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As of Q1 2010 RadGrid will be equipped with a new filtering menu – a powerful and flexible feature the interest in which was sparked by RadGrid’s MVC counterpart offered by Telerik. It will be a sub-part of RadGrid's header context menu and will allow for filtering the grid's data on two conditions related with a logical AND operator:

Perhaps, many of you are already eager to know how the new feature should be switched on/off. For this purpose a new property has been introduced into the RadGrid control -RadGrid.EnableHeaderContextFilterMenu/GridTableView.EnableHeaderContextFilterMenu. In addition, it is important ...

One common request that we are receiving recently is how to integrate the RadChart and RadContextMenu controls so they play nicely together.

A typical real-life scenario would probably require that each ChartItem should display different (context-specific) set of menu items. In order to address the increased interest in this functionality we decided to add a new integration example for the Q1 2010 release but for those of you that need something working right now, here is a quick overview of the required steps to add context-specific menu to Bar series items in RadChart (this can be applied to any series ...

Ever wanted to export a Telerik report from a Silverlight application?

This is easily accomplished by instantiating the ReportServiceClient class, which plays the role of a proxy to the Telerik Report Service. Use the RenderAsync method of the ReportServiceClient to specify that you want to render the report. This method invokes the respective method on the server (remember that it serves as proxy) that would return the rendered report. Check the code below for more details.

Since we are using an asynchronous method and we do not know when the render would finish, we need to handle the RenderCompleted event. In the RenderCompleted event we get ...

.NET Ninja in training, Peter Bahaa, once again returns to show us how to build a WCF .NET Data Service (aka Astoria) using Telerik OpenAccess entities and the Data Services Wizard beta 1.

Telerik Data Service Wizard Beta1-Astoria from Stephen Forte on Vimeo.

 

As Q1 2010 is approaching we thought it would be a good idea to tell you where we are currently with our new Visual Style Builder (VSB) for Windows Forms. After several months of hard work we are almost done with an application, which may be easily described as Expression Blend, but for Windows Forms.

The most important aspect of the new VSB is that it will decrease the amount of time needed to create or tweak themes from days to hours, and even minutes! We have considerably simplified the work flow to allow you to focus on more ...

.NET Ninja in training, Peter Bahaa, shows us how to build a WCF Endpoint using Telerik OpenAccess entities and the Data Services Wizard beta 1.

Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1-WCF from Stephen Forte on Vimeo.

One more RadGridView behavior frequently requested by our clients is to display a message when there are no records to display. A typical real life scenario would be a RadGridView displaying a list of search results. When there are no results found we would like to have a message like “No results found!” displayed in RadGridView.

 

 

 

If you download the project above , you will see that if you get the EmptyDataTemplateBehavior.cs into your project, setting the empty data template will be as easy as writing a few lines of XAML :

<telerik...

When the data layer does not allow to perform calculations we often need to harness the UI.

Here is a a simple case  - in our business object we have the Price and the Count properties. We will have RadGridView to calculate the Total  for us in a calculated column.

 

 

If you peek into the sample project you will notice we are using a pretty standard Silverlight approach :

We bind the value of the calculated column with a Binding Converter :

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn  
  Header="Total"  
  Background="Bisque"...

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