I was just about to write the second blog post of the series, this time involving currying, the forward pipe operator and other functional programming beauties when two people discouraged me from doing it. First Mike from the WinForms team kindly implied that with functional C# programming I can get some permanent brain damages and I definitely won't keep my audience concentrated. Then came Joe Zydeco's comment to my previous blog post and I gave up. I don't know why people don't like functional C# programming but point taken, no more functional C# in my blog posts (for those of ...

Inspired by Scott Hanselman's quest to read source code to be a better developer I decided to start a series of blog posts and write about anything which comes to my mind in the everyday encountering with THE code here at Telerik. As Scott is doing a great job with his quest I would rather focus on topics in which the distinction between right and wrong is not clear enough. I'm not talking about starting flame wars but rather talking about all the aspects and the different pros and cons of each approach.

Today's topic will be about infinite loops ...

Recently both Paul Stovell and Joseph Cooney blogged about one very interesting topic - "Do people really need grid controls in WPF?". They're saying that people actually don't need grids in WPF and this is what makes their blog posts worth reading. Imagine if they had said the opposite: "People need grid controls for WPF!". It would have been quite boring and wouldn’t have spurred much of a discussion. For many people the idea of not having grids for WPF sounds unconventional but Paul made an interesting parallel to justify his claim "Using grids in WPF is like buying a ...

This week we are about to release a private CTP of RadControls for WPF. We will be sending the CTP build to all people who have previously requested WPF controls. If you still haven't requested WPF controls from our support or sales folks don't hesitate to drop them a line and we'll send you a build.

If you're reading regularly the Telerik blogs may be you haven't missed Vassil's post about the Show Off videos which we prepared for MIX 08.
In case you've watched carefully the "Telerik Resort Explorer" video you probably are asking yourself at least a couple ...

We have received several requests so far by customers who one way or another ask for the same thing: "Can you make your WPF controls in such a way that later when I convert my WinForms application (which use your WinForms controls) to WPF I wouldn't need to deal with different APIs and inconsistencies?".
 
In general, this could be achieved if we had:

• the same feature set in these two product lines
• the same API for our WinForms controls and WPF controls

The first point is feasible and we'll do our best to do it.
 
The second, however, ...

Well... I haven't blogged for so long that I almost forgot about this activity. One of my last posts was around the time we made "the big Bang release". It was so long ago (April 2007) that we spelled Rad as r.a.d. at that time. May be you remember that at that time there was a quest about the release and there was a forum thread about the quest. One guy (Mark Fitzpatrick) asked for RadPony. Well, we couldn't release a pony and it's still not sure it’s going to appear on the roadmap but somehow for me the ...

It looks like Microsoft is investing in Second Life and soon several events will take place on the Visual Studio island they're building.
This news isn't sensational but I like the idea.
A lot.

You can now register for the CTP release of our Silverlight controls and you'll soon receive an e-mail with instructions about where you can download the installation. The controls are using Silverlight 1.0 so all you need to have installed is the Silverlight 1.0 plugin and Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1.
We've added a MediaPlayer control to the set of controls with which you may have already got acquainted from our online examples.
Some of the cool features of the MediaPlayer control which you also may find intriguing are:
- Coming with three predefined themes: ...

Three days ago we made the biggest release so far in the history of Telerik. It was a very exciting moment for everyone on our team for a number of reasons:

• We released a whole new suite for ASP.NET AJAX (having the pompous codename "Prometheus").
• We released three major new controls for our WinForms suite - Grid, Treeview and Chart.
• We released the first version of Telerik Reporting, our new report generation engine.
• We offered as a download a 550+ page self-paced tutorial for our controls, the first such major learning tool
• We released everything on time

You know ...

Since we released the first version of our Windows Forms UI controls we've received quite a lot of questions about our plans for WPF. Basically the questions revolve around the following:
 - Is Telerik going to offer products for WPF?
 - When will they be public?
 - What controls will be included?
 
Most of you probably know the answer to the first question and is an unequivocal “Yes”! Even though there are some misconceptions that WPF is good only for displaying cool things on the sides of a rotating cube, we believe that even in its current form it ...