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Introducing Printing for Telerik GridView and Scheduler for WinForms

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:30 GMT

Have you ever wondered how to print your Telerik RadGridView and RadScheduler instances for WinForms? I guess you have. Yet, this is one of the most voted features in our Public Issue Tracking System. The good news is that Q1 2011 is close and printing support for RadGridView and RadScheduler will be a part of it.

About Telerik RadTreeView for WinForms and its Supercharged engine

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:41:33 GMT

In Q1 2011 we introduced a highly improved version of the RadTreeView control which had all of its internal parts rebuilt in order to support full UI virtualization and customization. This allowed us to attach a new data engine that provided many new and useful features such as built-in filtering and sorting independent from the external data-sources, and support for CRUD operations. But "Is the new RadTreeView really faster than the previous one"?

Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with Telerik RadPanorama. Today.

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:04:18 GMT

Or how to uncover the touch horizons for your applications. The once unnamed Telerik RadPanorama control is here to make your Windows Forms applications rock! Together with the Touch API we have introduced, it brings the full power of touch-optimized applications to your Windows 7 users...

Introducing Industry's First Touch API for Windows Forms components

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:36:59 GMT

We are very proud to be the first (and still only) Windows Forms component suite to provide full multi-touch support and API. As discussed in the sneak peek blog Get Ready to Touch'n'Roll with RadControls for WinForms, the powerful touch API that our components expose allow you to handle the touch gestures that occur on the screen and take some actions depending on what your touch scenario is. Now that Q3 2011 is a fact, ...

RadControls for WinForms Q3 2011 suite is here introducing touch suppo

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:24:15 GMT

RadControls for WinForms Q3 2011 suite is here introducing RadPanorama, full multi-touch support and a lot more

The Ultimate Scheduler Touch Experience for WinForms

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:46:04 GMT

'Touch' is everywhere around us. We use it daily in our lives thanks to the touch-enabled devices - mobile phones, tables, kiosk stations. Touch navigation just feels more natural and pleasant to the end-user than using some kind of a pointing device, such as a mouse or a track-ball. Today, we are going to reveal....

Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:29:07 GMT

The once unnamed RadPanorama control is here to make your Windows Forms applications rock! Together with the Touch API we have introduced in our previous blog, it brings the full power of touch-optimized applications to your Windows 7 users. If you have not heard anything about RadPanorama before, let us introduce it with a few words. Basically, this new control allows you to represent a small amount of data in the form of tiles that the end-user is able to smoothly scroll left or right with a gesture, just like in Win8, and to reorder the tiles with drag and drop.

Some useful listbox code that I found

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:17:52 GMT

How to make context menu items that will move listbox items up and down in the listbox object

Writing to the Windows Event Log

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:16:28 GMT

Nice blog post on using the Windows Event log

Locking the Workstation Programmatically

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:16:34 GMT

Microsoft Windows operating systems include the ability to lock the workstation. This leaves programs running but prevents access by unauthorised users, requiring a password to unlock the computer and continue working.

Add controls or buttons dynamically at runtime in winforms

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:20:44 GMT

Adding Dynamic Buttons Or Controls at runtime and Event Handling In Winforms or windows forms applications.

Extending the ImageBox component to display the contents of a PDF file

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:11:50 GMT

Article describing how to extend the ImageBox control to support displaying PDF files using the GhostScript API in a Windows Forms application.

C# - ThreadPool and Windows Forms

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:57:33 GMT

This is a more complex example of using the c# thread pool in a windows forms application. The goal here is to background a task but still keep some / part of the interface active and not freeze as a task is running

Owner Drawn Controls

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:42:34 GMT

Free code samples to create owner drawn listboxes, comboboxes, and menus in windows forms.

Windows Form Design in .NET-Interview Questions

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:24:37 GMT

You can find collection of interview questions for windows form design.These questions are asked in most popular software companies.

CSS Syntax Highlighting in the DigitalRune Text Editor Control

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:26:59 GMT

An article which describes how to create a definition ruleset to allow CSS formatting in the DigitalRune/SharpDevelop Text Editor Controls, and how to load custom definition rulesets into the control.

VIBlend Controls for WinForms v7.0

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:40:54 GMT

New Windows Forms Split Container control and New Features across all controls.

Friday Interview: PDF Component Guru & Tall Components CEO, Frank Rem

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:38:16 GMT

We've interviewed PDF expert and owner of Tall Components Frank Rem - for the full transcript please visit the site

Now Alvas.FileControls is free

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:42:14 GMT

Alvas.FileControls now can be used in any of your projects for free. Sources still cost money.

Now Alvas.Shapeforms is free

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:42:14 GMT

Alvas.Shapeforms now can be used in any of your projects for free. Sources still cost money.

Keyoti release RapidSpell Web .NET v5.0

Thu, 26 May 2011 18:55:35 GMT

Keyoti are pleased to release version 5 of RapidSpell Desktop .NET. New features in v5; - Sentence capitalization correction (auto or manual). - TX Text Control v16 support added. - Ignore Once added to 'as you type'. - Easier to use custom context menus from 3rd party control kits. - RapidSpellDialog support for DataGridView added (as you type already exists, see Help). - Compressed dictionaries - Many small bug fixes and improvements in behavior. RapidSpell allows Win Forms developers to add as-you-type and dialog spell checking functionality to .NET applications. RapidSpell Desktop .NET features an open API for easy customization. The spell checker engine is 'decoupled' from the GUI making it possible to use custom word parsers with the GUI. Designed to .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0 specification, RapidSpell fully supports all versions of Visual Studio .NET. For a free evaluation please visit http://keyoti.com/products/rapidspell/dotNet/

May the fourth be with you as you enter devtoolcafe - worlds 1st ...

Wed, 04 May 2011 12:58:28 GMT

Hungerford, UK, May 4th 2011 - Today, devtoolcafe, the online marketplace community for developer tools & software components launched their new global website for professional developers. devtoolcafe is an online resource with an extensive product directory at the heart of the site. Wrapped around that is a community lead information layer covering reviews, case studies, tips & tricks, how to articles and much more. devtoolcafe is one website split up into a several platforms to suit the whole of the professional developer community - if you are a .net specialist and are looking to research grid components or a Java guru looking to share your knowledge on file upload components, then devtoolcafe is the place to be. devtoolcafe is currently divided up into 10 micro sites - .Net Winforms, .Net Asp, .Net WPF, Silverlight, .Net MVC, Java, ActiveX, C++ and Delphi. To read the full press release please visit the site http://www.devtoolcafe.com

Enabling shell styles for the ListView and TreeView controls in C#

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:54:40 GMT

Article which describes how to display ListView and TreeView controls using Visual Styles in Windows Vista or higher via the SetWindowTheme API.

Simple Popup Control

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:12:06 GMT

Great component! A popup for every situation

Visual .NET Development simplicity meets Web 2.0 (finally)

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:40:23 GMT

If you miss the good ole' visual .NET development practices with the move to the web applications world, then Visual WebGui should be a great interest to you. There is a free webinar this Thursday.