Most charts show one point at a time on a Cartesian (x/y) coordinate. That is, a single point might indicate that July sales were $525MM while August sales (a second point) were $350MM.  The chart might also show a line connecting the two points to show the change in value.  But each individual entry is typically a single point on the coordinate system.

With stocks, we’d like to show four bits of information for each entry:

• The opening price
• The closing price
• The high for the day
• The low for the day

There is no good way to do this by drawing points on an...

Last week I traveled up to Shanghai, China to speak at the 10x10 event: bringing in 10 tech “pioneers” to speak for 10 minutes each to a crowd of entrepreneurs. I put pioneers in quotes, since there were 9 pioneers plus me speaking.

It was a great way to connect with the startup scene in China. The event was sponsored by Chinaccelerator, an early stage startup accelerator that has 10 companies in a cohort right now. I met with most of the 10 companies and was very impressed; most, but not all, were doing mobile or social media startups. People in the West understand that Facebook and...

With this post I would like to show you how you can customize easily paging behavior in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch using Telerik RadDataPager for Silverlight.

1) Create new LightSwitch project, connect to desired data source and add new screen:

2) Add new Silverlight Class Library to the same solution where you can implement your own custom logic:

3) Add references to Telerik and LightSwitch binaries and declare RadGridView and...

Introduction

Hello and welcome to our “First Look” of Telerik’s Windows 8 UI Controls. In this post, we are going to specifically target Windows 8 Applications built using HTM5/JS/CSS3 and our new Windows 8 control suite.

Have you ever wanted to create a Metro Application that had a more powerful ComboBox with functionality such as auto-complete or placeholder text? What about an AutoCompleteBox with the same functionality, but found that control completely missing? Maybe you are writing an application that needs the user to select from a list of World Countries, but don’t know where to start. In this blog post,...

Surprisingly, Visual Studio for Windows 8 XAML does not come with either a date or a time picker. Not to worry, we’ve got you covered.

The RadControls For Metro suite of controls includes a very flexible DatePicker and TimePicker control that I’ll illustrate in this posting.

To get started, be sure to add a reference to the RadControls for Metro to your application.

As usual, we’ll begin with the data. This time the data is very simple. We start by creating a class representing a hotel or conference reservation,

public class Reservation
   {
       public DateTime ArriveDate { get; set; }
       public DateTime DepartDate { get; set; }
   }

Notice that the two properties are of...

You didn’t think we would just leave you hanging did you?  Your Ultimate Collection license code automatically turns into a DevCraft Complete license once activated. All you need to do is follow the instructions on your license card and go to www.telerik.com/promocode to activate your license. What happens if you won the license a year or two ago and have one of our Ultimate Collection CDs? Well, first off what are you waiting for?!  Secondly, we want you to get access to the Telerik goodness as fast as possible so your code will also turn into a DevCraft Complete License. However,...

The ribbon (or RadRibbonBar, as we have named it) is among the most tempting-to-use looking and yet somewhat neglected controls. True, it has received some Microsoft love with being the core command component in the Office suite, as well as being more deeply integrated in the soon-to-be-released Windows8, but overall it's not been used that much.

Main reason being “why use it”. That, by the way, is an excellent question.

So why use the ribbon?

To answer that, let's first analyse the control and its purpose: it looks like a tabbed command area; a tabbed toolbar if you will. For the most part,...

In my last blog post of this series I covered the element inspector and network resources tab of modern day web browsers’ developer tools. Although there is a large set of what I like to call “modern” web browsers out there I decided to only take a look at three of them; Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 9.

Today I want to continue this series and cover another useful aspect of web development tools – the Scripts tab. This tab not only allows you to inspect all of the JavaScript that has been downloaded to the client, it also allows you to...