RadControls™ forWinForms
CASE STUDY

Nebras Technology saves 12 monthsof development time with Telerik
RadControls for WinForms whilebuilding groundbreaking radiology
remote diagnostic application.
Clinical imaging specialist Nebras Technology realized thattechnology could save lives by bringing remote diagnostics
to regions where skilled radiologists were thin on the ground.
Using Telerik RadControls for WinForms, Nebras createda groundbreaking application – while saving 12 months ofdevelopment time.

Overview
SECTOR
HealthcareRegion
EMEA
Customer Profile
Egypt-based Nebras Technology
develops information systems forhealthcare providers. Specializations
include radiology, endoscopy,dentistry and electrocardiography.
Challenge
Creating a rich, attractive userinterface was a critical factor in thedevelopment of a groundbreaking
remote-diagnostic tool forradiologists.
Solution
Nebras Technologies chose Telerik
RadControls for WinForms.
Benefits• Successful delivery of rich,high-performance application• Saving 12 months ofdevelopment timewww.nebrastech.com

By using the Telerik WinForms library, we were able todeliver new requirements fast, position our product in a different
category and be able to incorporate our most innovative ideas.”
Hesham Desouky,Development Manager, Nebras Technology

Telerik RadControls for
WinForms – productivity andperformance
The Telerik RadControls for WinForms
component suite is designed forthe creation of superfast, reliable
and feature-rich desktop and touch
applications. Leveraging years ofexpertise in interface development,
RadControls for WinForms frees
developers to focus on core logic bydelivering a comprehensive set ofhigh performance components andtools.
Inspired by WPF, RadControls
for WinForms support incredible
visual effects like transparency,
rotation, animation, and transition.
The controls enable developers
to transform data into interactive,richly animated and modern layouts,
empowering end-users to analyze
complex data.
Despite the rich visual effects,
RadControls for WinForms has been
crafted for high performance byminimizing the amount of repainting
and layout rearrangements needed.
All data controls, such as GridView,
TreeView and ListView feature
a powerful data engine, whichguarantees blazing fast data loading
and updates.
The RadControls Visual Studiointegration package boosts
developer productivity. The
Extensions automatically create,
upgrade and configure RadControls
projects in seconds, eliminating theneed to manually set any assemblyreferences. The WinForms Project
configuration wizards automaticallyhandle the dependencies between
the assemblies, avoiding version
conflicts and ensuring that the latest
version of RadControls is always
available.

Background
Nebras Technology creates
information systems for clinicalimaging. Covering radiology,endoscopy, dental andelectrocardiography, Nebras solutions
help medical staff manage diagnostic
data more efficiently, speeding
treatment and reducing cost.
Thanks to the falling cost oftechnology and government
healthcare initiatives, modern
imaging equipment is now moreaccessible than ever before, evenin remote locations. Patients whopreviously had to make long journeys
to central hospitals can now be
scanned at local clinics.
But while testing equipment is now
more available in remote areas,skilled radiologists are not. Nebras
Technology realized this bottleneck
could be eliminated by using modern
technologies to send images tospecialists for diagnosis. Specialists
then report back to local physicianswith recommendations for treatment.

The Challenge
To meet this need, Nebras
Technology set about creating
PaXtreme-Tele, a smart client
application for the company’s flagship
PaXtreme PACS Server radiology
management system.

The objective was to create anapplication which would enablespecialists to review patient images
using normal internet connections,and without the inconvenience of
VPN barriers.
From the outset, the user interface
was a key element of the application
design. With doctors expected touse the application for many hours
each day, it was a high priority todeliver an efficient and pleasant user
experience. However, the Nebras
team found it hard to achieve thedesired user experience.
“Due to the lack of suitable userinterface controls in open source or
standard controls from Microsoft,
we had difficulty implementing
various features,” says Hesham
Desouky, Development Manager andCofounder of Nebras Technology.
“Developing these controls fromscratch would have been time
consuming and would have increased
our product time to market.”
The Nebras team decided to look
for third-party controls. “Our key
requirements for a controls librarywere a complete control set, theme
support, good performance in realworld scenarios and strong support
with large community forums.”

The Solution
The Nebras team evaluated anumber of third party toolsets before
deciding to use Telerik RadControls
for WinForms.
“We initially found the Telerik
controls through Google,” says
Hesham. “When we dug deeper, wewere favorably influenced by the
discussions on stackoverflow.com
and the positive feedback on various
forums such as asp.net.”
Drawing on the extensive
documentation and community
resources for RadControls, theNebras team was able to get started
immediately.
“Telerik provides good
documentation, and the large
community forums and knowledge
base library with videos and blogs
enabled us to start using the controls
in our existing application easily.”
Extensive use of RadControls
for WinForms

RadControls for WinForms wereused throughout the PaXtreme-Teleapplication:• RadGridView: Using RadGridView
control to display large data-sets
was important for the Nebras
team. “We needed to be able todownload data in virtual mode anddisplay it in the grid on-demand,
according to the required records.

