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I'm haiving trouble with the TileView. It's bound to a collection of entites. These entities have image contents in them. When the application loads the TileView loads fine. But when I try to add a new item to the collection, the sizing of the tiles goes wonky. Could it be because the images in the collection are different sizes (height and width)? They won't ever be all the same size.

TileView

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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Telerik Themes for WPF

Hello,

I would like to make a suggestion.

At the moment, I find most of the Telerik themes useless.

However it would be really nice if Telerik themes like Windows 7 theme in Q3 and older ones could be applied to ALL wpf controls (not only Telerik ones). This would allow us to provide consistent

It seems that your competition, DevExpress, did that already and people find it usefull.

I think most people here would like Telerik to provide this functionality.

General Discussions

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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How to display ® and ™ in treeview?

Hi,

I am using XML as datasource. The data contains XML representation of ® and ™: &REG; and &TRADE;

My treeview is displaying them as it is: MyCompany&REG;

Is there any efficient way I can convert these markup strings back to symbols and display them in tree?

PS: I don't really want to use converts for such rarely occurring characters/symbols.

Thanks

TreeView

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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Use WPF data to configure Windows Service

I have a Windows Service that needs a significant amount of user input. Yes, I can put those values in the app.config file but then that seems lazy. This UI includes the ability to configure the service, start/stop the service and a log viewer. So, I'd like the Windows Service to pick up the values entered by the UI. Does anyone have a "standard" or "best practices" way of doing this? Or, even just a better idea than my own.

My current approach:
The UI's data context is an object that contains all of my UI entries. Serialize the object as XML using XmlSerializer. Then whenever the Windows Service cycles, go to this XML file and deserialize it. Then, use that object in the Windows Service.

My question on this approach is... what is the best way to tell the Windows Service where the UI was installed? I don't want to hard code this because the installer could put it it on the D:\ or who knows where? Once again, I think making the user enter this value in the app.config is a lazy approach on the developer front. Ideas:
- I attempted to use the Process of the UI to find the Environment.CurrentDirectory of the UI process but that doesn't seem to exist. Remember, the UI starts/stops the service so I know the UI will be opened when the service first starts. Anyone have ideas on this front?
- When the UI is installed or starts the first time, I could save the directory to a registry setting... but that seems pretty old school. Is there a better way to do this?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Joel

General Discussions

asked on 16 Jun 2011

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Export to PDF.

Hi,
I have a requirement that I need to export the Chart and the grid (updated the RadChart template to include grid) to PDF.
Is it possible through telerik chart control?

There are some forum explaning about converting the chart into image and put them into PDF, but here in my case there can be multiple charts, which can be viewed using navigation buttons (ex: First, Next, Previous, Last).

Let assume that user won't navigate to any of them, and just try to export them. Then that PDF must contain all the pages (charts).
Is it possible to have those charts without being displayed on the page?

Please reply ASAP.

Thanks,
Nitin.

Chart

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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What would cause a certain data object to not be sortable, while others are?

I have a RadGridView that can be loaded with various different business objects, primarily containing double, int and string members for editing. The columns of some of these objects can be sorted, but on others, no column in the grid will sort. This is despite setting CanUserSortColumns and IsSortable to true. Strangely, grouping and filtering works on these objects. I have removed any custom CellTemplates in case that was the issue.

To figure this out, I attempted to listen to the Sorting event on the grid, but it never fires. Any hint as to what direction I should look? How does the RadGrid determine whether data can be sorted, aside from the xaml input?

GridView

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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Tab Stops disappear in RadRichTextBox

Hi,

we are using/testing RadRichTextBox. What we do is to insert some text and tab stops.
Then we save it as rtf (created with RtfFormatProvider) to a database.
The rtf String in the Databse is correct.
Then we load that string from the database (string still contains tab stops) in the RadRichTextBox again with RtfFormatProvider/RadDocument.
Now all the tab stops are vanished.

Are we doing something wrong, or are tab stops not fully supported ?

Thanks,
Bernhard / Timo

RichTextBox

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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Stacked Bar Chart Only Showing Top Label

Hello,

I recently updated my Telerik controls and have noticed that only on stacked bar charts, only the top label item shows a count and the other data series within the stacked bar charts to not show a label item. Is there a way to enable the label items for the other parts of the chart?

Thanks,
Sean

Chart

answered on 16 Jun 2011

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How to hide the unused column?

Hi,
http://nccu.edu.tw/96356029/view.JPG

Please see the hyperlink picture, how can I hide unused column or let current column fill with RadGridView. It seems I can set AutoGenerateColumn=False, but my application add RadGridVew and bind data programmically, if I set AutoGenerateColumn=False,
the running result of RadGridView will be without data, is there any way I can do?

GridView

answered on 16 Jun 2011

1 answer

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Stop Filter Window from Closing on Blur

I do not want the Filter Window popup to automatically close when it loses focus. This behavior is preventing a touchscreen keyboard from entering text in the filter fields. I want the user to have to explicitly close the popup either by clicking on the x button or something similar.

Please advise.

Thanks

GridView

answered on 16 Jun 2011