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It would be great if there were a right-click menu option for custom Rad controls to "apply the theme to all sub-controls", similar to how Forms work.

I've attached images to illustrate the functionality.

Right now it only works for forms, and my custom controls have to be manually adjusted one at a time, by hand, which is time consuming and error prone.

It would save a lot of time and reduce the chance of missing a control when applying themes locally.

Right now the only way to apply themes is either globally or individually by hand, or with a find-replace-in-files command on the ThemeName property.

I am rewriting the RadGridViewPaste-mechanism. Therefor I want to call PastingCellClipboardContent-event using the EventDispatcher.CellClipboardPaste. therefor I need the class GridViewCellValueEventArgs. It has two constructors:

1. A constructor with indexes. If this one is used, properties RowInfo and Column will always be null.
2. A constructor which accepts a row and column as parameters. All properties are set and usable.

The second constructor is marked as Internal, not Public. 

Request: Can this constructor be made Public?

Hello,

Our product uses Infragistics controls. We have been in business for 21 years and since then we have been using Infragistics controls for WinForms. We would like to move to Telerik controls for WinForms, even though we already use Telerik controls for Blazor. Is there an easy way to convert them? Is there any plan to release a tool to convert them automatically? It will be very helpful and I am sure many companies are interested as well.   

Thank you

The version of Telerik products is requested as information where submitting a support ticket. In case one forgot the version currently installed, there is no way to find it (may be I am the only one who don't know). Usually most software provide such information in the "About" box. I found it difficult and not very useful that the "About" menu of Telerik connect to the Progress Home Page instead of displaying some useful information about the current installation (user name, version, installed components, license status, etc....). There are already many other actions (request support, online documentation, etc...) that connect to the web site. The "About" box should just be displayed within VS and provide information on the installation. Or at least you link it to the Progress Control Panel and adding a page for information I mentioned and more that user may need to know when needed.

Below is an example from VS.

The ChartLegendElement displays the legend items in a StackLayoutElement which can be either vertical or horizontal.

        public RadForm1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            Random rand = new Random();
            List<LineSeries> list = new List<LineSeries>();
            for (var index = 1; index <= 15; index++)
            {
                LineSeries ls = new LineSeries();
                ls.LegendTitle = "Series " + index;
                list.Add(ls);
            }

            for (int index = 1; index <= 100; index++)
            {
                foreach (LineSeries s in list)
                    s.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(index, rand.Next(0, rand.Next(5, 20))));
            }
            this.radChartView1.Series.AddRange(list.ToArray());
            this.radChartView1.ShowLegend = true;
            this.radChartView1.ChartElement.LegendPosition = LegendPosition.Bottom;
            this.radChartView1.ChartElement.LegendElement.StackElement.Orientation = Orientation.Vertical;
        }

Horizontal:

Vertical:

It would be good to provide an option for wrapping the legend items:

Workaround: use an appropriate container for the legend items to wrap the legend item and use the space more efficiently

https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/knowledge-base/chartview-wrap-legend-items 

Presently none of the controls can be navigated to using the TAB key or the shift TAB combination.

For example, in this picture I would like to be able to go from the Verdana font to the size 12 font using TAB key controls. I would like to be able to do this for all controls within the editor. I have asked support and presently this wouldn't be possible.

I'd like to have the merge columns mode, for example like TrueDBGrid (desing time)

It's fantastic, and there is the vertical alignment

I've tried all yours codes to emulate it but it's too slow if radgridview has a lot of rows.

Thanks

Hi All.

Could you please add or let me know locators for "RadChat" window for Automation purpose. I am unable to find locators on the below area.

Background: With many people having moved to working remotely, collaboration is a much larger part of any enterprise applications. As such, it would be highly beneficial to add real time collaboration capabilities to editor controls, more specifically the RadRichTextEditor control. It would work similarly to how MS Word works when more than one user is editing a document at the same time.

Scenario: Assume you have and WinForms application where there is a form that contains a RadRichTextEditor. The content for this control is populated from a centralized database. This content is editable by users of the application. Lets say that you have two users (User A and User B) editing this content at the same time. Currently, User A cannot see what User B is doing in real-time, and vice-versa. Each time one of the users saves the content, it will overwrite any changes made by the other user.

Desired outcome: If the users in the above scenario are using MS Word, each user would see that someone else is currently editing the document and the other user's changes would be displayed in real-time. This same outcome should be made more readily available with the Telerik editors, primarily the RadRichTextEditor, so that when two users are editing the same content, they would see each others' changes in real-time.

