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XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF

the telerik blogs — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadCalculator and RadGauge. This week we will be taking a look at RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF.

What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Teleriks way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Teleriks XAML suite. Each and every Tuesday and Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and paste the code between frameworks.

Be sure to check out www.telerik.com/xamlflix for all the videos!

Meet RadCoverFlow

RadCoverFlow is a useful tool that can be used to navigate through a collection of items. These items can be any UI Element such as an image. It gives you flexibility to change camera position and reflection opacity and much much more.

Getting Started with RadCoverFlow In this video, we will see how easy it is to get started with RadCoverFlow. We will begin by adding images to RadCoverFlow and navigating through them. We will wrap up with adding additional items to RadCoverFlow such as a rectangle and custom user control. (Download the Project)
Customize the Visual Experience of RadCoverFlow In this video, we will learn how the visual experience of RadCoverFlow can be easily changed by several properties. From determining the Offset, Rotation, and even the ReflectionHeight, RadCoverFlow has you covered. (Download the Project)
Integrating RadCoverFlow with the ListBox In this video, we are going to show how easy it is to integrate RadCoverFlow with other controls. This demo covers integration with the ListBox control to bind to the SelectedIndex property.(Download the Project)

Wrap-Up & Share Your Thoughts

Hopefully youve seen here just how quickly and easily you can add RadCoverFlow in your next line-of-business application. And as a reminder, this is only one of the controls offered in the Silverlight/WPF suite. So, feel free to download your own copy of the Silverlight and WPF control suite right now.

Also, tell us what you want to see in the future. Whether it is new controls, additional features or content based off of existing controls, drop a comment in this post.

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Gestating your Metro Style App with Cocoon

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF to compose a navigable application.CocoonCocoon is a framework to support the development of .Net Windows 8 Metro-style applications, in particular those that link to web services. It simplifies accessing, displaying and editing data using standard...

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WPF: Sliding Image Control Part 1 of Sliding Controls Collection

The Code Project Latest Articles — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Sliding Image Control is a part of Sliding Controls, a small but useful WPF custom control collection....

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Spell Checker Web Service - Using a WPF TextBox

The Code Project Latest Articles — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This article demonstrates the way we can use WPF Textbox to check for spelling errors and using it via web service....

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Making Mayhem with Volume Control

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Why, hello there! We are going to pick up where we left off at the end of our Coding4Fun video. In the video we built a reaction that increments the volume level on the computer. We are going to expand from there to make a reaction that enables you to set the volume level to a specified volume.MayhemVolumeStart.zip file contains the class library project all set up with the NuGet package references and the reaction that increments the volume.The first step we are going to take is to add the additional...

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Load the same assembly with different versions

The Code Project Latest Articles — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Load different version of same assemblies in the wpf application...

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I see what you`re hearing... With the WPF Sound Visualization Library

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's WPF Wednesday is a library that I think some of you will have some fun with... I came across this project by accident, but the more I looked at it the cooler I thought it was.Do audio stuff? Need equalizer like controls? A running time digital clock? Display Album Art for an MP3? A Spectrum Analyzer? Want to visualize audio waveforms as it plays? You'll want this...WPF Sound Visualization LibraryThe WPF Sound Visualization Library is a collection of WPF Controls for graphically displaying...

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Brand New WPF Website & XAML Support Lifecycle Updates

the telerik blogs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In anticipation of the brand new Q1 2012 release, we were hard at work behind the scenes ensuring that the forthcoming releases of the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF were chock full of new goodies for all the developers out there. But we've also been working on a few other little gems, including a brand new website as well as an update to our support lifecycle and approach to developing the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF. Read on for more...

WPF - Streamlined Content and a Metro Makeover

One of the huge efforts we have been hard at work on is a complete revamp of the RadControls for WPF website! As you may have noticed, we already did this for the RadControls for Silverlight product page and have gotten tons of positive feedback on how it makes content easier to find, provides a better picture of what each individual control can add to your application, and on top of all that, looks clean, refined, and Metro-tastic! Heres a before and after look at the WPF section of the site:

Before:

After:

Looking pretty sweet, right? Let us know what you think about the changes and anything else we can do to make the browsing experience even better.

