I definitely hinted at a bit more visual of an example today in my last blog post in the Telerik Windows Phone 7 MVVM Series – so here we are today with the beta of RadChart for Windows Phone and a couple of examples of how these charts aren’t only insanely fast but easy to use for us developers.  We’ve been working with MVVM for a while now, so rather than taking any time to discuss the benefits of this approach or any related goodness, I want to jump right into the viewmodel first so that we can spend more time talking...

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...

A week after the official release of RadTimeBar for Silverlight and WPF with the Q1 2011 SP1 release, we have some fresh new resources ready for you to watch to start getting the hang of working with RadTimeBar and integration with other RadControls.

Last week I blogged about the Official Release of RadTimeBar, which included walking through some examples and some sample code.  But some of you would rather see it in action along with an expert voice on how this integration can take place - and we heard you!  We have just published three new videos up to Telerik TV...

When we rolled out the Q1 2011 release, there was a surprise control that we included in the release as a Beta version – RadTimeBar.  This control is useful for scenarios where you require a birds-eye view of your time-based data, be it sales history, support volume, or any other statistic that you might want to track over a longer period of time.

The real value in the RadTimeBar control, however, is in the integration scenarios that it offers with other controls from RadControls for Silverlight and WPF.  By utilizing data-centric controls like RadGridView and RadChart with the RadTimeBar, your “birds-eye view”...

There are times when we run into a scenario in which we need point selection on a chart.  Luckily, RadChart for WPF and Silverlight already has this feature - but what if you need to find the closest point to where you selected on a chart?  And what if you have multiple chart series that you are doing this with?  Normally, this would be a bit of a challenge as this involves figuring out where the user clicked, what is around it, etc.

Luckily for us, we have charting wizards like Manol Donev on our team and an aggressive release cycle here at Telerik.

The...

Hey everyone, it is the day you've all been waiting for.  So what makes April 8th so special? 

Today on the live webinar I added the last module to the Silverlight Recruiting Application, both in the code-behind and in the MVVM/Prism versions.  Here is a quick look at the end result:

Pretty neat, right? :)

To get some of the pre-requisites out of the way, to play with this you will need...

• Visual Studio 2008
• Silverlight 3
• WCF RIA Services Beta for VS2008 (last version release for 2k8)

Ideally you'll all have downloaded the Q1 2010 release, but if not I included the...

Shortly after the Q3 2009 release we developed the Sales Dashboard Application for Windows Forms - a composite business application for visualizing a company’s sales force performance. It is built with the Q3 2009 versions of Telerik’s WinForms components, RadChart for WPF, Telerik OpenAccess ORM, and implements the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for WinForms, which helps in the development of smart-client line-of-business (LOB) applications.

Since the interest in this application is still high, we felt the need to have a dedicated place to discuss this application. In case you have not played with it yet, download the source code, and enjoy!

Also check:
Silverlight/WPF Sales...

So a customer emailed into our office yesterday asking about whether RadChart for Silverlight supported a Step chart type.  Well, while we do have a boatload of chart types already, Step is currently not one of them.  But a Step chart is really just a Line chart with a bit of extra work, right? 

With the help of our chart wizard Manol, we were able to show that the LineSeriesDefinition could, in fact, replicate a Step chart.  But that was with setting all points manually and took a bit of thinking to make sure all the steps looked right.  So...

This week Telerik released a service pack for the Q1 2009 RadControls for WPF.  You can get the full details about the release here (http://www.telerik.com/versionnotes.aspx?id=1896), but I wanted to point out a few highlights that might be of interest.

RadGridView

A number of features regarding exporting including the addition of ExcelML, an Exporting event

TAB navigation improvements

Addition of the GridViewComboBox column

and much more

RadGauge

Semi-circle and Quadrant-like styles for Radial Gauges both of which look very sleek.

RadChart

The Stacked Line and Stacked Spline Chart Types were added to the RadChart available types.

RadColorPicker

The Color Picker control allows the users to choose a color from more than 20...

I have had a few people ask me about using the RadChart in the same manner as Performance Monitor (aka PerfMon). If you are not familiar with PerfMon, it is a tool that has been provided with Microsoft Windows for quite some time.  You can open PerfMon by clicking the Start button within Windows, typing “perfmon” in the search box and pressing Enter.  PerfMon is a simple utility that displays performance counters.  There are a wide variety of counters available, from CPU utilization of process threads to how many times the .NET Garbage Collector has run.  The counters PerfMon allows...