some function.

I've done similar code with Menu Items which allow an OnClick eventHandler as a parameter when you add items to the Menu;

ReportMenu.MenuItems(f).MenuItems(g).Add("Report X"), New System.EventHandler(AddressOf openReport_Click)) 

Any ideas how I can get this all happening?

Cheers,
Karin

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 19 Oct 2007

7 answers

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how to add arrow in the radButtonElement

Hi ,

I am using RadPanelBar and I have 2 RadButtonElement inside RadpanelBarGroupElement. I need to have an arrow pointer ( pointing to the right ) of the button whenever the user moves its mouse over it. This will help user to know which form is chosen on the right from these RadButtonElement.
As an example:
Please see any menu items that has arrow buttons on it when it contains submenus.
I want the arrow to appear on the RadButtonelement only when its selected and the respective details are shown on the right side of the form.

Any help on this is appreciated.

Thanks
barkha

Panelbar (obsolete as of Q2 2010)

answered on 19 Oct 2007

2 answers

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Not able to apply the theme in PanelBar

Hi All,

I have a radPanelBar control in my form and by default it has blue color on it group elements and while on the content layout. Also when mouse moves the group button item elements, they highlight as yellow.

I created theme using RadPanel Tasks bar and "Open Theme Builder" to create a new theme and then saved the xml file at the Resources folder and set the compile option to the Embedded Resource.

After this I ran the application but didn't see any chane in the colors of the control.

Can someone please tell me where I am wrong?

Is there any way to send you the sample application that I am trying?

Thanks
barkha

Themes and Visual Style Builder

answered on 17 Oct 2007

2 answers

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Pinning an auto hidden DockPanel

I have a DockingManger that has two DockPanels setup at design time.
One of the DockPanels I want to allow auto hiding and pinning, the other not. This works just fine, but I also do not want to allow other potential DockPanels to be docked to this DockingManger. To do so I set the AllowDocking property on the DockingManger to false.

Unfortunately a side effect of doing so prevents an auto hidden DockPanel from being re-pinned.

Is there a way around this?

Dock

answered on 17 Oct 2007