Support Lifecycles

Another thing that we have had our thinking caps on about is how to continue supporting the previous versions of Silverlight and WPF now that Silverlight 5 has shipped and WPF 4.5 is on the horizon. While we would like to continue offering support for previous versions until the end of time, this is unrealistic for a few reasons.

First of all, WPF 4 introduced some important new features that we didnt have in WPF 3.5, my favorite of which being the VisualStateManager that we all know and love in Silverlight. Maintaining a codebase between SL4/5 and WPF3.5/4 means we have to include two separate implementations of how our styles and templates work, which makes every theme take that much more time to implement and test, not to mention the support headache of trying to maneuver the same types of customizations across these different implementations.

Beyond this, there are distinct advantages from a component vendors perspective to utilizing the latest version of the framework. We can make better, higher-performance controls by utilizing the latest and greatest features found in Silverlight 5 and WPF 4. If we dont stop making new controls for the older frameworks, there will be noticeable differences in both functionality and performance, meaning that GanttView for WPF3.5 would not be nearly as high performance of a control as GanttView for WPF4.0. And when it comes down to it, were dedicated to bringing you the best, most responsive, highest performance controls on the market, so we need to adjust as the frameworks do to continue delivering more than expected to our customers.

So check out the brand new Silverlight and WPF support lifecycles and be sure to plan your projects appropriately! Were not dropping support for Silverlight 4 or WPF 3.5 entirely yet, so you can continue to receive bug fixes and minor improvements in those suites for a little while to come, but for new development were focusing on what the new frameworks can offer. As a developer you should strive to do the same, taking advantage of the latest and greatest to make the best applications possible.

Dont Miss It!!

In case you missed the greatness that was Q1 2012 webinar week - don't worry! All of our webinars are available on-demand from Telerik TV. But we'll do you one better, head over to the Webinars page (you should have this bookmarked already, FYI) and we've got links to all of the Q1 2012 webinars available, no searching required!

After you've checked out the recorded webinars, feel free to tune into our new XAMLflix campaign to accelerate your learning of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF suites. We just finished our Q1 2012 release marathon and are returning to our regularly scheduled posts every Thursday.

@EvanHutnick / XAML Team

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Telerik XAML controls Q1 2012 are here

the telerik blogs — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The latest Q1 2012 versions of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF are available for download under the users accounts:

RadControls for Siverlight Download

RadControls for WPF Download

You can check the release notes and the latest demos at:

RadControls for Silverlight Demos | Release Notes

RadControls for WPF Demos | Release Notes

There are 5 brand new controls that we included in this release:

As always we will greatly appreciate your feedback in our forums and support system.

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XAMLflix Marches On with RadScheduleView for Silverlight and WPF

the telerik blogs — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

It's Thursday again, which means we're ready for another installment of...

XAMLflix!

If you haven't tuned in over the last few weeks to our RadChartView and RadBarCode posts, my partner in crime (Michael Crump) and I have been working on a new initiative to help accelerate your education when it comes to the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF control suites. XAMLflix is intended to deliver quick, to-the-point videos highlighting features and functionality of our controls alongside sample projects with the exact code you are seeing in the videos. One step better, since our Silverlight and WPF controls derive from a common code-base and share a common API, each solution contains both a Silverlight and a WPF project so that regardless of which XAML platform you are using you can benefit from this series. So before you read on, make sure you've got the latest and greatest versions of our RadControls for Silverlight and WPF, because we're going to be...

Getting to Know RadScheduleView

If you haven't had the pleasure of using RadScheduleView, this series is just the right thing for you. Serving as a full re-write of our old popular RadScheduler control, RadScheduleView is built with performance and flexibility in mind to enable both simple and complex scheduling scenarios in your XAML applications. Without further delay, lets dive into what we have this week:

