With the Q1 2009 SP2 release of RadControls for Silverlight we introduced an enhancement of the LocalizationManager class. Two new properties were added to enrich the localization support in the suite - DefaultCulture and DefaultResourceManager. With the new properties you no longer have to always create an instance of the LocalizationManager. Here is a brief description of the two properties:

• DefaultCulture
  A static property of type System.Globalization.CultureInfo.
  Use this one to change localized values without changing the UI culture of the current thread.
• DefaultResourceManager
  A static property of type System.Resources.ResourceManager.
  Use this one to change localized values using a new resource manager, ...

As we are continuously working on the localization of all our controls, we'd like to share how the localization is actually progressing at our side.

With the RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2009 SP1 we introduced the LocalizationManager. Actually we have used it to localize the RadUpload control for Silverlight. Now we have four more controls localized right from the box: RadTreeView, RadMediaPlayer, RadColorSelector and RadColorPicker. In the attached example you can see them localized. Another control to be localized soon is the RadGridView control. The LocalizationManager allows you to easily localize any of our controls. In addition, we ...

With the upcoming Q1 release Telerik will include an official version of the RadToolBar control in the RadControls for Silverlight bundle. RadToolBar will mimic the functionalities and behavior of the VS toolbar with its Strip and Overflow areas.  All the items in the toolbar will jump between the strip and the overflow depending on the toolbar’s size. In addition, the developer will be able to stick items into one of these areas using a single property  - OverflowMode.

RadToolBar will also support Style Selector for item containers. We pre-defined styles for many of the regular controls – button, textbox ...

We are very excited  to announce that our Q1 release will feature a CTP edition of Telerik RadEditor for Silverlight. This initial version will support the most basic set of features but you can rest assured that there is a lot more cooking. RadEditor integrates three of our new controls for Silverlight – RadToolbar, RadToobarTray and RadColorPicker. The first two will give you fine-grained control over the positioning of the elements you choose to insert in your editor. The customizable RadColorPicker is used for choosing font and highlight colors and offers a well-known tool to end-users. Below you can find a ...

Join Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist Todd Anglin as he introduces you to Telerik's brand new suite of components for Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0. This is the first time the RadControls for Silverlight 2.0 have ever been shown in public, so don't miss your opportunity to be among the first to see what Telerik is doing in the Silverlight space.  Anyone considering Silverlight development in 2008 should attend this event to learn how leading .NET UI component vendor Telerik is going to make it easy to develop professional applications on this brand new framework with very little code.

The webcast will be on ...

Silverlight is a Blast!

And instead of trying to convince you, we present you a well-known game in its silverlit clothes. The minesweeper! It adds to other games that in the past several weeks have shown the ease with which you can use Silverlight to create online interaction and games. It uses no fancy frameworks but underlines the simplicity and straightforwardness of Silverlight development.

The number of mines and the rows/columns are configurable. To mark a mine - instead to click with the right mouse button, click with the left mouse button while holding the CTRL or SHIFT key.


Try the game:

Here at Telerik we are constantly working with the new cutting edge technologies. As Silverlight 1.1 alpha hit the road we were keen to research all the new things we can do with this new technology ...

But there was one little problem - the lack of help and documentation. Our experience with WPF help us a lot to get into the new technology, but Silverlight is a new platform and it has its differences from WPF.

So when we were contacted by the O'Reilly to write a book for Silverlight 1.1 we decided that this will be a very ...

While working on the second release for 2007, Telerik decided to surprise its clients by creating a Silverlight game.
The idea was simple. A registered user enters his or her weight and logs in. This weight contributes to the common goal which is to lift what is on the other side of the rope.
  
The game was developed using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh.
We had couple of concerns while developing it, though. First of all we did not know how many people have already installed the 1.1 plug-in. Also we were not sure if the current game ...

NOTE: From the very beginning I would like to state that this custom solution is temporary and will most probably change with the next release of Silverlight Plug-In.
There is no straightforward approach to changing the Silverlight Download logo.

However, a workaround exists.

1) Download the modified TelerikSilverlight.js and add it to your project



2) Within the Default.aspx of your project, reference TelerikSilverlight.js 

<script type="text/javascript" src="TelerikSilverlight.js"></script>

3) Create a javascript function right bellow the previous line of code

<script type="text/javascript">
    function GetInstallHtml ()
    {
        var imgUrl = "http://www.telerik.com/images/editor/OverviewImages/SilverlightLogo.gif";
        var myInstallHtml = 'This is my custom text<br/>' + 
                                        '<div ...

Just hours after Microsoft announced the availability of the final version of Silverlight 1.0 (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/09/04/silverlight-1-0-released-and-silverlight-for-linux-announced.aspx), Telerik made RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight officially available.

Being the first vendor to offer third-party UI controls for Silverlight, Telerik is dedicated to closely follow the release schedule of Microsoft and roll-out its tools immediately after the respective updates/releases of the Silverlight framework.

Telerik RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight are a new generation of UI controls for building Rich Interactive Applications based on Microsoft Silverlight 1.0. The product introduces the notion of control-based development, which is originally missing in the framework, and requires no ...