Right now I am trying to create a mockup for one of upcoming product. I thought using Telerik's control my job will be easier and thing should go smooth. But right now I am feeling difficulty. There are few things I like to share that really bothered me.

1. Is there any central way to assign theme? right now what I see is I have to assign theme manually to each and every Telerik control I use on form. I looked in Sample application for similar problem but what I see is simple one control solution. What I really like to see here is, I use shape form - I assign Theme to it and all child controls follow same until explicitly override. Or we can have a control do same kind of job.

2. I had already posted some problem with Treeview but found that its problem with VS design time environment. So as given in that blog now I close my design form before running application. However I found new issues.
    First I am using ShapedForm - every time assign Rounder as shape close form run app, shape is gone. I have done that 10 times and I think for now it is working (not sure how long).
    Second I am using RadTitleBar control, my form will be shown as dialog form I don't want Maximize button, I opened Edit UI Element window and set Visibility = Collapsed. Again design time look good. I have closed form (as it might behave same as Treeview) and then running application what I see Maximize button still visible. Not sure if this is a bug or I am doing something seriously wrong here.

3. My main issue cameup is inconstant behavior of Title bar themes. What I found is default skin for Title bar do have Minimize, Maximize and close buttons. But as soon as I switch theme say - "office2007black" all I see is title bar with header but no buttons on right hand side and this is happening in all the themes other then default one. Do I have to prepare those buttons?

4. I see lots of other UI components are also available in Suite but one thing I miss is Radiobutton as I can use other Telerik controls for consistent UI having old Non themed Radiobuttons slightly kill the appearance. This is not a big though. Problem here is with Textbox as I found using default with skin is not going to be that useful, its text coming touching to Border (top, left) that is not good by default it should have some margin to make it look much much better.

Some of above may have some easy answers, but as I am new to Rad for Winforms and trying to create quick mockup forms I am finding my self no chance for experimenting with UI and themes. I am really looking back to old winforms controls to get my mockups going.. but I still love to use telerik controls in my app (if I get some solutions for above things).

I'm having a major problem here...

Whenever i try to change a rad label in my form at design time (reposition it) an unhandled exception is thrown saying that "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" and then visual studio is closed.

The problem occured after i tried to localize my forms (derived from ShapedForm).

Any clue ??

Hi,

I am trying to use the RadPanel Bar but when i toggle from particular group elements, some of the items went missing. This is especially true for outlook Nav which always set my last GroupElement as the initial startup. Please advise. 

David

Hi!

I am trying to resize the plot area in order to prevent the legend overlapping the chart. Since longer texts in the legend takes up more space i try to set the right margin of the plot area to the width of the legend.

I am trying achiev that by this line of code:
chartTrend.PlotArea.Appearance.Dimensions.Margins.Right.Value = chartTrend.Legend.Appearance.Dimensions.Width.Value + 35;

The problem is that chartTrend.Legend.Appearance.Dimensions.Width.Value always is zero!

Is this the best approach or is there another way of resizing the plot area so it will not be overlapped by the legend?

The new grid automatically selects the first row that is bound to it. I want to be able to load the grid without it initially selecting the first row. I also want to be able to deselect a row using ctrl + click.  Is there a way to perform either of these actions?  If not, can I request that they be included in the next service pack?

By the way, thanks for your speedy responses in previous threads.

Hi Telerik Team, 

it will be nice if we can show a Mosaic view of all tab items as in IE 7 ?

thanks 
kort

dumb question maybe but i cannot find this property

how can i get the row index of the CurrentRow?

And is there a way of creating a new row when the user press tab on the last cell of the grid. What event should i trap ?

Thanks

I am having trouble sorting the new GridView when I have the Column DataField set to Property.Property.

For example, if the DataField = Name then the column sorts properly, but if the DataField = Person.Name then the column does not sort.

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The navigation keys (Left, Right keys) works just fine. But I'd like to skip cells that are read-only and jump directly to the next writable cell. Is this possible?

I'd also like to use the Enter key the same way as the Right key. I've set 

grid.BeginEditMode = RadGridViewBeginEditMode.BeginEditOnF2

so enter wont work as going into edit mode. Is there an easy way to do it?

Hi,

I was just trying my hands on latest Winforms Q2 version for RadTreeView. In one of my project I want to use TreeView as of like menu but don't want to have ability to collapse nodes.

During this I found there are couple of properties, ShowExpandCollapse and ShowPlusMinus can do some trick. But what I found is - when I set them to false Design time view for Controls is just fine but these properties has no effect when I run application.

Then I looked other way - NodeExpandedChanging event and have e.Cancel = true in event. In this case ExpandAnimation (which is opacity by default) get executed. So I looked in property and set that to None - and guess what that property also has no effect while I run my App!

I have not done any kind of runtime databinding, I have just added few Nodes to have hierarchical view for test. I also check TreeViewXml and that looks exactly as I have setup.

Is this a bug? or I am missing something?