Getting Started with RadScheduleView - A quick walkthrough that introduces you to RadScheduleView, adding view definitions, and how to start working with Appointments. (Download the Project)
Using Custom Appointments - Diving a little deeper, we take a look at how you can implement a custom appointment type as well as how to modify the built-in templates to display your custom values within RadScheduleView. (Download the Project)
Adding Resources - One of the best things about RadScheduleView is complex support for adding resources to appointments. Here we take a look at how you can quickly and easily tap into this functionality by adding resources to your implementation. (Download the Project)
Implementing Resource Grouping - Building on what we learned in the last video, we see how we can enable complex grouping scenarios with our resources within RadScheduleView. (Download the Project - Same as Adding Resources since this builds on that project!)
Creating a Custom Resource Filter - Last but certainly not least, learn how a RadComboBox and a little bit of code can create a custom filter scenario for use with resources in RadScheduleView. (Download the Project)

Wrap-Up

So grab a cup of coffee, take these RadScheduleView videos for a spin, and don't forget to download your copies of the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF so you can run the samples. And of course, keep in mind that Q1 2012 Webinar Week is approaching quickly, so grab your seat to check out the latest and greatest across the full Telerik portfolio. Hope to see you there, and stay tuned for more XAMLflix next week!

@EvanHutnick

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WPF Evaluated Value Binding Using Converter Parameter

The Code Project Latest Articles — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A value binding converter for WPF....

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The Extended WPF Toolkit goes v1.5

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

For WPF Wednesday (I think Wednesday is going to be a kind of a rotating theme day... from WPF, to Web, "Wild" and Weird...) we're going to take another look at the Extended WPF Toolkit project. It's been nine months since we last looked at it, Today's toolkit time with the Extended WPF Toolkit and since then we've gotten a new version with a bunch of new controls.Also last time we didn't look at the cool sample app that's included in the source tree...Extended WPF Toolkit - Extended WPF Toolkit...

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Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Telerik!

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I have gotten to do a ton of really great things at Microsoft: I got to write a column on WPF and turn that column into not one, but two books. I got the excitement for every blog post in the first two years wondering if this was the one that was going to get me fired. (It was close a few times.) I got to throw several Developer Conferences (DevCons). I got to spin up a completely new community from scratch (Oslo). I got to stay up all night erasing the word WinFS from all of...

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Turning XAML into an image (jpg) in WP7 isolated storage and to the Phone Media Library

HackingSilverlight — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

So one thing that has been kind a trick since the old avalon then wpf days was to be able to can a snap shot of part of the visual tree and make that an image so that you can clean up the visual tree from some xaml complexity and replace it with a plain image. I ended up trying todo with with my princess paper dolls app and found that its not as straight forward as wpf used to be but this works well enough with only a few lines of code. To start with you need to covert the UIElement root you want...

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Share Link Task with Metrotube and Windows Phone 7

Nigel Parkers Outside Line — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The LazywormApps team down in Christchurch are a Microsoft BizSpark Start-Up and are one of the most successful Windows Phone 7 development companies in New Zealand. In the first year their LazyTube application achieved 184,346 downloads. Since then after 4 months of design, development and testing they have released the incredible new Metrotube application. In its first two weeks Metrotube became one of the top 20 paid WP7 apps in the US! After communicating with these guys since the launch...

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Adding Lua scripting to your .Net app or game

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

You've heard of Lua? The scripting language used in many games, like World of Warcraft? Wouldn't it be kind of cool to integrate Lua scripting into your .Net application? I thought so too...Integrate Lua into WPF GamesLua is a world-famous scripting language. It is a lightweight multi-paradigm programming language designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. In this article, we are to explore how to integrate Lua into C# applications, especially WPF games.1 Introduction...

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iOS UIPickerView-like control in WPF

The Code Project Latest Articles — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Sample code and walkthrough for creating a UIPickerView (the "tumblers" UI common on the iPhone) control in WPF....

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A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2)

The Code Project Latest Articles — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A control can be used to auto complete folders that have been typed into the textbox. Shows just how versatile binding and theming in WPF really is....

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The Top 5 WPF and Silverlight Gotchas

Simple Talk — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As WPF and Silverlight sit on the .NET framework, theyre subject to the rules of the Garbage Collector. That means there are a few unique ways in which WPF will cause your application to leak memory, and Chris Farrell points out the most prominent culprits....

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Dependency properties allow you to extend the properties and hence the behaviour of existing controls.This article shows how to code a simple dependency property class that will extend existing standa

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

How to use Dependency Properties to extend the behavior of existing standard controls. read more

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