I know many of you like our WinForms "Desert" theme:
 

 
I like it very much too. But I've been using it for quite some time and it started to kind of bore me. I just wish it wasn't so orange-ish. Then I got impressed by the UI of Windows Live's set of desktop applications, which have the cool option to change the skin color - on the fly:
 
 
 
Its very neat and I just can't get bored using this kind of UI.

Our Windows Form components on the other hand have a very extensible way of skinning, but still, you are...

We are just a few days away from releasing the full RadControls for Silverlight suite which with its advanced and unique capabilities will help you accelerate your Silverlight development.  As we follow closely the Microsoft release schedule, the suite was released and updated right after Microsoft Silverlight2 RTW release, when we showed you two new controls RadCoverFlow and RadContextMenu. Here are the novelties that you can expect with the upcoming release on November 5:

• RadGauge
• Great new integration examples showing our new Drag&Drop functionality, Page Navigation functionality, Databinding and Telerik advanced media components. New QSF design.
• New Theming mechanism allowing you to...

What better source for tips and tricks for your beloved Reporting product, than a blog spot right from the kitchen where the product is ‘mixed’. As of this post, we would like to start a small series of tips and tricks that make a developers’ life sweeter. We’re not going to discuss general topics, so if you’re looking for answers for one of those questions – please review our documentation and our forums.
As you can guess, the sub-report item, which lets you display one report within another report is widely used in Telerik Reporting.  It lets you compose complex reports from...

As the official Q3 release approaches, we decided to launch a preview of our controls that will officially become a part of the "RadControls for WPF" bundle. These are our RadGauge, RadChart and RadScheduler controls.

We have been continuously working on these during the last several months to improve and further advance the controls to let you build complete Line-Of-Business applications with our full range of controls for WPF.

With the wide variety of LOB controls and the consistent skins these controls provide, we aim at easing the process of building a complete and flexible UI of desktop applications.

You can check...

 All you need to create your own custom skin for RadGrid is to copy one of our existing skins and change desired CSS settings. To do this you need to perform following steps:

• Copy one of our existing skins (for example Gray skin) in your application.
• Replace all occurrences of "_Gray" with your skin name (for example "_MyCustomSkin") in the CSS file.
• Change urls for the images (and other desired settings) in the CSS file.
• Register your CSS file in the HEAD tag of your page.
• Set Skin="MyCustomSkin" and EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" for RadGrid.

 

The result: Your own custom grid look and...

PDC is in full force at the LA Convention Center. The keynote was somewhat bland, but the big news of the day is Windows Azure. Microsoft's cloud services offering, Azure promises to allow developers to host and manage their applications in the cloud, scaling storage and computing resources on demand without concern for the infrastructure that will support them. With Azure, developers will be have access to the entire spectrum of Microsoft LOB development technologies (SQL Services, Sharepoint Services, .NET Services, etc) in the cloud. Attendees of PDC will get early access to an Azure CTP, so keep an eye...

I thought it might be interesting to do a quick rundown of the Visual Style Builder.  This tool comes with your Telerik WinForms control suite and provides a quick and easy way to change the look of a control.  The Visual Style Builder is located under the Telerik directory in your Start menu.

It allows you to modify a variety of settings for a given control to build your own themes.  For example, if you select the RadButton control under the File | LoadControl menu, you will see it displayed center screen.  As you move your mouse cursor over the control...

With our upcoming version of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (early November) you will be able to bind our grid even if the grid is in edit mode. RadGrid will locate automatically all built-in column editors (GridNumericColumn, GridDropDownColumn, GridDateTimeColumn, etc.) and you can get old/new values directly from the grid client-side API.

You can use client-side editing completely codeless with templates as well. The requirement here is to set ID for the control to be equal to desired data field.

Example:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn HeaderText="CompanyName">
<EditItemTemplate>
   <telerik:RadTextBox ID="CompanyName" runat="server" />
</EditItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

We have introduced also three new client-side methods for GridTableView to get new...

No, Microsoft hasn't announced any special changes to the framework. Instead, one of the first news items out of PDC (before the conference has even started, no less) is that they'll be changing the .NET branding. That's right, the tired old .NET logo we've been staring at for the past 8 years is getting a facelift. For those of you who haven't yet read about it from Scott Hanselman or Joe Stagner, I thought I'd show it to you first here.

 

 

I must admit, I like the new design. What do you think?...

Ok, Todd and Kevin already blogged about our presence at PDC this year and I'll second them. We have so many things to show that it's a petty PDC is only 4 days long, we'll need at least 2 weeks to show everything. Of course we have to show mercy to all the Telerik guys who will be nonstop at the Telerik booth so 4 days should be enough :)
 
Todd and Kevin already mentioned all the products, new features and releases we're about to demo at our booth. We'll also demo 2 "secret" projects which will show you the combined power of WPF and the new ways...