There’s an emerging trend to integrate cool new silverlight controls into existing production asp.net solutions. And why wouldn’t it be there? There are many  asp.net applications in production out there that have been working quite well and don’t need to be replaced by a completely new technology. Wouldn’t it be nice, however, to spice them up a little with some rich silverlight visualization tools? This is exactly what a lot of our customers have been asking for lately. Well, here you can see some resources we published that will help anyone who wants to plug in RadChart for Silverlight in...

The WinForms team has been hard at work on the new RadDock control since the beginning of the year.  Things are coming together and I will be presenting a webinar this Thursday, 11 a.m. Eastern time, to preview the control.  You will get a first look at the new RadDock control and we will even discuss how easy it will be to port to the new RadDock.  I hope you will make some time to join me to see what’s coming and provide feedback on what you would like to see.

The new and improved RadDock for WinForms is coming and...

The theme engine of RadControls for Silverlight is quite powerful and provides the developers with the ability to apply application-wide theme on all RadControls, as well as specific theme on a single control. If the theme does not contain the needed styles, the controls fallback to their default styles, so you could create an application theme for just a couple of controls and the rest will display with their default styles. We also provide styles for the standard controls, such as Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, etc. which enables you to create application with consistent look and feel.

Each theme is distributed as...

Recently we received several requests for an example, demonstrating how to put a virtualized GridView in a ComboBox popup. The best way to do this in my opinion is to replace the ItemsPresenter of the ComboBox with a GridView. There is some plumbing that has to be done, but I managed to separate it in two attached behaviors. The original idea is described in my blog post for TreeView in ComboBox which I recently updated with the latest control template of RadComboBox for Silverlight. The principle is exactly the same with RadGridView and it should work with very minor adjustments with...

As most of you probably know, our valued partner Falafel Software recently introduced on-demand training and consulting services for Telerik tools. Whether you need a dedicated program to help your developers get up-to-speed with Telerik products, or simply require technical guidance on a project, Falafel Software is there to help.

The latest set of comprehensive training sessions that Falafel announced will be dedicated on OpenAccess - Telerik’s enterprise-grade ORM. You will have the chance to explore OpenAccess from the ground up and acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for building your own data access pluming for desktop and web applications using only a...

I’ve made small demo application on how to search Twitter using Twitter REST API and RadGridView for Silverlight: 

To download Twitter ATOM response you can use simple WebClient:

if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text))
{
    WebClient client = new WebClient();
    client.DownloadStringCompleted += newDownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(client_DownloadStringCompleted);
    if(!client.IsBusy)
        client.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(String.Format(urlFormat, TextBox1.Text, pageSize, currentPageIndex)));
}

and you can parse the response using XDocument.Parse() method:

XNamespace atomNamespace = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
RadGridView1.ItemsSource = from item in...

I put together a quick introduction to the RadCarousel for WinForms control and how you can get started working with it.  I have shown this control to a number of people during conferences and they always think it is a WPF control instead of WinForms.  It is really easy to get things going and simple to work with.  I hope you will take a look at the...

Have you ever run into a situation where you needed to allow a user to select which columns they want to see in a grid?  If you are using the RadGridView for WinForms you don’t have to lift a finger to implement this functionality.  The Column Chooser is available for the RadGridView out of the box.  Simply bind your data and you are ready to go.  You can access the Column Chooser by right clicking on any column and selecting Column Chooser from the context menu.  The Column Chooser is displayed as a floating window next to the application. 

You can now drag...

I've been asked a few times by clients how to customize the web report viewer's skins, so they can better match their company identity. I would try to describe 'the process' in this post.

We are trying to stay close to the approach used for the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, so one who has used our web controls would be pleasantly surprised to find two familiar properties in Telerik Reporting - Skin and SkinsPath. As their names suggest, the first one is used to specify the name of the skin, while the second one specifies the path where this skin can be found.

Let's start with...

A Most Interesting Hello (Real) World Application

Sometimes you can get away with a small application to show off some features. But dragging rectangles around is just not enough. You need a TreeView, you need a GridView, ListBox and a good user feedback. Why not place everything in a Docking Control?

Some examples of DragDrop can be a bit unrealistic. You do not always have your elements defined in XAML. You cannot always have a reference to the containers you want to drag/drop. So we need to go a bit more real-world.

What I tried to do is create a simple application that...