The first big bang for this year brought to you a great set of components for your enterprise applications – RadPivotGrid, RadPdfViewer, as well as improvements in RadChartView. Today, I would like to shed more light on RadPdfViewer and what it can do for your application and its end-users.

Q1 2013 brings an entirely refactored export functionality in RadEditor – you can now plug external libraries to do the HTML to other format conversion. Read on for an example and stay tuned for more samples that will come in the next posts in the series.

Just a few days remain until the official unveiling of our 2013 Q1 release. Be the first, to take a glimpse into the pack of hot stuff we baked for you.

Following the tradition of extending the accessibility support for our controls, we are glad to announce that, starting with the Q3 2011 Beta release, we have added keyboard support to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX TreeList control as well. This enables the user to carry out most major operations of the control with a few handy shortcut keys.

Some of the more important actions accessible through the keyboard are:

Action	Shortcut key
focusing the control on the page	Ctrl + Y
single, multiple and range selection	Ctrl/Shift + Space
expand/collapse of items	Left/Right arrow keys
navigating the active row	Up/Down arrow keys
insert/update/delete operations	Enter and Delete keys

You can set the preferred keys and other...

Every now and then when discussing the RadChart export options with customers, we receive the inquiry whether it is possible to export the control to PDF as well. The answer is – YES, it is definitely possible!

While the chart control itself does not provide this feature out-of-the-box, you can easily build upon its export-to-image functionality and export it to PDF using our Documents Format Providers (also part of the RadControls for Silverlight suite).

Basically, all you need to do is construct a document model based on the contents you want to export, and then pass the document to the PdfFormatProvider. Note...

Over the past few days I worked on an image caching mechanism in the PDF Rendering Extension and I am happy to announce that the achieved output size reduction was more than significant.

The Problem

When a report contains the same binary image many times, the PDF Rendering Extension has no way of knowing that it is actually one and the same and renders it many times thus wasting disc space. For an illustration of this case imagine that you have your company's logo in the page header and your report is 200 pages long.

The Solution: Enter Cyclic Redundancy Check

I've implemented a central...

Hi everyone, by means of introduction my name is Martin Vassilev and I am a support officer with the Windows Forms team here at Telerik. As of late, we noticed increased interest towards RadGridView data export capabilities.

What we have always told our customers is that the RadGridView will have only basic Microsoft Excel export capability, until we are able to implement a commercial grade format converter here at Telerik. However, that requires quite some time, and customers can’t wait right? What was needed was a quick, easy, stable way of exporting RadGridView content to formats such as RTF, PDF and...