Happy Thursday to all you XAML-lovers out there! I'm back from the trenches with a new initiative aimed at teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF control suites. Starting today, every Thursday you'll be able to find a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control in a little series we're calling XAMLflix. The best part ...

Since Q3 2011 we have changed the default drag API used. It allows creating more complex scenario as well as building MVVM friendly drag behaviors. However, it does not support drag arrow which, although not very popular feature is still used. Thus, when arrow was required, we have suggesting using legacy execution mechanism.

In this blog I will write how to create your own drag arrow using DragDropManager events. ...

RadMap provides a rich set of geocoordinate-enabled shapes that can be defined and displayed onto the map surface .There are scenarios, however, where you would like to do more than just position a shape onto the map. This blogpost will demonstrate how to manipulate each individual segment of line/polyline/polygon shape based on mouse input from the user. For example we will select (highlight) a point, and drag the selected object ...

If you’re like me and you enjoy reading developer controls documentation (who doesn’t?), you may have noticed a new addition to the online documentation today for both RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a new effort we are launching alongside the Q3 2011 release – Telerik Patterns & Practices:

Our first series for Telerik P&P is in direct response to a customer ...

Introduction

JustDecompile is a new, free developer productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling. In the past it has only worked with .NET assemblies, but today it also works with Silverlight XAP files. I’m going to walk you through a sample of using this functionality.

Lets get started

Head over to Telerik.com and click on the Download Beta button. After everything is downloaded and installed then ...

Q3 2011 enriches our XAML suites with 6 new controls for Silverlight and 7 for WPF.

ChartView for Silverlight | WPF  
Our brand new ChartView control empowers users to understand and analyze complex data and ensures great performance for your applications requiring rich data visualization applications. The new architecture comes to serve the numerous requests for improvements in our existing RadChart control. We decided to build this new ...

Once again the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight have been noticed, and in a big way!  During the fall DevConnections the judges looked long and hard at all of the ASP.Net and Silverlight control suites on the market and decided that our humble suite would be the winner.  Check the post here from 'Connections for the group shot of our our staff at the conference.

Of course, people are probably wondering ...

After a long journey through building up various aspects of the CRM demo here in the LOB Chronicles, we’re finally at the point that we can start talking about the different controls that we are using to better display and organize data within the application. If you recall the last episode in which the topic of UI consistency was discussed, these are going to be working within that uniform ...

I’ve just posted up a new video on Telerik TV to help folks working in Silverlight understand how to automate tests around popup child windows: Automating Silverlight Popup Child Windows with Test Studio

Make sure to view the video in HD for best clarity!

We have taken quite an adventure in chronicling the new Silverlight CRM demo and all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making new demos for our site, but now we finally get to talk about the really fun stuff – UI. I know, I know, depending on what hat you are wearing at your company you may be thinking “Hey, I loved the previous posts on MEF (here and ...