Yesterday at MIX 10 conference Microsoft announced the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Beta. The Silverlight Analytics Framework (SAF) is a new open-source framework to allow designers and developers to integrate web analytics into Silverlight applications in a consistent manner. Supporting out-of-browser and offline scenarios, Microsoft built this framework in conjunction with a number of web analytics services and control vendors to support multiple analytics services simultaneously without degrading application performance. Because the SAF is enabled as a set of behaviors in Microsoft Expression Blend, designers and developers can visually instrument their designs and configure A/B testing rapidly without writing ...

Our friends from SilverlightShow are running a Silverlight Eco Contest and are giving 3 passes for MIX10 in Las Vegas. Here’s an excerpt from their site:

"Considering the alarming consequences of climate changes, and the actions taken to promote and carry out environmental-saving activities worldwide, we would like to give our share and show the power that web applications have to convince, persuade, and spread the word!"

Telerik is sponsoring the contest - you can win a "Telerik Premium Collection for .NET". Unfortunately I will not be able to submit my own application  - I have the honor of being a judge in the ...

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We got a customer inquiry today about how to integrate the Telerik Silverlight Upload control within an ASP.NET MVC site. This is quite an interesting scenario, especially with the new Drag and Drop from the file system coming with our Silverlight 4 release in the mid-March.

I was not sure what should be done to run the SL upload in the MVC site. This was my first time experience with ASP.NET MVC 2 and it turned out to be a very pleasant and easy one. These are the steps that need to be followed:...

We are so excited with this release. It includes tons of new capabilities and features.What a platform! We are working with the new bits from a couple of weeks and very soon we will release our controls based on this platform.  Ofcourse first we will make a SL4 compatible drop of the controls and then we will start adding the new features.

Tim Heuer was the first to blog about the Silverlight 4 release. Check-out all the new features and tools that are coming on his perfect blog post:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

The official page for Silverlight 4 is also ready ...

Our biggest Silverlight release - Q3.2009 is now officially released. We added ten (yes ten!) new controls to the Silverlight suite:

1. RibbonBar 
2. TileView 
3. OutlookBar 
4. FluidContentControl 
5. Book 
6. TreeListView (CTP version)
7. Map (CTP version)
8. CoverFlow 
9. DropDown Button 
10. Split Button 

And not only this but we made significant performance improvements to the TreeView, TreeListView and GridView controls. Now these controls are using the new UI virtualization logic allowing them to display millions of records.

For a full list of changes please check our what's new page. You can check the online demos here, read the documentation ...

*UPDATE: This technique is outdated. You can now use the native Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer as of Q3 2009. Please see the updated approach.**

With the natural evolution of the Silverlight framework, people are demanding more and more from component vendors. One such request is to service the need to use Telerik Reporting in a Silverlight application. In this post you will see a solution that is very easy to use.

You can display the reports done with the Telerik Reporting product in your Silverlight application with just a single line of code. You need to create a Silverlight application with an ...

Silverlight 3 Beta for developers was unveiled at MIX09 last week. We created a separate build of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight3. Download the bits here (it is available in your client.net account under Downloads > RadControls for Silverlight > Latest Internal Builds).

There are no new features to the controls, only that they are compiled against the Silverlight 3 runtime. You can download the controls now and enjoy the latest features added to the Microsoft Silverlight3 platform.

Please note that Silverlight3 is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available. ...

It is official - the next version of Silverlight has been previewed today at, the sponsored from Telerik conference, MIX09 and is available for download now.

Silverlight just got better - major updates to the runtimes are:

• offline support
• validation framework
• page navigation framework ( much like our own Telerik RadPageNavigation framework)
• .NET RIA services framework
• GPU hardware 
• 3D, GPU acceleration, Animations
• SaveFileDialog
• Assembly caching
• Tools - Blend3 + VisualStudio Tools for Silverlight3

So far the best overview is provided by Tim Heuer - check his blog post about more details on what's new:

If you ...

Q1'09 was a huge release for the Telerik Silverlight controls - the Docking, GridView, Chart, MaskedTextBox, Toolbar, and ColorPicker controls are now official. We also shipped the first CTP of the rich text editor for Silverlight - RadEditor. If you missed - we also redesigned our demos application.

Not only we shipped all these new controls, but we also spent a lot of efforts to ensure that our themes are with top quality. For all the controls we shipped 3 themes - Vista, Office and Summer. We made the needed adjustments to ensure that they are editable in the ...

You know Telerik's commitment to provide cross platform Silverlight and WPF controls with shared code base.

Now that you have all those cross platform controls (more to come in Q1) - what is  the next step you need to do in order to have your application working in SL/WPF with a shared codebase? This is an easy question - you need to use the guidance provided from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft ofcourse :). There is now official documentation on msdn available.

Here is an extract from the project description from the codeplex site:

"The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to ...