I know this is possible using SignalR and a bit of code, but I think it would be beneficial for the RadRichTextEditor to have better "out of the box" support for this feature.

I am aware of a web-based control that has this feature. Specifically, the CKEditor (https://ckeditor.com/) control has the features I am requesting. However, I am looking at WinForms as opposed to web.

The assembly is required for our RadMarkupEditor using the IE rendering engine. It allows you to specify HTML-like text formatting at design time in the Properties window of Visual studio:

Our clients can download different product files from their Telerik account:

https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/installation-and-upgrades/download-product-files 

Currently, when Digitally Signed Assemblies are necessary, they submit support tickets and the support engineers provide the signed assemblies. It would be nice to be directly uploaded to the Telerik account like the rest of the product files.

Currently, RadGridView offers GridViewImageColumn. However, it would be good to offer support for SVG images out of the box.  

One possible approach is to introduce a new property for the GridViewImageColumn - ImageDrawType = ImageDrawType.Svg that controls what kind of images this column will store.

Second approach is to introduce a new GridViewSvgImageColumn.

I would like to have a generic validation-mechanism, implemented in all controls. Hear me out:

A class ValidationInformation for containing all sort of validation information for a certain field, property, cell, etc. which has properties likes:

• Type DataType
• object MinValue
• object MaxValue
• int? MinLength
• int? MaxLength
• bool IsRequired
• RegEx Mask
• etc.

It also has a virtual method like bool Validate(object entity, object value, out string validationError).

A base class ValidationInformationProvider for retrieving validation information from various sources. It has some abstract methods for retrieval, storing/caching information per cell/field/property.

This base class has the following subclasses:

• ValidationInformationProviderFromDataTable
• ValidationInformationProviderFromAnnotations
• ValidationInformationProviderFromXXX

Each provider is responsible for reading validation information from the source (DataTable, annotations on a property, etc.) and fill a ValidationInformation object.

Now the fun begins...

Each Telerik class, like RadGridView and/or subcomponents should get a method or event to retrieve ValidationInformation. When the event is not handled or the method returns null, the default behavior kicks in.

When ValidationInformation is provided, default behavior is overridden. Properties of editors van be set with values from ValidationInformation (like Minimum and Maximum of a GridViewDecimalColumnPlus or RadSpinEditorElement). At the end if editing the method ValidationInformation.Validate is called to validate the new value. The validation error can be used for popups, or tooltips, or an exception. 

This way a user does not have to think where to set which property of any Telerik control for any validation. This way a RadPropertyGrid and RadGridView can work the same way when it comes to data validation, regardless of all editors which work in the background. 

This is about the following method:

        public void SetError(GridViewCellCancelEventArgs e, Exception exception)
        {
            GridViewDataErrorEventArgs args = new GridViewDataErrorEventArgs(exception, 0, 0, GridViewDataErrorContexts.Commit);
            if (e != null)
            {
                args = new GridViewDataErrorEventArgs(exception, e.ColumnIndex, e.RowIndex, GridViewDataErrorContexts.Commit);
            }
            this.EventDispatcher.RaiseEvent<GridViewDataErrorEventArgs>(EventDispatcher.DataError, this, args);

            if (args.ThrowException)
            {
                throw args.Exception;
            }

            if (args.Cancel)
            {
                //TODO: cancel row edit 
            }
        }

Right now, the method GridViewTemplate.SetError accepts a parameter of type GridViewCellCancelEventArgs, which in itself is weird, because event args should only be used inside events and OnXXX-methods. But since SetError fires an event, one could argue that this method is like a OnXXX-method.

But inside it becomes more weird, it translates GridViewCellCancelEventArgs into GridViewDataErrorEventArgs. And I must admit, the last DataError-args feel a lot more logical that CellCancel-args when firing setting an error. Furthermore, if I create an override of class GridViewCellCancelEventArgs to contain more data about an error, this information never reaches the event handlers.

So why this translation? Or better: Why this parameter?

My suggestion would be to make a new overload:

public void SetError(GridViewDataErrorEventArgs e)
{
    if (e == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(e));

        this.EventDispatcher.RaiseEvent<GridViewDataErrorEventArgs>(EventDispatcher.DataError, this, args);

        if (args.ThrowException)
                throw args.Exception;

        if (args.Cancel)
        {
                // TODO: I really do not know what telerik wanted to do here, so I live this up to Telerik.
        }
}