The grid provided us with a very
flexible APIs to implement thisscenario very easily.”• TelerikDock: This is the core of
the PaXtreme-Tele Image Manager
where the collection of scans foreach patient can be opened in its
own dock document. These canbe arranged by the user in tabs ordocks. The docking UI is also crucial
for the application’s Print Manager,
which enables radiology technicians
to perform film printing tasks
quickly and efficiently.
• RadCommandBar: Provides
toolbar functionality for the ImageManager. The capability to saveuser preferences for the order/
visibility of buttons made it possible
to provide user interface profiles foreach user.
• RadPageView: Display the patient
information card, especially using
the left aligned tabs.
• RadSplitContainer: Drives thePrinting Page layout wheretechnicians are able to specify
various printing layouts for images
with the ability to resize the image
boxes as desired before printing.
• Other controls used throughout
the application: RadMenu,RadForm, RadDropDownList,
RadDateTimePicker, RadTextBox,
RadLabel

Telerik RadControls for
WinForms – customizable andadaptable
By following WPF best practices, theTelerik Presentation Framework provides
a completely customizable architecture
for all RadControls. The uniform natureof the RadControls architecture makes
it possible to nest controls within one
another for more flexible and modernlooking user interfaces.
The Telerik Presentation Framework
supplies attractive defaults for thecontrols, while allowing developers to
exercise fine-grained, CSS-like control
over every aspect of their appearance
and behavior. This unique feature ofTelerik Controls for Windows Forms
makes it possible to achieve previously
impossible visual effects without
having to write any code or learn a newtechnology.
All Telerik Windows Forms controls
come with full theme support – use anyof the included themes, or build newones with the intuitive and unique Visual
Style Builder tool.
With the globalization of business, theneed for multi-lingual applications isa must. That’s why Telerik WindowsForms Dock supports all RTL languages,
such as Arabic. RadDock’s window
captions, drop-down menus andaction buttons (close, pin/unpin, etc)
are fully localizable through a simple
and intuitive localization provider, orthrough resources.

ThemingThe ResultThe Verdict

Look and feel was a key factor indelivering a successful application, asusers would be required to use it forhours each day.

The PaXtreme-Tele application wascompleted on time and on budget,and has already been implemented
for several customers across theMiddle East. Take-up has been strongin Egypt and the Gulf, starting with
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Using Telerik’s RadControls for
WinForms was critical to the successof the PaXtreme-Tele application.

“It was very important to us to beable to provide a nice experience
to users. The Telerik Theme Builder
provided us with the tools toimplement our theme set in a veryshort time.”
SCSF support

The Nebras team used the SCSF
Library in the creation of theapplication. “Telerik SCSF support
saved us a lot of time – we were able
to use controls such as Telerik Dock,
RadPageView and RadForm out ofthe box.”“The application’s ease of use –thanks to Telerik – has been a key
factor in attracting the attentionof radiology departments,” says
Hesham.
“We are now replacing old existing
software from other vendors invarious radiology centers. We
are attracting the interest of new
radiology centers, who want touse our product to empower their
imaging workflow and tele-radiology
capabilities.”“By using the Telerik WinForms
library, we were able to deliver new
requirements fast, position ourproduct in a different category andbe able to incorporate our mostinnovative ideas.” says Hesham.
“Telerik WinForms controls saved
us time to implement various UI
controls which would have required
more than 6-12 months for ourdevelopment team to implement.”

Find out more
About Nebras Technology
Egypt-based Nebras Technology develops
information systems for healthcare
providers. Nebras solutions are reliable,
easy to learn and use, very well supported
and realistically priced. Specializations
include radiology, endoscopy, dentistry
and ECG. “Since growth is a naturalconsequence of success, we build scalable
products that can continue to meet yourneeds as your business grows.”
About Telerik RadControls forWinForms
RadControls for WinForms includes over
60 UI controls designed to make it easy tobuild visually appealing, high performanceLine of Business and Metro applications.

Boasting a well-designed architecture,
touch capabilities, support for Visual
Studio 2012 and CAB, Telerik WindowsForms Controls are perfectly suited forthe most demanding Enterprise desktopdevelopment.

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